Stuff I Like: Savvy Rest
I like sleep. I like it a lot. I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't. If you like sleep, then read on, because I will tell you how you can have awesome sleep every night.
A few years ago I realized that I was waking up every morning feeling achy, sore, and generally unrested. When I complained to my wife, she said she was experiencing the same thing. So, we decided, it must be time for a new mattress!
I'm a science geek, so I wanted to head straight down to buy a mattress made out of that stuff developed by NASA (which turns out to be bullshit, by the way). You know what I'm talking about, the foam that you can jump on without spilling your wine. My wife, however, is a hippie tree-hugger, and she did the research and put the kibosh on that plan. Too many chemicals in that stuff, and there was no way in hell we were going to spend a third of of the rest of our lives sleeping on congealed chemical soup no matter how comfy it might be. In addition, we learned that memory foam doesn't breath, so it can get kind of hot. My wife is one of those women who is usually too hot or too cold, so getting a mattress that can get hot just seemed like a recipe for disaster. No space foam for me.Then we considered an air mattress, the kind that let each of us decide how firm or soft we wanted our side of the bed to be. That sounded like a great way to ensure we were both comfortable and would help to ensure marital bliss. So the intrepid researcher I married went out to find out whether that met her high standards, and surprise! it did not. In fact, it met neither of our standards. We learned that people naturally sweat a little while sleeping, and that sweat sinks into the mattress. In most mattresses the moisture spreads out and eventually evaporates, but not so in an air mattress. Turns out moisture just pools on that giant plane of impermeable plastic, where it starts to cause mold after a while. Lovely.
Then my wife found the solution. Savvy Rest. All-natural organic latex foam. This is the real deal. It breathes, so it doesn't get hot. It's natural and organic, and it's foam, so it's safe and incredibly comfortable. They sell it in 3-inch layer strips, so we can customize each side of the bed (my wife sleeps on three layers of soft foam, I sleep on two layers of soft and a layer of medium). Dust mites don't live in it, so it stays clean. It lasts forever. And I haven't woken up with a backache in three years. Honestly, this is the best mattress I've ever owned and every time I travel and sleep in a hotel room, no matter how nice the bed is, I miss my Savvy Rest.
