| REM your sleep engines. The two essentials to | | | | Western New York, where they produce the |
| nutritious sleep are clean breathing air, and eight | | | | Health Mate ® air cleaner. It removes the |
| hours' time to invest per night. Meet these two | | | | pollutants in your bedroom air, constantly |
| criteria, and you could sleep on a rock, and wake | | | | refreshing the entire room every 15 minutes, |
| up refreshed. | | | | supporting a full-length, uninterrupted sleep. |
| Americans are notoriously sleep deprived; we're | | | | All-steel construction, and all-American made, |
| up early and rush to work, up late with TV, --our | | | | Health Mate operates using full room-inclusive air |
| hurried patterns limiting a good full night's sleep | | | | exchange through a true medical grade HEPA |
| have caused a sleep-pharmaceutical industry to | | | | filter process. In addition to running a bedroom |
| rise in the billions and growing. | | | | Health Mate air cleaner, your remaining |
| An average of eight hours' sleep each night in a | | | | commitment is simply the eight hours' to invest in |
| bedroom with clean breathing air is essential to | | | | a diet of sleep exercise. |
| maintain our balance of cognitive skills, such as | | | | If someone tells you they only need a few hours |
| speech, memory, innovative and flexible thinking. | | | | sleep, it's similar to someone who fills up on only |
| As this article will show, the evolving stages of | | | | one food category, say hot dogs, missing out on |
| sleep over the course of the night slow down the | | | | a fuller and healthier nutrition range. Sleep science |
| heart and breathing capacity, allowing the body's | | | | works much the same way in everyone: it occurs |
| enzymes to work their night jobs on our daily | | | | in 90-minute cycles and it is broken into Rapid Eye |
| refreshment cycle. | | | | Movement (REM) and non-REM, which is then |
| Even the most visibly clean sleeping quarters has | | | | broken into four healthy sections. |
| a constant attack of invisible indoor | | | | When we first fall asleep we enter into the first |
| pollutants--dust, dander (both human and pet), | | | | stage of non-REM, light sleep. During this stage our |
| airborne organic chemicals, bazillions of dust mites, | | | | muscle activity slows down and we're half awake |
| multiple allergens and microscopic particulates, plus | | | | and half asleep. We enter stage two after 10 |
| mold spores, household off-gases and more. | | | | minutes of light sleep. The breathing pattern and |
| Without a good air cleaner in our bedroom, we | | | | heart rate slows. This lasts for around 20 minutes. |
| wake in the morning to itchy eyes, congestion, | | | | Stage three and four are deep sleep. This is when |
| and restless fatigue, after our bodies are wrought | | | | our heart rate and breathing are at their lowest |
| by having worked all night to clean the air we | | | | levels, when we need the Health Mate the most. |
| breathe, and actually produce approximately two | | | | By the time we reach age 50, our lung capacity is |
| tablespoons of toxic phlegm, all of which | | | | about half of what it was when we were 20. |
| potentially leads to allergies, asthma and other | | | | Compound this by the fact that when we sleep, |
| respiratory illness. | | | | horizontally, we operate at about half of our |
| Austin Air Systems' operates the world's largest | | | | daytime lung capacity, so much more in need of |
| home, clean air systems factory, located in | | | | Health Mate's clean, breathable bedroom air. |