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imagine this you've just checked into
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your luxury hotel after a long and uous
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day of travel you kick off your shoes
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toss your keys to the side and sink
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right into the bed the moment your body
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meets the mattress pure Bliss but here's
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the real question why is this bed so
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much more comfortable than the one
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that's waiting for you at home the magic
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of Hotel mattresses isn't accidental
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it's by Design let's re on the clck back
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to the early days of hospitality
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T back in the day hotels were about
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Grandeur not necessarily Comfort
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mattresses were little more than bags
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filled with springs or sacks of straw
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they were just a check in the box of hey
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we have a bed for you but as competition
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grew so too did customer desires and the
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quickest way to gain more customers and
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to beat the competition was to offer not
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just great
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but also a good night's sleep fast
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forward the clock to the early 20th
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century when Brands like the Maria and
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Hilton were standardizing their guest
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experience this marked the beginning of
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the new Sleep Revolution in Hospitality
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from this moment on hotels weren't just
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selling a room they were selling the
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promise of rest Sheran with over 400
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hotels and ins in more than 40 countries
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welcoming 20 million Travelers a year
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Sheran the hospitality people of it so
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what exactly makes a hotel mattress so
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different I promise it's not just the
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fancy label it's a carefully curated
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combination of different materials going
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in one after another to make sure that
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you sleep like royalty today we're going
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to break down layer by layer why a hotel
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mattress is so much more comfortable and
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what you can do at your home to make
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your sleeping experience that of hotel
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quality so first we've got to talk about
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the mattress itself most Hotel
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mattresses are medium firm or firm
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hybrid mattresses these breads provide
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great support at the Bas layer as well
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as nice Comfort up top but they're not
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too soft they choose to go with a medium
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firm bed so you get enough support while
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also choosing the pillow top to make
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sure they get enough support for the
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widest range of customers often times
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people mistake how plush or soft a
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mattress is for Comfort but the truth is
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we need support if you're in a mattress
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and it is incredibly soft that might be
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comfortable for lounging around in and
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it might be comfortable until you fall
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asleep but I promise you anybody who
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spent more than four hours in one knows
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that you can wake up and you could feel
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awful but hotels replicate that
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experience too and you feel great so
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what's up with that well we'll get there
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back to the mattress itself hotels often
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choose brands that are durable reliable
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and well known so Simmons and cely are
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often what you're going to find in a
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hotel and they do have a specific Hotel
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line of beds now for those of you at
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home who have actually seen those
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mattresses maybe you've even tried one
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at home you'll know that they don't feel
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anything like what you exper experience
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at most hotels you go to and that's
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because the mattress is just the
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beginning of the entire sleep experience
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that a hotel is curating for you and if
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you buy just the mattress you're
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definitely not going to get the same
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experience that you would if that
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mattress was used in a hotel right above
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the mattress hotels will often use a
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small topper that goes right on top of
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it and that's going to add another layer
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of plushness to the bed overall they're
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not choosing a giant four or 5 in memory
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foam topper because they know for most
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of their guests that's just not very
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comfortable but a 1-in Topper is enough
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to give a little bit more pressure
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relief keep a little bit more people
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happy differentiate it a little bit more
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from what you get at home while still
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giving great support and then right
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above that you have their sheet layer
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the sheets are often nothing special
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they're just using a high thread count
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high quality sheet set which is
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something that a lot of people choose to
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skimp on at home those $20 sheets that
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you might have from Amazon are
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absolutely not going to replicate the
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experience of a high-end sheet set that
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sells use and a bonus perk for them is
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when they buy high quality sheets yeah
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the cost is more expensive up top but
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they wash those sheets every single day
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well hopefully depending on the hotel
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that you're at even so these sheets are
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getting washed over and over and over
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and over and over and because of that
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they need to be durable they need to be
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high quality and the experience that you
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have at home can actually be drastically
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altered because of your sheets and
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that's something that not a lot of
