Do you really sleep better with a weighted blanket? Sleeping well is fundamental because it promotes good cell renewal. If the quality of the mattress counts for a lot in this deep sleep equation, the choice of cover greatly contributes to the comfort of the user.
So, the advent of weighted blankets has allowed many people to sleep better.
In this article, we tell you how a relaxing weighted blanket can free you from stress and anxiety while allowing you to achieve a sufficient level of sleep and relaxation.
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Let’s go.
Relaxing Weighted Blanket: The Manufacturing Secret
Weighted blankets are designed using somewhat special technology. In fact, they are made up of tiny glass or plastic balls.
These microbeads are generally associated with natural materials; which ultimately gives the cover a rather particular texture.
Thus, unlike the standard blanket, a weighted blanket has a fairly significant weight (between 5 and 25 kg).
Due to this massive structure, the effects of the blanket on the body do not really go unnoticed.
How does this translate into everyday life?
Once you are settled in your bed and covered with this very thick comforter, you feel like a massage.
These are the glass beads which, distributed evenly throughout the body, exert a deep pressure imitating, so to speak, the action of an embrace.
We feel like we are in a cocoon so in perfect security. To describe this phenomenon, specialists speak of “Deep Touch Pressure”.
According to them, this pressure is necessary to condition the body and prepare it for sleep.
The cocooning effect would reduce stress and allow the sleeper to relax while waiting for sleep. But, there are other factors that explain why these blankets are so relaxing.
A Sensory Blanket Releases Hormones That Provide Well-Being
Weighted blankets are known to release serotonin but also melatonin and oxytocin in the brain.
These well-being hormones give this duvet some rather interesting properties, the manifestation of which on the body should certainly improve sleep.
A high level of serotonin helps counterbalance the effects of dopamine which promotes hyperactivity.
Thus, people suffering from sensory processing disorders, patients with ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder with or without Hyperactivity), as well as those who develop restless legs syndrome are likely to immediately find comfort in proprioceptive blankets.
Synthesized particularly at night but also from weighted products, in this case, the weighted blanket, melatonin has a relaxing effect on the body like oxytocin.
Indeed, thanks to these two hormones, the user can feel a sensation of fullness and soothing.
He is better equipped to welcome sleep as a result of this sensation, which the blanket’s enveloping effect exacerbates.
Ultimately, we can say without a shadow of a doubt that the weighted blanket is relaxing given its technical characteristics and its ability to secrete so-called well-being hormones.
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