Chris: Yeah.
Okay, thank you, Lee.
Anonymous says, "Causes for night sweats in men."
Any thoughts on that?
Carrie: Oh.
Well, it can be hormonal just like it can be for women.
I test all the same hormones in men.
I check their thyroid with night sweats.
I definitely even check the same thing.
I check cortisol and I do norepinephrine markers with night sweats.
This is also assuming that I don't suspect cancer because night sweats can be a key note,
especially in men, night sweats can be a key note for cancers, and so I want to make sure
I'm not suspicious of that.
But it's to say for women, blood sugar issues, hormone issues, cortisol issues and making
sure you're not sleeping in an extra hot room because men can get their night sweats from
being overheated just like women can, sort of those basic things too.
Chris: I just got a chiliPAD.
I've been thinking about that.
Carrie: I've been wanting to try one.
What do you think?
Chris: I've been thinking about getting a chiliPAD for years.
I went to a little conference where the guy who invented the chiliPAD was there, and he
let me borrow one for the night, and I bought the chiliPAD.
In fact, if I were any of you, I would not buy the chiliPAD.
I would pre-order the Ooler which is their new model that's shipping in June.
But I wanted it so badly that I bought the chiliPAD with the intention to buy the new
model when it comes out in June.
But in the new model, you're going to be able to control from the app.
It's at least hour by hour.
It might be minute by minute when you want the temperature to go up and down.
There's a warm to wake function.
It just gradually increases in warmth by leading up to when you want to wake up, which ties
in nicely with the data from a few years ago showing that in hunter-gatherers who sleep
outside, they wake up before the sunrise with the increase in core temperature, which is
driven by the increase in the ambient temperature as you near sunrise.
That is the key trigger for the waking.
That's a natural function in it.
Also, I think there's a lot of people who sleep much better at a temperature that is
colder than the temperature that they fall asleep at.
Carrie: I totally agree.
Chris: You can't currently make the timing function with the current model, the chiliPAD.
But with the one that's coming out in June, you will be able to and you'll be able to
set it so that it goes to maybe like 65 or whatever feels comfortable to you.
Actually, you can warm it to 110.
Carrie: Wow.
Chris: Yes.
You could have it.
If 75 is comfortable to you when you're falling asleep, then you can have it so that 20 minutes
later, it goes down to 55 which is not the temperature that it feels like the room is.
It's the temperature of the water circulating and it's like ambient temperature.
Like 64 is my best temperature to sleep at.
But I keep the chiliPAD at 55.
But what I noticed was I will usually have complete insomnia at anything above 72-ish.
I have great difficulty at 70, and 72, 74 is the threshold where I just will not fall
asleep.
I can have my room as hot as 80 and sleep well if the chiliPAD is set at 55.
I'm really excited about that for the summer because I think it's much less stress on the
air quality to not have to run the air conditioner as much.
Also, the way my room is set up, it's really hard to have the AC on and not having it blow
on me while I'm in bed.
Yeah, I'm just superexcited about it.
Carrie: I wrote it down.
Chris: I got to throw it out there if you're going to bring up the room temperature for
the night sweats.
Carrie: Absolutely.