5 Signs You Need to Upgrade Your Mattress for Better Sleep
How often do you wake up energized and refreshed? If you’re not sure, your sleep might need an upgrade. Quality sleep is key to feeling energized, thinking clearly, and supporting your overall health – and your mattress plays a bigger role than you think.
If you’ve already tried Bryte’s sleep hygiene tips and still can’t sleep well, your mattress may be the trouble.
Common signs that it’s time to replace your mattress? Trouble getting comfortable at night, waking up stiff and sore, frequent tossing and turning, and daily fatigue are a few indications that your mattress has outlived its usefulness.
1. Persistent Aches and Pains Upon Waking
How does a mattress go from being comfortable one year to uncomfortable the next? Years of repetitive use wear out support systems and comfort layers, leading to a mattress that’s no longer supportive. An unsupportive mattress can cause back and neck pain, as well as other conditions such as muscle strain, herniated discs, or sciatica. Daily pain can negatively affect how you operate during the day, leading to prolonged periods of lowered energy and activity.
Mattress sagging, worn-out comfort layers, or over-used springs are often the culprits, but your body and your preferences can also change with time. You may be sleeping on a mattress that years later is too firm or too soft for your body. A mattress that is too firm with inadequate weight distribution creates pressure points, especially in the hips and shoulders, which can lead to pain and tossing and turning. A mattress that’s too soft or sagging can cause your body to sink in and compromise spinal alignment, which can lead to lower back pain and an increased strain on joints and muscles.
2. When Your Mattress Looks Fine, But Isn’t
How old is your mattress? Many sleepers hold onto their mattresses for too long because they don’t see visible signs of wear and tear, even though their mattress is no longer providing the right levels of support, pressure relief, or comfort. Over time, your body may have become accustomed to a mattress that has lost its support and pressure-relieving properties. Do you feel as rested in the morning as you used to? If not, it’s time to take a closer look at your mattress.
The comfort life of a mattress depends on the quality of materials and use. Traditional innerspring mattresses typically last 7-8 years, while memory foam mattresses often maintain their integrity for 7-10 years. Hybrid mattresses that combine both springs and pressure-relieving foams can also last for 7-10 years. All latex mattresses can retain their shape for closer to 10 years, but they may be bouncy and more prone to motion transfer.
3. Increased Allergy or Asthma Symptoms
One telltale sign that it’s time to ditch your old mattress is the accumulation of dust mites and allergens, which, according to the Mayo Clinic, can contribute to respiratory ailments. These allergic reactions, which can include a runny nose, sneezing, nasal congestion, and even asthma symptoms such as wheezing or difficulty breathing, can negatively impact sleep quality.
4. Your Partner Disrupts Your Sleep
Some traditional innerspring mattresses have a hard time masking motion transfer. Every time your partner moves, the motion from the coils can ripple across the bed and interrupt your sleep.
Innerspring beds with independently pocketed coils can help reduce motion transfer. Smart beds with independent support zones can minimize motion transfer, especially those made with motion-isolating memory foams and high quality comfort layers. Foam and hybrid mattresses use a combination of high-quality comfort layers and independent springs to absorb and dampen movement.
5. Disrupted Sleep Patterns and Fatigue
When your mattress is uncomfortable, this can lead to tossing and turning throughout the night, breaking your sleep cycle and disrupting your sleep patterns. Frequent wake-ups as you try to get comfortable interrupts critical sleep stages, resulting in decreased daytime performance and impacting how well you feel during the day.
The Role of Smart Bed Technology in Enhancing Sleep
How can smart bed technology enhance sleep and support wellness goals? By replacing your old, worn-out mattress with a smart bed, you can take advantage of the latest technology that’s designed to overcome sleep disruptors in a way that traditional mattresses can’t.
- Adjustable Firmness Controls – Most smart mattresses allow each partner to adjust the mattress firmness on their side of the bed. As your needs and preferences change, you can make your bed softer or firmer for the ultimate in personalized comfort.
- Active Pressure Relief – Only Bryte smart beds provide technology that monitors pressure points as you sleep, making real-time adjustments across 16 zones (8 per sleeper) to alleviate pressure points and provide a comfortable, customized sleep profile.
- Sleep Tracking – This technology monitors the sleeper’s heart rate and respiratory rate, sleep stages, sleep duration, and other key metrics. More advanced systems incorporate AI-enabled data analysis and insights for personalized recommendations to improve your sleep.
- Relaxation Features – Some brands offer a vibro-massage feature to help you fall asleep. However, in most brands, relaxation technology is only available with the additional purchase of an adjustable base. Bryte mattresses feature gentle, wake-like motion patterns that pair with synchronized audio, providing an immersive experience that helps you destress during the day and promotes faster sleep at night – no base necessary. PRO models also include a guided meditation library.
- Motion-Isolating Memory Foam – Advanced, high-density memory foam and premium comfort layers provide the best motion isolation so one partner won’t disturb the other’s sleep.
Why Choose Bryte's Smart Beds?
Now that you know important key indicators that it’s time to replace your mattress, what features should someone look for if they want to improve their sleep? Ideally, your new mattress should offer adaptability to address your needs over time. Things like firmness control, active pressure relief, and sleep tracking give you and your partner more control over your sleep quality. Immersive relaxation features can help reduce stress and the time it takes you to fall asleep. Bryte’s relaxation technology comes from the mattress and not the base, which means it does not require an extra purchase. The wave-like motion technology stems from programmatic motion in the 8-zones of air coils vs vibrations that come from motors in the base. In PRO Conform, motion-isolating memory foam is essential for couples with different sleep habits or schedules.
Bryte smart beds are unique, they include all these features and more. The Bryte Balance Signature model includes active pressure relief, adjustable firmness control, immersive relaxation with curated audio, and sleep insights. The Bryte Balance PRO and PRO Conform models have additional features like individual, 8-zone zone control that allows you to set the firmness of individual zones of coils (you can make zone softer in your shoulders and firmer in your lower back), customized support profiles based on your sleep position, an AI-powered Sleep Concierge, and Silent Wake Assist, which wakes you with gentle motion on one side of the bed instead of using a noisy alarm. The Bryte Balance PRO Conform model adds high-density and gel-infused memory foam for maximum motion control. With Bryte, you can achieve better sleep with a new mattress.
Considering a smart bed but still have questions? Connect with our sleep experts for answers and recommendations designed around your personal sleep preferences.
