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BEDROOMS

Deep sleep is

essential for

good health

Crown Jewel mattress
offers advanced features

for ultimate sleep comfort

ou may have heard it’s important During this stage your body continues of sleep, Sealy South Africa is proud to
to get around eight hours of sleep to relax, your brain waves are much introduce the Crown Jewel mattress.
Yeach night, but what most people slower with short periods of activity, The Crown Jewel features an exclusive
don’t know is the quality of sleep matters your eye movements stop and your body zoned-support system that provides extra
as much as how long you sleep. temperature drops. support exactly where you need it the
Throughout the night you go through Stages 3 and 4- These stages are most. Four distinct support zones are
different stages of sleep. There are four considered deep sleep stages. It’s where provided by Sealy’s Embrace Coil system
stages of sleep: your body is in the deepest state of and an array of five different foam and
Stage 1- This is when your body starts relaxation and brain waves are at their gel layers. The result is better posture
to relax. Your breathing and heartrate slowest. throughout the night and an end to the
slow down. Your muscles relax and your Stage 5- This last stage is REM aches and pains that can come from poor
brain waves begin to slow down. (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, when spinal alignment while sleeping.
Stage 2- This stage encompasses half of you sometimes have vivid dreams Most of us know what it’s like to
your sleep cycle. You fall into this stage accompanied by fast and/or irregular suffer aches in our joints and back after
of sleep more than any of the others. breathing, changes in body temperature sleeping on mattresses that feel perfect
and twitching in body and limbs. at first. Sealy has solved that problem by
You cycle through these various stages designing a mattress that’s truly built for
of sleep throughout the night, and your the human body. The extra support is
body stays in deep sleep the longest subtle enough that you won’t notice any
during the first few cycles, but as the difference from a traditional mattress, but
night progresses the deep sleep cycle gets by morning, your body will have felt the
shorter. Deep sleep facilitates several difference. And it feels great.
processes in the body. During deep sleep, The Crown Jewel also extends its usable
the brain metabolizes glucose which helps area right out to its edges through its
with memory and overall learning. These StableEdge system. The mattress’s gently
are the other benefits of deep sleep: it reinforced sides won’t sag when you sleep
promotes growth and repair of tissues and or sit on them, and two rows of special
bones, cells regenerate, strengthens the Quantum Edge coils provide further end-
immune system, increases blood supply to-end support.
to the muscles, and restores energy. All of this engineering and
Deep sleep is what allows you to wake craftsmanship comes in an affordable
up refreshed, and if you’re sleeping on package. Sealy even designed the Crown
an uncomfortable mattress or your sleep Jewel’s manufacturing process for
environment isn’t optimal (i.e., too light, optimum efficiency, and the savings show
too warm/cold, etc.) it’s unlikely that in the mattress’s retail price.
you’re getting as much of this regenerative If you’re waking up tired all the time,
sleep as you need. Deep sleep and a even after getting the right amount of
comfortable mattress are undeniably sleep, you may need to consider your
linked, and a good quality mattress is the mattress as the culprit. A good mattress
best investment you can make toward supports your body and allows it to relax
regenerative sleep. For South Africans and fall into a deep sleep. dw
who are smart with their money but
uncompromising about their quality www.sealy.co.za

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