You're overthinking your insomnia, knock down the basics first.

INSIGHT

Poor sleep is often a result of the inability to self-regulate to temperature.

Paramount for metabolic health, brain function and overall sanity, sleep is obviously one of those pillars of health that cannot be ignored. Yet it is one of the most difficult areas for individuals to regulate with busy lifestyles, floodlit environments, imbalanced hormonal cycles and the general reverence placed on wakeful productive hours in our modern culture. Sleep essentially allows us to clear the waste of our brain caches — with brain cells actually shrinking up to 60% to promote clearance up to two times faster than when we’re awake — which is why you feel refreshed with mental clarity after a restful sleep. But the cost of not doing this daily creates sleep debt, cumulating to system breakdowns in various places and pretty much conditioning your body to manage long bouts of being awake but operating at lower levels of performance. And of course the deep irony that we’re losing sleep thinking we’re getting more done. Though a complex area of study and practice, new science is coming out that much can be fixed with temperature regulation alone — kind of the 80/20 of sleep remedies — making sure the body falls between 18-22 degrees Celsius. This key drop in temperature signals the body that it’s time not only to induce sleep but to help the body sleep through the night as it goes through different regulatory processes that don’t happen during the day. So before you start applying the dozen or so tips offered from acquaintances or specialists on their magic sleep aids and pills, try this fundamental option of regulating your environment to induce sleep . As sleep medicine surfaces more important principles, the way we design for sleep will take on exciting non-medicated approaches to improving our sleep that are designed from what the body needs, rather than the state we’d like to momentarily enforce.

INSPIRATION

Tanda Mattresses

Tanda mattresses incorporate a revolutionary temperature regulation option for individual needs. With innovative fabric technology for breathable comfort and hug-ability, the mattress and pillows use a type of foam that is responsive to minimize heat retention.

• ATROS pulls cool air from the room and onto the mattress

• Body heat emits and triggers cooling

• Csensation is transferred to your body

• Body temperature regulates to help fall asleep faster

INNOVATION

“The Roller” Pillow

A smart pillow that regulates your core body temperature to lull you into REM and deep sleep at the right times during the night.

• This smart pillow technology comes with calibrating temperature sensing instructions to learn your natural core body temperature throughout the day and works to bring your body temp down to the right degree to signal your brain it’s time for sleep, telling the hypothalamus it’s time to produce melatonin.

• Usually more stifled in our armpit and groin region, we naturally like to “hug” pillows to dissipate some of that heat. Roller is designed to read body temperature in these regions just by a 10 second hold -- like a pillow thermometer.

• A liquid filled core and sensor-monitored fabric reads your body temperature and that of the surrounding environment to determine how much the pillow needs to cool/warm you to get you in the right range for your biology to signal you to sleep.

• Roller also calibrates to your wake up time and can act as a temperature-controlled alarm so you can slowly rise without being jarred by sound, waking up naturally by being lulled awake by temperature changes the way the body was designed to rise.

• Travel-friendly "roll-ability", this neck-cradling pillow assists in proper cervical spine support -- something difficult to achieve in the fluffy pillow norms of hotels.