Could ASMR help pregnant women?

ASMR Autonomous Sensory Meridian ResponseYou bet.  It can be a challenge for pregnant women to fall asleep each night, especially in the third trimester.

Why is that?

Put a small animal under your shirt and try to fall asleep.

Point made.

Hence, pregnant women often suffer from poor sleep.  So perhaps listening to ASMR audio could help them to fall asleep.

And pregnant women who get more sleep may be less likely to have children that grow up to be overweight.

That seems like a pretty bold statement.  Is there recent research to support that?

Sorta. Continue reading

Can ASMR help you to have less toxins in your brain?

ASMR Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response UniversityYes, but not directly.

If ASMR helps you to get more sleep then that could result in less toxic chemicals in your brain, in a way that I will explain shortly.

Was this research done with ASMR and humans?  Nope, it was just done with sleep-deprived non-human animals.

Which animals exactly?

Curiously, the news article that I linked to at the end of this post did not say what species.  Mice or rats are a good guess though.

Where was the research done?  At the Metropolitan Autonomous University.

“Autonomous” University?!  Say what-huh.

Am I messing with you?   Continue reading