{"id":35854,"date":"2026-09-27T19:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/doing-these-5-stretches-before-bed-could-help-you-fall-asleep-faster\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:37:37","slug":"doing-these-5-stretches-before-bed-could-help-you-fall-asleep-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/doing-these-5-stretches-before-bed-could-help-you-fall-asleep-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing These 5 Stretches Before Bed Could Help You Fall Asleep Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re looking to get a good night\u2019s sleep, you might want to stretch before climbing into bed.<\/p>\n

Gentle stretching<\/a> can stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, which gets us into the \u201crest-and-digest\u201d mode that\u2019s ideal for dozing off, says Andrea Matsumura, MD,<\/a> a board-certified sleep medicine physician and spokesperson for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine based in Portland, Oregon. \u201cIt helps to release neurotransmitters like acetylcholine that really help to relax us,\u201d she says. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that carry signals from one nerve cell to another; acetylcholine slows the heart rate and promotes sleep.<\/p>\n

Stretching can also encourage sleep<\/a> by releasing muscle tension.\u00a0\u201cIf you’re more comfortable in your body, you’ll be able to transition from being awake to being asleep quicker,\u201d says Dana Rose, DPT,<\/a> a physical therapist at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re looking to get a good night\u2019s sleep, you might want to stretch before climbing into bed. Gentle stretching can stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, which gets us into the \u201crest-and-digest\u201d mode that\u2019s ideal for dozing off, says Andrea Matsumura, MD, a board-certified sleep medicine physician and spokesperson for the American Academy of Sleep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":35855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[36,4570],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-mixtv","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}