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Why Memory Foam Is The Best Type Of Mattress

After a tiring day, nothing feels better than having to sleep comfortably at night. While you can always set the mood for your bedroom to help you achieve a comfortable ambiance, your mattress plays an important role in how you can achieve peaceful sleep.  
There are plenty of types of mattresses that you can choose from. However, going for a memory foam would always ring a bell, as it’s widely popular for its benefits to every sleeper. Moreover, below are some reasons why memory foam is the best type of mattress:  
Perfect For All Sleeping Positions 
Everyone has a favorite sleeping position. If you’re having a hard time finding the perfect mattress that allows you to comfortably sleep when you lay on your back, side, or stomach, going for a memory foam mattress would be the best option for you. The memory foam’s material adjusts well with your body weight and will try to give you adequate support that your body needs. Pair it with an electric adjustable bed for optimum results. This will help for proper spine alignment, which is essential for every sleeping position.  
If you’re sharing a bed with your spouse, partner, or children, going for a memory foam mattress would be the best option for you. This will help to eliminate any debates about any specific mattress firmness as the memory foam can handle everything in a single piece. Everyone can sleep comfortably without compromising one sleep position with memory foam mattresses. 
Provides Good Body Pressure 
Your main goal is to wake up feeling refreshed and ready to start the day right when you sleep at night. However, if you’re going with a firm or soft mattress, it might develop painful pressure points to your knees, back, neck, shoulders, and hips, making you wake up with terrible pain and affecting your body’s mobility. This can really be frustrating, especially if you need to move for the entire day.  
With a memory foam mattress, you can put your worries away as it eliminates any possible body pressure pain since it distributes the pressure well and evenly across your body. This will provide a balanced delivery of pressure points, allowing you to wake up well-rested every morning. Moreover, your body pain might have a higher temperature which your memory foam captures easily, focusing its support on that area, allowing you to wake up a lot better.  
Lessens Back And Neck Pain 
Having a memory foam mattress will help your body feel less back pain after long hours of sleep. The foam is adaptable to your body, supporting your entire body evenly. No matter your sleeping position, the foam allows your back to be neutral while you sleep. This will be beneficial to your spine and lower lumbar region since these types of mattresses avoid the suffering of back pain.  
Using memory foam also reduces the times when you get out of bed tired and sleepy due to the heavy feeling you have every time you wake up. This is not ideal since going to bed should help you relax, not prolong your tiredness. Additionally, since it can support your body evenly, it can provide good neck support. This is ideal if you usually wake up with chronic neck pain no matter what kind of pillow you use. With the right mattress, you can relieve yourself from any chronic pain from your sleep.  
Minimizes Motion Transfer 
If you’re sharing your bed, you can just imagine how annoying it is when your sleeping buddy frequently changes their sleeping position, and you’re a light sleeper. While there’s no way for them to stop their sleeping habits and allow you to have a deeper sleep, memory foam will come to the rescue since you can’t feel their every movement. With their thick and non-spring materials, there would be minimal to no motion transfer, no matter how often your sleeping buddy changes position at night.  
One of the biggest advantages that people love about a memory foam mattress is how they can sleep comfortably even with somebody on their side. This is the perfect option if you’re co-sleeping and don’t want to interrupt yourself with their movements, along with their sleeping positions. Unlike regular mattresses, memory foam doesn’t use springs, which is a motion magnet, only great for those sleeping alone.  
Hypoallergenic 
Having allergies can really be annoying, especially if it’s with dust. While keeping your household clean would always be ideal, some pieces in your home might not suit your nose, causing your allergies. While using a mattress protector can help protect yourself from developing allergies, switching to memory foam mattresses would help provide a quick resolution for you.  
Memory foam mattresses contain polyurethane foam that prevents dust mites inside your bed. With this, not only that it serves to give you a comfortable sleep at night, but it also helps to keep your environment clean as it eliminates and prevents dust mites in your bed. While adding a mattress protector is optional, your bed itself can do all of its work.  
Prevents Sagging Of The Mattress 
Nobody enjoys a mattress that sags just right after a few years of use. Ideally, you should be able to change your mattress every eight to ten years. But if you’re only on your two-year mark and there’s already an uneven deeper part of your mattress, it might force you to replace it and allow yourself to have a comfortable sleep. However, this can be quite pricey as mattresses don’t have a cheap price tag.  
Luckily, a memory foam mattress can help provide sagging and sinkage as it uses high-grade adaptive materials that help balance the weight of anything that sleeps on top of it. With the innovation of the memory foam mattress, you can allow your bed to look brand new even after years of sleeping on it. It’ll be a great investment for your pockets and your bedroom.  
Takeaway 
Everybody deserves to sleep peacefully every night. With a memory foam pillow, you can achieve a night of restful sleep and allow your body to reap its benefits every night you try to go to sleep. It’ll be the best investment for your body as you can allow yourself to wake up pain-free without worrying about any allergies as the bed itself prevents dust mites from forming inside your mattress.  
 To discover if there are underlying causes to your lack of sleep, contact the Alaska Sleep Education Center for a free 10-minute phone consultation. And if you live in the state of Alaska, our board-certified sleep specialists can even make a Home Sleep Test work for you by calling today  @ 907-357-6700.
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Brent Fisher, MBA, FACHE, FACMPE
President and Chief Executive Officer

“Alaska Sleep Clinic has a history of providing the most comprehensive sleep medicine services in the state of Alaska. Its potential has only begun. I am here to take these high-quality, comprehensive services to all Alaskans.”

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Brent Fisher has held leadership positions spanning a wide variety of complex and start-up organizations: manufacturing (pharmaceutical & medical device), software development, hospitals (academic and community), medical groups, consulting, hospice, military, engineered devices, engineered plastics, and private equity.

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His writings have been published in various magazines, trade journals, and medical journals, including the Physician Executive Journal, Healthcare Executive, Modern Healthcare, Group Practice Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Healthcare Management (Best Article Award).

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