Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is

episode 355. I am so excited for today's interview. I have been just, I've been having butterflies in my stomach. I've been looking forward to talking with Bob Rasmussen, who is the founder of Intellabed, my new favorite obsession. I'm really excited to talk with you today Bob. Thank you so

much for taking time at your busy schedule to be with us today. Oh it is totally my

pleasure and I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you.

I'm glad you've had such a positive experience with Intellabed.

Absolutely.

Well, before we dive into your story, which is a very interesting one, I want to share my experience. Back and I want to share my experience back in I think 2012 2013 somewhere around there

my husband and I invested several thousand dollars in what we thought was going to be a bed to last

us for 10 years or more, a really top of the line mattress.

Two years later it was warped and I was so disappointed. I bought it from one of the major big box stores.

I noticed that my sleep was totally off. We were very disappointed with this mattress and we called them up because we remember some kind of guarantee or warranty and we felt totally misled because they said, oh, well, you know, it's actually retrograde, so we're just going to give you

a discount off the next one you buy from us.

And I thought, what in the world?

Why would I buy another mattress from you guys when the mattress you sold us didn't even last two years?

So we ended up buying a memory foam topper from Costco just to try to make this mattress last longer because we didn't you know we just

didn't know where to turn and we kept going around to these big box doors you know

lying on different mattresses and we were just weren't really happy and we kind of were gun shy at this point and our sleep got worse and

then of course we had a kid so now our sleep is totally messed up and I

noticed that I was going to the chiropractor sometimes two or three times a week, but definitely once a week I was going to the chiropractor because I'd wake up in pain and I'd wake up with my neck out and I kind of just blamed early motherhood, you know, it's I'm under a lot of stress, you know, we got a baby and we run a business, and I didn't blame the mattress.

And we're sleeping on what I didn't realize was toxic foam memory foam and now getting in

Starting the podcast three years ago. I was diving in more and more into the health space and I kept hearing about organic beds and how these

off-gassing mattresses can off-gas, cancer-causing chemicals, and I started to get more and more concerned.

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