Question:

Does Your Mattress Affect How You Sleep?

Answer: Yes.
Possibly the least thought about piece of furniture in your house is your bed and the mattress that sits upon it, but the fact is that your mattress may have the greatest impact on your day to day health. Your mattress has the ability to either to encourage good quality healthy sleep or deprive you of it.

So how do you feel when you wake up in the morning?

Do you wake refreshed or worn down? Is your night full of restlessness, tossing, and turning? These can be signs of an improper or unsupportive mattress. Even worse the lack of sleep can weaken our immune system. If your mattress is so bad that it actually keeps you awake night after night your sleep neurons could potentially malfunction. Lack of sleep has been known to cause inability to focus, difficulty remembering, and even work quickly and efficiently. Other results of a how a mattresses can affect your sleep is waking up more tired than you went to bed and feeling stiff or sore after a night’s sleep. Lack of sleep can potentially lead to serious Illness or even disease.

Probably the most important lesson we can take from all this is that sleep is important and even more importantly we encourage you to listen to the signs, the signs that your current mattress is no longer up to the task of comforting and supporting you. Your body will thank you.

Why Memory Foam Mattresses May Be Bad For Sex

While memory foam mattresses receive high praise for pressure relief, comfort, and support some couples say their memory foam mattress has come between the most intimate moments in their bedroom while others praise them. So why an article about Why Memory Foam Mattresses May Be Bad For Sex? Because cost of these beds can be high and so can expectations of what such a great mattress for sleep could do to enhance the actions under the sheets.

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There is something to be said for having the correct mattress, but not just for sleeping. Let’s face it mattresses are also for enjoying those most intimate of moments with our partner as well and the right mattress can definitely add to or take away from the sexual experience. Passionate love making and yes even crazy wild kinky sex can be troubling for some couples looking to cash in on the most popular of mattresses. The passion and the pleasure of the moment can be outweighed by the limitations of a memory foam mattress that only seems to work against them.

The body can end up in a bad position

Originally memory foam itself was built around the idea of eliminating pressure which sounds comforting. The best example is the one we have all have heard, “the NASA designed story”, which is often over hyped by stores like myself but however is completely relevant. Memory foam mattresses as hyped may be fantastic at taking the pressure away from the person, but think about the person positioned on the bottom for just a moment. What sounds comforting may not always be especially when you add the weight of a second person. The additional weight forces the bottom person deeper into the mattress tilting the hips downward. It can not only make love making more difficult, but can also hyper-extend the lower spine putting unwanted strain on the lower back. Some couples add pillows to correct the problem, and there lies a potential additional problem of the disruption.

Memory foam does can’t keep the beat

Memory foam unlike coil springs can interfere with a couple’s natural rhythm, the big reason is that visco elestastic foam is an energy absorbing material. Memory foam used in mattresses can either be slow reacting which may take several seconds to bounce back to its original position or quick recovery which responds more immediately. The fact is both types of foam have a varying speed of response and recovery that never varies regardless of weight, changed rhythm, etc.  Neither have the springiness, rapid recovery time, or the springiness of a steel coil spring or a latex rubber mattress, the two beds that are often touted as the best mattresses for sexual intercourse.

Heat an issue?

While some memory foams do sleep hot or build up heat after a prolonged position there are newer materials that wick away the heat with the use of infused gel similar to that of bicycle, motorcycle, wheel chair seat cushions. Others don’t use gel but simply breathe better because of good ventilation in the design that dissipates heat rather than letting it build up and get trapped.

Summation about sex on a memory foam bed

While the memory mattress may have its issues understand that there is no perfect mattress that can be everything to everybody in the love making department and the sleep department. Determine your mattress needs for not only sex but sleep and proper body support throughout the night. While these may be harsh criticisms they don’t affect everyone in the same way which is why Tempurpedic and other similar memory foam mattress companies are still one of the bestselling mattress products sold and continue to grow.

Flippable by design that was how virtually all mattresses used to made. It was a time when you could use both sides of a mattress and it seemed liked they lasted forever. Two sided mattresses began to fall out of favor about the same time new fire safety regulations came into play. The new stringed testing forced manufacturers to come up with new and creative ways to comply with the safety tests. They were also trying to keep mattress prices as low as possible and competitive. This new way of building beds was now forcing people to purchase mattresses in a way they were not a accustomed to, one sided and non flippable.  It was just a matter of time before mattress companies would realize their was still a market for people who preferred the old style mattress you can turn over and use both sides but are these really better? Today’s topic Reversible Mattress Both Sides Of The Story will detail the differences that you’ll want to know before buying your next mattress set.

