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Why Warm Feet Equals A Good Night's Sleep

Bed socks for sleeping problems, mobile doctors in Sri Lanka and dough therapy

Bed socks for sleeping problems, mobile doctors in Sri Lanka and dough therapy. A report on how bed socks could cure insomnia. Research has shown that cold feet could keep us awake and that keeping feet warm could lull us into producing more of the sleep hormone melatonin. Also in the programme a look at how Sri Lankans are being urged to give up brushing their teeth with twigs by mobile workers and dough as aromatherapy.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project