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[Ben Greenfield @bengreenfield]

For cooling my body at night and then heating it as the morning approaches, I use a device called the "Orion" @orionsleep (1/4)

[Logan @logansxhandle]

Sleeping on a temperature-controlled mattress cover was linked to better sleep quality, next-day mood, and mental sharpness compared with a sham control.

Temperature-controlled mattress covers are one of the fastest-growing categories in sleep technology and broader consumer health. Across published evaluations, the significant findings come almost entirely from self-reports, with users answering questionnaires about how they slept and how they feel.

But there is a major vulnerability underlying the evidence for this rapidly growing product. These devices sit visibly at your bedside and carry the promise of better sleep. That creates an expectation of improvement, which biases users toward reporting positive results. In studies to date, users have known whether their device was on or off.

We recognized this gap and deployed the first-ever sham control in this device category.

We observed significant improvements in next-day mental sharpness and mood compared with sham, along with significant improvements in perceived sleep quality.

Read the preprint here:
https://t.co/H0NIfj6Ima

We hope this work inspires the sleep research community to invest more deeply in effective sham controls and opens a discussion about how to build them into future studies of the device type. We see this as essential to understanding the impact of temperature-regulating sleep products, given how conspicuous these devices are and how much more sleep research relies on subjective measures than other areas of health.

[Logan @logansxhandle]

In the largest pre-post analysis of temperature-controlled mattress covers to date, overnight heart rate fell and overnight heart rate variability rose.

Temperature-controlled mattress covers have rapidly gone from a niche product to being in hundreds of thousands of homes across the globe. They are among the fastest-growing products in consumer health today. Predictably, research hasn't kept pace. The evidence base rests on a handful of small studies, which leaves the basic question open:

Why is everyone in love with their smart mattress cover?

To find out, we ran the largest pre-post analysis of temperature-controlled mattress covers to date, 2,394 nights of sleep across 171 users transitioning onto Orion. We found significant improvements in key measures of heart health.

In users' first week sleeping on Orion, overnight heart rate dropped and overnight heart rate variability rose. Both are strong independent markers of reduced cardiovascular risk and increased overnight recovery.

The full analysis is posted on medRxiv:
https://t.co/nuyYVx5iIp

We hope the breakthrough scale of this study and its wide range of endpoints can be valuable to the evidence base for this product category and the larger sleep research community.

[Logan @logansxhandle]

The @orionsleep team had the pleasure of attending #SLEEP26, the world's top sleep science conference, where leading researchers in sleep health come together to discuss emerging issues and breakthrough findings.

This year, we dove deep into the latest research on the relationship between sleep and the thermal environment. A few highlights:

Techniques that leverage temperature to preserve sleep quality for women during perimenopause and menopause.

How temperature can help restore and regulate circadian rhythm, from night-shift workers to weekend warriors trying to get their sleep back on track by Monday.

We're working to translate these emerging findings into features that use temperature regulation to improve your sleep, whatever your sleep challenge may be.

Whatever your reason for investing in your sleep, we've got your back… Literally.