Dhaka, July 23 -- A new research has suggested that one can fall asleep quicker and experience better quality sleep if a hot water birth is taken 90 minutes before bedtime. Biomedical engineers at University of Texas-Austin reached this conclusion after analysing thousands of studies linking water-based passive body heating, or bathing and showering with warm/hot water, with improved sleep quality, reports The Indian Express.

"When we looked through all known studies, we noticed significant disparities in terms of the approaches and findings," said Shahab Haghayegh, lead author on the paper.

"The only way to make an accurate determination of whether sleep can, in fact, be improved was to combine all the past data and look at it through ...