Sleep Psychology - Jack Dell’Accio of Essentia Mattresses

welcome back to another episode of

Christian Natural Health today I am

excited to have Jack delacio CEO and

founder of Essentia he has been focused

on analyzing sleep for over 20 years of

most importance to Jack is the impact of

restorative sleep in terms of recovery

from disease prevention of disease

longevity and performance Jack has

worked with some of the world's top

athletes to optimize their recovery and

performance through the years he has

worked directly with health gurus

professional athletes and teams in the

NBA NFL MLS and over 25 percent of

active NHL players on act on creating

healthy sleep performance essentia's

organic mattress has been recognized by

several internationally renowned

organizations including the Mayo

Clinic's well living lab Essentia has

been named the number one foam mattress

by consumer reports for seven

consecutive years now Jack is proud to

present the results of a double-blind

sleep study of professional athletes

which proves that Essentia can extend

the time spent in rem and deep cycle

sleep by 20 to 60 percent welcome Jack

thanks for joining us

thank you Laura I really appreciate

being here very nice very cool to meet

you yeah so you had this really

fascinating story of how you got into

the mattress business so tell us a

little bit about that what got you into

this into sleep science in general

well uh I guess uh even pre-essentia

I've always been entrepreneurial so

being having a business being in

business is something that uh you know

even in the College Years I I didn't

have a part-time job I had a part-time

business so it's something that that

kind of was ingrained in me

um and and I had my own uh design and

and no work business that was going

quite well but then in in you know the

uh

2003 I believe it was I had my dad and I

had my aunt who were both undergoing

cancer treatments and reevaluating their

health and and and and their

environments right so one of the things

and I I think everyone that

goes down this path of Wellness no

matter what it is whether it be sleep or

anything else it's usually something

that you know pivots in your life that

changes that direction for me was you

know just seeing different

um uh

different Health practitioners for for

them and learning inquiring researching

and that kind of uh through their

journey I realized that the home

environment and specifically your sleep

environment they were hypersensitive to

everything uh from from having a lot of

physical pain to having reactions to

chemicals dust and your environment

breaking out in hives so so this was

something that I was observing and in

trying to see what the right sleeping

products the Sleep environment was we

were realizing that you know introducing

conventional memory foams uh interrupted

the respiratory issues then uh bringing

in uh organic products that had dust

mites or micro dust fraud and other

issues so so that was the phase of

discovering the problems that were out

there and that the solutions were not

just readily available and that what

started my journey into researching the

materials understanding what makes them

tick understanding how to what's wrong

with them and it's been three and a half

years trying to develop an alternative

and what I had honestly I I thought I

would have walked away and told you know

someone here you go this is the magic

sauce and I'll go back to my life but um

what I did realize is that not everyone

had that that sense of Duty and Mission

to bring this product available for

people for their health and wellness a

lot of the industry is interested in

marketing and and and and just headlines

so a lot of people that wanted to take

on this this product they wanted to use

because of the the high cost of the

materials used they wanted to use

insignificant amounts and put it into

regular toxic mattresses just so they

could have the marketing verbiage

um so what I saw that was happening I I

figured it was time for me to roll Vice

leaves and and actually start the whole

production of it and that's what I did

and

um it's been quite a journey since then

yeah awesome so mostly the the big

unique factor for Essentia is the fact

that it's clean you know is that is that

accurate is that the big thing or is

there more

I would say that that was the big thing

in 2006 uh because that was where my

focus was but I continued to be a

student of this and learning and um I

wasn't learning from the industry I was

actually learning from Health

practitioners and and really uh you know

by Say by in 2008 I really had a much

better understanding of the power of

sleep and not just creating that clean

environment but the power of recovery

and wellness that comes through sleep

and by 2009 I had uh I had issued two

patents on uh different cores that were

really

um effective in extending some REM sleep

and deep sleep and so understanding the

stimulants that interrupt the deep sleep

cycles and so yeah so so from when I

started looking for a clean bedroom and

a clean sleep environment

2009 while uh you know our transition

happened from our initial customer base

where primarily maybe cancer patients

who are going through their big

challenges to people in remission

eventually uh people that wanted a

prevention to eventually lifestyle this

