Your blood is your internal radiator. But if it’s pooling in your core, your extremities freeze. You need to trick it into flowing.
Do a few gentle stretches in bed. Point and flex your feet. Circle your ankles. Shake your hands like you’re drying wet nail polish. This takes 15 seconds. The payoff? Toes that don’t feel like tiny icebergs.
Even better: jump up and down for 30 seconds before you get in. I know, it’s effort. But it’s less effort than shivering for an hour.
3 Ways to Keep Warm in Bed - wikiHow Health
The Head and Neck Secret
You lose a shocking amount of heat through your head and neck. That’s because blood vessels close to the skin there are greedy heat leakers.
Solution? A beanie. Or a hoodie. Or a scarf. Wear a wool hat to bed, and you instantly feel 5°F warmer. Yes, you look a bit like a Victorian chimney sweep. But you’ll be a warm Victorian chimney sweep.
And don’t forget your neck. A thin fleece neck gaiter feels weird at first. But after five minutes, it’s pure bliss.
