| Everybody has a natural sleeping pattern of warming and cooling cycles. For example,
mostly every body cycles a warmer trend from about 2:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Then the body
starts its cooling off cycle. By the time a body reaches the coolest temperature, it is
around 2:00 a.m. At this point, the mind and body rests and sleeps better when cooler. Most
people are aware of the importance of rapid eye movement sleep, commonly known as R.E.M.
This is very important to each of us. But most people aren't aware of benefits of pre- and
post- R.E.M. sleep. The pre- and post- R.E.M. sleep is where the body fully relaxes and
rests. This is where the natural fibers can help you "sleep like a baby."
Sleeping on a foam or synthetic fiber mattress will retain body heat and act like an oven.
This will raise the body temperature and make sleep lighter. People will have a tendency
to kick off the covers when they are too hot. Then, during the night, they will get colder
and get up to get the covers. This disturbs the pre- R.E.M. sleeping pattern.
By sleeping on natural fibers, moisture will be wicked away, which will help keep the
body at a more even temperature. This will help you get a better night's rest and stay in
the R.E.M. sleep cycle longer. Another
benefit of natural mattresses is that they can last longer. For
example, when we weighed one of our natural beds 20 years
later, not including the cover, it lost about 2 pounds over the 20
years: from 60 pounds to 58 pounds. When you weigh a foam and dacron bed
after 10 years, it's weight is cut in half: from 20 pounds to approximately
10 pounds. And most of this material is inhaled while people are sleeping.
The age of synthetics, for the past 50 years, generated bedding products
which do not 'breathe.' Optimal sleeping conditions provide a breathable surface
to the sleeper. Natural fibers are breathable. Synthetic fibers are basically
not. Synthetic fibers, therefore, do not benefit from sunning and airing. They
are instead, gradually destroyed by these elements while natural fibers benefit
from them. |