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people talk about the biggest thing that
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has a direct impact on your comfort in a
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hotel is absolutely abolutely got to be
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the fact that almost every single Hotel
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uses two down comforters take a look
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next time you go to a hotel you'll have
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a nice soft down comforter and then they
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throw another one right there on top as
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well and the reason for that layering
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effect is it just again adds more to
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that soft luxurious feeling that you
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want while not really taking away much
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support you see the beautiful thing
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about down is that it offers a great
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soft cushy feel but but if you smash it
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down now it's supportive so when your
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hips or your shoulders which are the
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heaviest parts of your body sink into
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down when they have a medium firm or a
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firm mattress underneath of them the
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support that you lose from having such a
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soft comforter kind of disappears and it
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makes a world of difference yes you can
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get one but I'm telling you if you have
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two at home it's going to make a world
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of difference and there's a reason every
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single hotel that you know is throwing
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in two down comforters and that's not
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going to change even though it's
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expensive and it's because they know
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that those components create a much more
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comfortable mattress but it's not just
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about how comfortable the bed is it's
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mostly a psychology game yeah you heard
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me right part of the magic it's in your
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mind and no you're not crazy that's also
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by Design and also really just by
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circumstance as well I mean when you
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step into a hotel you're stepping away
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from the daily stressors of life you're
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moving into a clean minimalist
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environment that is completely free of
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clutter and also free of stress
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someone's going to clean the room after
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you're gone you don't have to worry
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about it they're going to take care of
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all the laundry and that definitely adds
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to the relaxation but there's one more
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piece to the puzzle that really makes
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Hotel Beds so much more comfortable
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beyond the fact that you're stepping
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away from your daily life and that
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they've curated the perfect mattress for
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it is the fact that most people when
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they are in a hotel crank the AC more
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than they do at home studies actually
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show that people drop the temperature by
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about 3° more in a hotel than they do at
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their home why well simple you don't
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have to pay for the electricity to cool
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that down or even think about it and
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because of that you're going to crank
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the temperature down and we know that
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the body the human body has to drop an
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average of
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2° before it can fall asleep and in a
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hotel you're just really helping
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yourself get there even more also
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doesn't hurt that often times once we
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get to a hotel we've had a pretty long
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day air travel especially will
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contribute to that and be exhausting
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trust me I know I used to be a flight
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attendant and hotel Peds always were the
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best after a 16-hour shift there's also
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the novelty Factor something about
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sleeping in a bed that's not yours
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tricks the brain into thinking it's a
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treat it's an Indulgence and often times
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hotels are a treat they are an
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Indulgence but your brain doesn't know
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any difference even if you're there for
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business it still is a novel thing for
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you unless you've been doing it for like
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more than a year then it that novelty
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kind of wears off for most people
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sleeping in a hotel bed is a treat and
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an escape from everyday life here's the
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good news though you don't have to book
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a suite at the Four Seasons to enjoy the
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same level of comfort right at home with
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a few key upgrades you can transform
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your sleep experience so obviously you
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can change your mattress but if that's
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not in the budget the first thing I
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would recommend is upgrading and getting
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a mat mess topper but don't go overboard
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everything you're going to find when you
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Google best mattress top when you go
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into a store and you see their mattress
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toppers in Target or Walmart or wherever
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you choose to shop they're often going
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to push you into these really big really
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thick mattress toppers and yeah I mean
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for a customer it's an easy sell they're
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in there you can put your hand on it you
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can feel how soft it is maybe they even
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have a bed for you to try it on and it
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just feels so luxurious but your body
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doesn't need that much pressure relief
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that's like sinking in to a crazy soft
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couch and then when your spine doesn't
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get support you're going to wake up in
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the middle of the night and you're going
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to wish you never even bought the darn
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thing to begin with they don't care
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though because they can sell you a
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thicker topper for more money and at the
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end of the day that's what most people