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Are today’s new two sided beds as good as the ones of the past?

While they are 2 sided, for the most part these luxury sleeping surfaces are not built in the same way they were 30, 20, or even as recent as 10 years ago. A person only needs to lift today’s mattress to realize the weight is significantly different. The reason? Less steel. Steel is what made the old mattress sets last for so many years and today mattress builders are using a lot less of it. They do this to keep both wholesale costs under control for them and retail costs down for the consumer.

Mattresses 20 and 30 years ago also didn’t use layer upon layer of polyurethane foam, polyester fiber, and comfort padding materials. Beds were relatively thin which kept settling of the materials to a minimum. While many don’t talk about it the early 1990′s is when the problems of bad body impressions began to rear their ugly heads. These beds were still relatively heavy and they were double sided, but the addition of extra thick padding and “comfort layers” was a definite weakness that would forever change how long mattresses would last.

Today’s two sided beds are different.

While modern 2 sided mattresses can be turned over, they are light weight from weak fluffy foam and minimal amounts of hardened steel. For people that want a double sided mattress they will get what they asked for. What they won’t get is the bed they bought 30, 20, or even 10 years ago that lasted ten plus years. The advantage is that a person can still turn, flip, and regularly rotate their mattress for more even wear. The newer two sided mattresses short comings is this, the lack of good bones and the lack of heavy duty building materials. We still like two sided beds for the reasons we mentioned and feel they are still a better value than most one sided mattresses with coil springs. While they won’t last ten years they are still  longer than the majority of one sided beds built today and they still give consumers more bang for their mattress dollars.

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Your new mattress is so tall you are going to need a step ladder…

to get into it.  Is there anything you can do? Of course there is. When there is a need manufacturers fill it and lowering the height of a mattress and boxspring or sometimes called foundation to a more normal reasonable height is a very doable request. These manufacturers build low profile frames and low profile foundations which can lower the bed as much as 8 1/2 inches. Today we put them up against one another the Low Profile Frame vs Low Profile Foundation and the pros and cons of each.

How tall do beds normally sit?

The typical free standing metal bed frame that a foundation sits upon is 7 1/2 inches tall. Add to that a 9 inch box foundation plus a 13 inch thick mattress and the overall height is 29 1/2 inches from the floor to the mattress top. Beds that have wood side rails that hook into headboards and footboard more often than not are even taller since they typically sit higher than a free standing metal frame at 9 inches or more of the floor. So what about a low profile frame and low profile foundation can they help?

Advantages and Disadvantages of a Low Profile Frame

Low profile frames can free stand and even bolt up to a headboard, and there are even models that a footboard can be added. Other frame models can hook in and replace wood side rails at the same time lowering the support system of the bed. There is typically an average loss of clearance under the bed of about 3 1/2 inches making storage under the bed less possible especially with free standing frames that bolt up. The advantage to all of these Low profile metal bed frames is that they are very inexpensive compared to boxsprings. They can also be easily shipped UPS or FedEx or picked up in a car.

Advantages and Disadvantages of a Low Profile Foundation or Boxspring

Low Profile Foundations or Box Springs are the base support system that sits directly under the mattress. These are nifty little inventions that solve the problem of mattress sets sitting way to high. The average low boy foundation sits 4-5 inches lower than it does at its traditional or normal bed height. The down fall to these bases is that cost can be quite a bit more than a low profile bed frame. They are much more expensive to have shipped and rarely fit in anything but a large vehicle like a pickup truck.

Need to really lower the bed a lot?

We recommend using both the low profile frame and the low boy foundation it is a combination that lowers the bed typically 7-8 inches. That is a significant drop.  This can make beds easier to climb into and out of and it can also make them safer. Whether you use one or the other or both. There is a system that can take care of your problem on a budget that is affordable.

Low Profile Frame vs Low Profile Foundation Which do you prefer? One, the other, or both?

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Got the top but missing the bottom?

Many people have a good headboard, frame, and mattress but are looking to change things up a bit. Make the waterbed taller or add drawers, you know the  base or the bottom portion for underneath a waterbed.  These days it is hard to find a local waterbed bed store that has a selection much less anyone who sells them. Don’t worry there is good news. There are still plenty of stores selling them and they can help you with your bed height or extra storage needs.

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