In the United States created a mattress for falling asleep quickly
Inadequate sleep causes: daytime fatigue, a feeling of tension, irritability, frequent mood changes, decreased performance, difficulty concentrating.
Engineers from the University of Texas at Austin have created a mattress with a set of electronic components that analyzes a person's condition and makes its temperature as comfortable and relaxing as possible for a person. Newatlas tells about it.
The article says that due to temperature fluctuations, the mattress quickly causes a feeling of drowsiness, and also plunges the user into a deep sleep.
A series of tests showed that with a smart mattress, volunteers fall asleep about 58% faster than without it.
Scientists explained that the level of alertness and sleepiness of a person is partly determined by the biological clock. This process is accompanied by changes in temperature in different parts of the body. Scientists decided to use this fact to create a system that tells the body when it's time to fall asleep.
The mattress is a kind of manipulation, when the body believes that the temperature of the surrounding space is higher than it is, the article says.
Scientists said that the mattress consists of several layers that do not heat up evenly.
The neck, arms and legs of users are slightly heated to increase blood flow to dissipate heat, while the torso is cooled for an additional relaxing effect, they said.
In a series of experiments, scientists asked 11 subjects to use a mattress on a specific schedule. On some days, volunteers went to bed two hours earlier than usual, and on others, at a convenient time for them. The study showed that in all cases, the mattress accelerated the process of falling asleep - by an average of 58%. At the same time, the temperature of the mattress played an important role in the rate of falling asleep.
Note that sleep is a natural biological process necessary for the restoration of our body. During sleep, many systems are updated: nervous, immune, skeletal, muscular.
Sleep disorder provokes a decrease in the overall protective properties of the body due to the death of immune cells. Failures in the work of organs and systems (gastrointestinal tract, nervous and endocrine systems, respiratory organs, etc.)