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Gary Brecka

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

This is such an overlooked area right now,

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

and that's why I'm launching the Ultimate Snooze mattress.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

It's completely free of harmful petroleum, foams, glues, and chemical fire barriers.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

These out gas all night while you're sleeping.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

Many mattresses on the market right now, about 98%, use chemical fire retardants to meet federal regulations.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

Some chemicals used are chlorinated tris and antimony trioxide,

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

which have been directly linked to hormonal and neurological issues and might even be carcinogenic.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

While basic materials must be listed by law on the label, companies are not required to disclose specific chemical additives, flame retardants, volatile organic compound levels, or the adhesive glues that they're using, leaving consumers in the dark about what they're actually sleeping on.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

Now think about it.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

As you lay on that mattress and it compresses, that outgassing is going right into your lungs.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

Furniture, mattresses included, go through something called off-gassing, where many of the harmful chemicals are released right into the air.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

You might recognize this as that new mattress smell, but what you're actually smelling are these VOCs being released into the air.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

This can drag on for months, even years with some of these mattresses.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

The actual memory foams are the worst.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

This is dangerous since many of these VOCs are known carcinogens and they're used as adhesives or solvents in the manufacturing process.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

The good news is that you can have a better, more organic sleeping environment with a mattress that uses 100% GOTS certified organic cotton and wool from New Zealand as a fire barrier.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

This is a much safer, healthier, and more natural way to satisfy the federal regulations than using chemical fire retardants.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

Combine this with a cool, dark room, and you have the perfect environment for a perfect night's sleep.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

You know, so many times we get questions coming into our VIP group about asthma in children or respiratory issues or skin conditions, and people eliminate everything from their homes, but they don't think about the mattress they're sleeping on.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
234. How To Improve Your Sleep With These Sleep Hygiene Tips

Remember guys, a third of your life is gonna be spent on your mattress.