all happens in it's just a few a few

short years but when I uh patented our

new cores all of a sudden it became

performance thriving overachievers and

that's when athletes started to kick in

now obviously uh all of these we serve

today from from people who are ill to

people who are hyper performing uh but

we you know just as much as I was able

to learn from people who were

hypersensitive to their environment I

also learned a lot from people who are

so in tune with their bodies which are

the athletes and uh We've our Evolution

has you know I always see it's a

starting point because we don't look at

the industry and just try to have a

better product we only we we we beat the

industry in 2006 with our first launch

so today we just try to improve on

ourselves and and constantly do better

and and products come a long way from

what amazing things it did in 2006 to

incredible

um uh

incredible performance and and sleep

tracking that we did in 2012 to what we

are today uh it's actually been

incredible and we leave uh like like

you've um mentioned we did a double bite

uh study with pro athletes last year and

the numbers were insane yeah yeah and

what do you attribute that to what do

you think it is about the mattress that

enables people

so it it's the elimination elimination

of all stimulants so so what most people

will realize in the bedroom what is

preventing you from getting deep sleep

the most is your mattress it's the

product that is emitting the most toxins

in the air uh because they're made of

high density polyurethane materials it

is the uh it is the place that's a

nesting ground for dust mites bed bugs

um and just your own proteins that that

that that basically uh dust mites are

feeding off of right so

you have an environment which is toxic

uh and an allergen a prone environment

you have an environment where most

mattresses are trapping heat so not

allowing your body heat to escape which

is something else that prevents you from

getting into your deep sleep sleep

cycles

um and then it gets to the more common

things of pressure relief and Pain

Management what most people go through a

mattress for is when they're feeling

pain it's time to change but there are

other things that we don't realize are

in our sleep environment and and

eliminating those is the key to

extending those deep sleep cycles got it

okay very cool so and then you said you

went beyond the mattress and kind of

like deepening into your study of sleep

and the science of sleep and what makes

it optimal so first question is just can

you give our listeners a brief overview

of the concepts of sleep hygiene I think

a lot of us probably know what a lot of

them are but just to refresh our

memories

well I mean

I think one of the things that I I like

to people to to focus on is their sleep

environment their sleep routine is is

really be be so conscious of what you're

bringing into that room uh just because

you can't see it doesn't mean it's not

it it it it's not uh it's it's not

affecting you so

um you know when we're looking at uh

a proper sleep environment it needs to

be clean and when I say clean I mean

toxins it needs to be something that

allows your body heat to escape it has

to be an allergen-free environment we

need to have the proper sleep routines

so so going to going to bed at the same

time are our our our brains are amazing

how uh our brains don't need to look at

a watch to know it's time to go to sleep

they they are internal clocks have that

routine down pack so if if we are

keeping consistency our body is

anticipating that that frequency from

happening

um so so from noise to lighting to uh

nutrition not eating three hours before

bedtime not training and stimulating

yourself through exercise too close to

bedtime these are all the things that uh

someone should be managing in their

sleep routine and and and and and trying

to figure out what the best options are

uh to respect it because sleep is the

foundation to everything it's a fun it's

the foundation if we didn't need it we

would have developed something to avoid

it and have a full 24 hours productive

but those eight hours are probably the

most productive we can be because that

is when we are uh you you know what most

people don't realize is is the detoxing

that happens even in our brains you know

when we're sleeping and it's

specifically the deep sleep cycles we're

getting a glymphatic drainage and and

and that is when your brain is

eliminating cells it it's basically

cleaning up for allowing your brain to

uh properly store memory uh to manage

stress there's so much things that

happen in the brain during sleep and

that's the most powerful thing we can do

uh within the 24-hour period to have a

really effective uh daytime is is really

what we do at night

absolutely so and kind of turning this

on its head a little bit what do you

have to say about our beliefs

beliefs how does that actually impact

how we can function throughout the day

regardless of what our sleep is actually

like

our beliefs as as well the mind is is

really powerful uh uh so the the thing

is

um

I believe that it's a mindset so so you

need to put yourself in that in in the

thought process where sleep is important

and sleep is a priority and believing in

it means that you will be doing it

