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The Model Health Show

TMHS 894: Sleep Divorce, Toxic Mattresses, & Creating A Sleep Sanctuary - With Jack Dell'Accio

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Wellness, Nutrition, Health, Sex, Selfhelp

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Sleep is an essential function that impacts every single facet of your life and well-being. Getting a better night’s sleep often comes down to optimizing your sleep environment. On today’s show, you’re going to learn how to improve your relationships, reduce your exposure to toxins, and upgrade your health by enhancing your sleep quality.

On this episode of The Model Health Show, our guest is Jack Dell’Accio. Jack is the founder and CEO of the organic mattress company, Essentia, and a certified Sleep Coach. He’s passionate about helping folks heal and recover through the power of optimized sleep. In this conversation, Jack and I are nerding out on our common passion—sleep hygiene.

We’re going to discuss which sleep cycles are the most critical for improving your health, the toxins that are hiding in your mattress and how to get on the same sleep schedule as your partner. You’re also going to learn about how your sleep quality impacts your mood and your relationships, the truth about electromagnetic fields in your bedroom, and what to look for if you’re ready to upgrade to a non-toxic mattress. Enjoy!  

In this episode you’ll discover: 

  • The connection between poor sleep and higher levels of aggression.
  • Which two sleep phases are the most important.
  • How your sleep environment impacts your nervous system.
  • Why sleeping pills don’t actually improve sleep quality.
  • How sleep quality and relationship health are linked.
  • The crucial role that sleep plays in recovery.
  • What a sleep divorce is, and how to avoid it.
  • The #1 household item that emits the most toxins.
  • Why your temperature is a key ingredient to sleeping well.
  • How EMFs can affect your sleep quality.
  • The interesting science of how quartz can improve sleep quality.
  • Why spring mattresses aren’t optimal.
  • How sleeping well can help your body heal.  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson.

0:04.7

For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com.

0:11.5

Today, a growing number of people are breaking up.

0:15.4

Now, I'm not talking about in the conventional sense.

0:18.2

I'm talking about a sleep divorce. People are breaking up with their partners

0:24.5

and some could say for good reason. When we get together with someone, we don't just get together

0:30.2

with them. We also get together with their sleep representative. And people's waking personality

0:37.4

can be very different from their sleep

0:40.2

deprived personality now if you're getting visions of severance bubbling up

0:46.6

there's good reason for that as well because our sleep quality can have us

0:52.1

acting dramatically different at the office or at home.

0:56.9

In particular, there are numerous studies affirming how our sleep quality impacts our mental health

1:02.6

and our disposition, our mood, how we're interacting with the world and how we're interacting

1:07.8

with each other. And one of the most unsavory characteristics that gets amplified when we're sleep deprived is aggression.

1:16.7

A meta-analysis of 74 studies published in the journal Sleep Medicine Reviews determined that poor sleep quality was indicative of higher aggression in over 80% of the studies.

1:31.9

The scientists stated, quote, our findings confirm that porcelainty quality is consistently

1:38.0

associated with higher aggression, unquote.

1:42.6

Have you noticed for yourself, or maybe for somebody that you're close

1:45.8

to, maybe even your kids, grandkids, when they're sleep deprived, when they're sleepy, they get

1:52.3

a little, quote, cranky, maybe a lot cranky. Now, we often attribute that to little kids,

1:58.1

but in many ways, we're big adult babies. We think that we've got our mental

2:02.3

health and our mood on lock, that we're totally in control of ourselves. But we have this

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