Category: FAQs

You can’t talk about sleep without talking about melatonin. Melatonin is the precursor to sleep and is responsible for that feeling you get when sleep is near. It’s also what keeps you asleep until your body naturally runs out and begins to prepare you for wakefulness.  Melatonin does help you sleep.…

While a mattress may feel comfortable and allow you to sleep like a dream during the first few months or years, after a while, the upper layers often start to show some wear. When they start to sag, they don’t offer as much support, and you won’t sleep as well.…

Sleep is critical for human survival. It contributes to both your physical and your mental health, and when you fail to sleep enough, your brain suffers. You’ll feel sleepy the next day, and you’ll be unable to concentrate at work. Eventually, you may develop memory loss, your stress levels rise…

You may have heard about the various sleep stages and that REM (Rapid Eye Movement sleep) is one of them. Enhancing our mind-functioning abilities, REM is a critical stage within the sleep cycle. As crucial as it is, how much REM sleep do you need? In this article, we’ll broaden…

Wearing blue light glasses may be the fastest growing health trend, and with any health trend comes the debate of helpful vs fad—especially with sleep.  When you struggle mightily with sleep, falling for another fad is disheartening. And with a billion-dollar industry that’s always flaunting its next magic trick, skepticism is…

At the center of health and well-being is good sleep. We need sleep to rejuvenate our bodies, to boost our immune system, and to consolidate short-term memories into long-term ones. We need it for the release of human growth hormone and for the brain to clear out harmful toxins. Without…

Experiencing back pain? You’re not alone: about 84% of adults face lower back pain at some point in their lives. But it’s important to get to the root and figure out what’s causing your lower back pain, rather relying on painkillers that only relieve the ache for a little while.  Why…

You might think of a mattress as a very simple piece of furniture. You place it on a bed frame or box spring, throw a few sheets on top, and you’re ready to sleep. Right? Wrong. While things might have been simpler a few decades ago, the vast range of mattress…

Are you concerned that you talk in your sleep? Perhaps someone told you that you mumbled some incomprehensible gibberish during the night. Or that you burst out laughing, engaged in a several-minute-long monologue, or even screamed out loud! Yikes! Maybe you have a child who frequently talks while sleeping? Is talking…