whereas uh there's the other way around

where people that do not believe that

sleep is of importance and and they will

their brain will allow them to overcome

the need for sleep but it'll be

short-lived and it's not sustainable

because it's not actually true so that's

the the part of believing something that

uh kind of works against you on that set

but like in anything else you want to do

something well you need to believe it

you need to you know accept it embrace

it and then allow your your mind to open

up to prioritizing it and doing it well

but even Beyond just prioritizing it

like let's say somebody has a sleep

tracking data of some kind yeah if

you're waking up multiple times

throughout the night but if they have a

few if they wake up in the morning and

believe that they got restorative sleep

is that going to affect the way that

they feel throughout the day in terms of

energy levels or is the objective data

more important than the way they think

about it oh now you're we're stepping

into something that we really talk about

with athletes all the time so for

example with athletes and usually the

inverse is

uh because they do then most of them are

doing a lot of sleep dragging and what I

advise is not to look at their daily

results and look at a 10-day period and

aggregate results and just manage that

you are

running at a good Pace logging in your

REM sleep and deep sleep total over 10

days the reason for that is for the

opposite of what you just described is

that if an athlete wakes up on game day

and sees that he's had bad sleep he he

will have

a a a disturbed day concerned about his

performance all right so so so so he

will he may have a bad day he'll have

created that environment for a bad day

bad mentally and focus just because he

believes he's he's looked at the data

and I believe he has bad sleep and then

uh that will uh that will in practice

give him a bad performance result uh the

other way around as well and again if

you if you're tracking bad sleep but you

wake up and and you're you feel great

and you feel you've had great sleep

well that that could also be just the

cumulative effect you know one bad night

doesn't make one a bad day it's not a

one for one because you know some people

carry sleep debt and some others don't

so so maybe maybe you've logged in a bad

night but you wake up feeling great

that's great and you'll have a great day

because you feel great but generally

speaking people that are tracking bad

sleep night after night are not having

those great mornings yeah absolutely

that's really interesting it almost

sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy

to some degree like if you exactly at it

and you're like oh this is going to be a

terrible day and the

interesting psychology of insomnia when

people begin to dread going red and then

it becomes this Catch-22 because now

you're anxious about sleeping and so

then of course you're not going to sleep

seems like there that's also kind of a

self-fulfilling prophecy to some degree

as well

and Sonia that's a difficult one as well

that's tricky just because uh generally

speaking people letting up going towards

other substitutes to go to sleep so

they'll they'll sleeping aids and

sleeping pills and the problem with that

is that what they're going to do is uh

introduce a narcotic possibility that

will give them only light level sleeps

so so they're not they're they're not

conscious but typically those are

stimulants as well so sleep aids

get you unconscious and you think you're

sleeping well but you're on low level

sleep uh instead of deep level and REM

sleep and that's really the key to a

good night's sleep is if you're logging

in three hours of accumulated REM and

deep sleep and all the people who are

doing performing well and thriving in

what they they set out to do

my experience have three to four hours

of REM sleep doesn't mean they're

sleeping eight hours a night because

some people can achieve it in five and a

half hours others and six others and

seven so we're all different and and

just measuring if we're sleeping seven

or eight hours that's not the proper

measurements because seven or eight

hours of bad sleep is pointless seven

hours and and and you've already

accomplished your three hours of deep

and REM by five and a half for that

extra hour and a half is actually not

serving much purpose anyhow so yeah

we're all different in the length we

need to achieve

those REM and deep sleep cycles and it's

just about you know what what we need to

get there but but the key is getting

those getting those two cycles in just

because those Cycles are the ones that

allow you to physically repair mentally

repair and get you ready for your day

absolutely so and back to the idea of

mindset what would you suggest for

somebody especially if they've got a

little bit of anxiety around the concept

of sleep how do they cultivate a more

positive perspective so that at least

that doesn't become something that will

interfere potentially for them

well so so the the Mind part that's

that's the trickiest part but they've

got to have to experiment with a few

things

what I what's worked for me and and I

generally don't have issues with

sleeping but I've also passed this on to

a few athletes that have had anxiety and

their anxiety is often game day or

tryouts I mean this is crazy time of