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are going to do I recommend starting
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with a 1 to 1 and 1/2 in topper ideally
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that would be an all natural material I
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recommend latex because memory foam
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Toppers are notoriously hot and we can
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make your bed softer and more comfort
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fortable and more luxurious but if
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you're waking up because you're hot
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terrible idea don't do it next up is of
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course the sheets I used to skimp on
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sheets and why wouldn't I you can go on
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Amazon right now and find a pair of
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sheets for $ 20 to $30 that has over
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50,000 f-star reviews but are they good
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sheets well yeah they're great sheets
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but here's the thing they're great
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sheets for that price point if you
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invest in a high quality sheet set I
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promise you are going to be blown away
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by the difference that it makes because
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your body knows it's a very tactile
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experience right you can tell the
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difference between a high quality sheet
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set versus the $30 ones on Amazon and
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you know this and pretty much everyone
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knows this too that's why we like Hotel
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sheets more than ours at home because
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they're high quality sheets I recommend
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600 threadcount cotton sheets the per KY
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weave beyond that the biggest upgrade
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that you can make for your sleep
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experience is going to be going with a
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down comforter this is a significant
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investment for sure but if you're on a
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budget you can replicate this by buying
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a down blanket rather than a down
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comforter and sliding that in as one of
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the layers in your bed though I always
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recommend two down comforters because
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there's a reason hotels are doing it and
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that is the biggest differentiator that
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you're going to feel in their beds
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beyond that you should get a good pillow
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to sleep on if you're not sleeping with
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a good pillow that's that's in and of
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itself going to probably be the single
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greatest change that you can make to
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enhance your sleep experience and we can
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cover that in a totally separate video
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because there's a lot that goes into
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picking the right pillow but it's also
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about the auxiliary ones as well hotels
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often use down pillows all around and
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they're nice they're soft they're fluffy
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they kind of add to that luxurious
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experience and I recommend doing the
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same it doesn't have to be down but I
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would get a down alternative if you're
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on a budget don't use this as the pillow
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that you put your head on to sleep use
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it as a supportive pillow however else
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you need because you'll be surprised the
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difference that a pillow you barely use
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will make as well then of course we have
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to talk about changing your environment
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in my opinion the most impactful choice
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that you can make to increase your
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quality of sleep is purchasing some
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blackout curtains they're not expensive
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you can find them just about anywhere
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and they are going to have a drastic
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effect although I will warn you don't
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use them to overs sleep because that can
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be a whole thing too we don't want to
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mess up your circadian rhythm we want to
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support it so time that as well that's
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the biggest bang for your buck that
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you're going to get but of course you
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could always lower the temperature in
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your room as well make sure that you
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have some kind of white noise going on
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in the background if that doesn't work
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for you people are individualized they
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are different some people don't want to
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hear anything but I really prefer 432 HZ
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audio to fall asleep to it's just
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calming relaxing and it's a great
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wavelength yeah they'll tell you it's a
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healing wavelength I don't know about
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all that what I do know is it puts me to
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sleep and that makes a difference too
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taking the time to make all of these
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changes will make a drastic difference
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on the quality of sleep that you are
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getting and after all sleep is the most
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important thing in our entire lives if
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you don't get enough sleep you're at
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significant greater risk of developing a
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multitude of things like heart disease
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depression high blood pressure cognitive
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impairment type 2 diabetes obesity
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anxiety impaired immune function and
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worst of all Alzheimer's it is proven
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sleep is essential as the foundation of
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our lives and our goal here is to get
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you the best sleep possible and that is
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why we were created we have a whole
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website focused on just that go ahead
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and check it out in the link below we'd
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be happy to help you on your sleep
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Journey if you're in the market for a
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new mattress we can help you there as
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well because that's the main thing we
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review here on this channel anyway my
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name is Ethan thank you for watching
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this video and hopefully next time you
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watch one of our videos you're getting
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better sleep from one of these
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recommendations sleep tight
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