If your teen wants to stay up all night and sleep all day, don’t blame them -- blame biology. The body’s circadian rhythm, its natural internal clock, begins to change as individuals enter into the teen years. The hormone melatonin, which helps people to feel sleepy, starts being released later at night as they mature. This makes it harder for teens to get to sleep at an early hour -- and harder to get up on time for school!

For as long as springs or coils have been used in mattresses (around 150 years), you’d think there wouldn’t be many questions or any debate about these curved steel wires. But alas, there’s a plethora of information out there about mattress coils intended to convince you of the virtues of innerspring but unfortunately has also confused many people.

We’re kicking off our Mattress Facts series to explore amazing graphene. This is the first of three articles that will explore a mattress component that we have knowledge about because we use it in our factory. It’s intended to share interesting and useful information about materials or production processes, not to sell you products. Enjoy Mattress Facts on us, and not about us.

This time of the year can be overwhelming for many of us and easy to let the busyness of the season chip away at good wellness practices that we might normally have. There is a simple exercise that we can do anywhere, anytime for even just a few minutes at a time. Breathing.

Sleep. The most underrated component of the healthy lifestyle trifecta. Diet and exercise have received most of the attention for a very long time. Yet sleep is the easiest and arguably most impactful and sustainable way to ensure good health and overall wellness.

Many factors influence how we sleep.

When our sleep cycle gets disrupted, it can be hard to pinpoint the cause -- and it’s quite possible that there is more than one reason. A broken sleep cycle is basically our circadian rhythm off track.