year for us because because we work a

lot with the NHL so now the camp started

this week next week so all players are

getting back to cap it is an exciting

time but it's also a stressful time for

people to get their spots on the team

and what I've noticed is

um uh is that anticipation of sleep so

those three hours again like I said

making sure you're eating right and

you're not eating close to bedtime that

that that can eliminate some of that

anxiety not training at that time and

one of the real uh keys I found that can

be something is wearing a blue light

blocking glasses uh that really takes

away a lot of that stimulation

and that that's a great key that that

really prepares you to to bring on that

onset of sleep because that's the key

with someone with

um with the stress of going to sleep is

that onset once they can if we can get

them there then the rest should happen

in their sleep environment but it's that

it's that one to three hours prior to

sleep how are they preparing for it and

there are different types of bloodline

glasses they're not all the same you've

got what you typically see a yellow lens

which is a great daytime but then

they've got red lenses which really add

a lot more

strain on staying awake and I I've

noticed those have been effective I

believe that natural and organic ways of

doing this is the way to go because

things that are synthetic and and and

and and and and or you know uh chemical

based

um usually have the opposite of that

well they may consciously Knock You Out

unconsciously they're not giving you the

right type of sleep that you need so

whether it be aromatherapy lighting

um those are the real keys to making

this uh transition to onset of sleep

happening as as smoothly as possible

so what have I not asked you that you

want to make sure you leave

I hate the results of our of our study

results of our study uh was actually I

guess the the the background behind that

is that

we've all since 2012 we've been

constantly evaluating sleep of our

athletes of our users and

basically we've always known that we we

scored High

um but but in in the idea of constantly

improving what we do about

um five years ago we started exploring

with the elimination of EMF impact on

the body and emfs is something that

again just like toxins you can't see

them but we know they're not good for

you emfs signals from Wi-Fi and and and

and data and all kinds of streaming that

we all do everywhere we can't escape it

the satellites and the antennas are all

around us and uh our athletes would

basically

um they they don't uh want to detach

from their modern conveniences like most

of us though right we're we're here

we're on a zoom call and we're using all

the devices ourselves

um so it in in my studies in by working

I've realized that through the addition

of quartz in our formula specific low

frequency informed courts we've been

able to eliminate the impacts the the

erratic behavior that happens in your

blood cells during these Transmissions

so

um we launched the product

uh I guess it's been a year where we

prior to that we only have made it

available to our pro athletes because

they've always been on The Cutting Edge

of what we've been working out with but

but seeing that we had real evidence

base because our you know we work with

athletes we work institutional and we

work with informed consumers so just

making something available without the

evidence uh to back it up is something

that we don't do here at Ascension so

when we had this blood test

results

we made this available to everyone

so before launching it uh to all

Essentia users we decided to have a

10-week study with our pro athletes

where they got to

um uh it was a double line study so half

those players got to use the new

Essentia uh EMF protected mattress which

just took our essential uh uh

performance up a notch and over a

10-week period we saw between 20 to 60

percent Improvement in rem and deep

sleep from all players yeah

blocking that's amazing well that's that

wasn't essential to all this engine

that's Essentia to non-essentia oh got

it okay so it was not just the EMF it's

everything we do that resulted in 20 to

60 Improvement in rem and deep sleep got

it amazing which was incredible

incredible numbers Sports blocks EMF huh

I wasn't aware of that not not just

quartz and it doesn't block it right so

what it does is it creates a low level

frequency it's low level frequency

becomes a dominant frequency in the

Sleep area so while the signals are

coming in they're not coming in and

under erratic Behavior they're forced to

follow an organic flow which is the low

level

dominated by the mattress now fantastic

that's really fascinating very cool all

right where can people go to learn more

about you and maybe check out your

products

so we have tons of Articles tons of

information uh on our website my

essentia.com

and uh as well all our products are

there people know about us from word of

mouth and our website and that's that

we've we've done a a pretty interesting

job of not being a big business but but

those in the know seem to know us so

we're pretty proud of that

awesome well I will link to that in the

show notes

thank you so much Jack this has been

great

thank you appreciate it

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