Family & Life Magazine Issue 11 | Page 19

Better Sleep Is Just a Magnet Away No more sleeping pills. No more psychotic drugs. No more tossing and turning in bed. Healthy, quality sleep can be yours with just one simple device. The average adult Singaporean sleeps for about six hours at night. If you’re wondering whether that’s enough sleep, most researchers are of the consensus that it is not – most adults who are not Nikola Tesla (who apparently only snoozes for two hours a day) or Margaret Thatcher (who survived on four hours of sleep daily) require between seven to eight hours of sleep to function optimally the next day. Our high-powered lifestyle, though, tends to make dozing off for that amount of time tricky. Even if you do manage to get seven hours of forty winks, only snatches of it might be good quality sleep while the rest of the time, you’re tossing and turning and surviving on fragmented snooze. Sleep is one of those important characteristics of our lives that are only sorely missed when it disappears. Dr Richard Chua has dedicated almost a decade perfecting a drugfree solution for quality sleep. The culmination of his hard work? The SleepEzy sleep aid device, a simple contraption consisting of a magnet embedded in soft foam. Using it is simple – pop it under your pillow just around your neck area and then lay your head down. The SleepEzy also helps with sleep apnea, or snoring. The magnet provides a slight amount of tension in the water in your body, which helps to open your passageways. The SleepEzy device works on the premise of the Magnetic Interference Cloud technology. In layman’s terms, the magnet within the SleepEzy device helps to boost melatonin production by drawing the heat out of your body and into the air so that your internal systems are cooled down. Before you dismiss it as hogwash, the aforementioned MIC has its roots in the field of bio-magnetism, the study of magnetic fields produced by living organisms – bio-magnetic scientists recently found that “dogs preferred to excrete with the body being aligned along the North-South axis”. There are no repercussions or side effects with the SleepEzy device, unlike other sleep aids that require you to pop a pill or be on a cocktail of drugs. In fact, since it was first launched last year, more than 10,000 of the sleep aids have been sold, purely through word of mouth alone. Dr Chua is so confident of his patented invention that he’ll give you your money back if you’re not happy with the device for whatever reason during the first two weeks of using it. Besides sleep problems, the SleepEzy also helps with sleep apnea, or snoring. The magnet provides a slight amount of tension in the water in your body, which helps to open your passageways. Dr Chua recalls visiting the house of one of his customers; the husband slept on the couch because he snored badly and his wife couldn’t sleep with his snoring. He gave the both of them the SleepEzy devices and now, the two of them are happily sharing the matrimonial bed together. The SleepEzy sleep aid devices are available in selected Guardian Health & Beauty, Home-Fix and OG outlets. For more information, head on over to www.esmotech.com/ sleepezy. Aug 2014 • Family & Life 19