I decided to take a quick search and see what people are claiming about magnetic pillows. I found one site that says that magnetic pillows help promote natural melatonin within the body. According to Wikipedia, melatonin is “a pervasive and powerful antioxidant, with a particular role in the protection of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.” Melatonin also has an effect on our circadian rhythms, our natural sleep-wake cycle.

Most of the rest of the information I found has to do with getting rid of headaches and stress so that you can sleep well, the usual stuff that you read about therapeutic magnets.

I hadn’t heard the stuff before about melatonin and that magnetic pillows can help restore your natural sleep cycle if used regularly. I found an article on eHow about how to sleep on a magnetic pillow. At first I thought the idea of an article about how to sleep on a pillow seemed a little silly, but it actually has some good information on how to make sure that you get the best night’s sleep possible, in addition to using a magnetic pillow.

I cannot personally verify any of the claims that people make about magnetic pillows because I generally sleep very well, at least until my cat wakes me up in the morning, and I don’t get headaches very often. I do use a magnetic pillow though and maybe that’s why? I don’t know and I’m not willing to go without my pillow to test it. I even take it with me when I travel.

My pillow comes from Nikken, the people who have been making magnetic products for the body for more than 35 years. One thing that sets the Nikken pillows apart from the others that I saw online is that these are made of natural latex rubber shredded up into a filler that is comfortable to sleep on and doesn’t get matted down like other pillow fillers. It also makes use of natural fibers that are naturally flame resistant so that they don’t have to coat the pillow in noxious chemicals to meet government safety standards.

You can check out Nikken’s Naturest Custom Pillow here.

Wayne Woodworth

Do you have difficulty sleeping more than a few hours at a time? Nikken has just launched a new magnetic mattress topper and will discontinue the current Ultra Kenko Pad once they run out. They are calling the new magnetic pad the Kenko Naturest Mattress Topper. There is also a new Naturest pillow as well that will replace the existing pillow.

The technology advances are cool but the most important thing is how people are sleeping. I used to have trouble getting to sleep at night until I started using Nikken’s current magnetic mattress pad, the Ultra Kenko Pad. Once that was on my bed I could fall asleep within seconds of laying down, and still do. The only down side to that magnetic pad is that it is very firm. If you like a soft bed then it probably took a little adapting to, and it did for me.

There are a few people who still had trouble sleeping with that one. Two people in my upline told me that before the Ultra Kenko Pad they would sleep very little. With that pad they could sleep 4 hours or so at a time and feel great. That was a significant improvement for them and they were happy with that.

Now comes the new Naturest mattress topper. These same people are saying that this new pad is helping them to sleep 8 or 9 hours a night. They might not get that every night, but even just 2 or 3 nights a week of sleeping completely through the night is a huge breakthrough for them.

The new magnetic mattress pad, or mattress topper as they are calling them now, is made using a natural latex rubber and a new magnet technology. Latex provides many benefits. It is a renewable resource, so it is good for the environment. The latex is much softer than the foam from the current magnetic pad, so it is more comfortable and easier to adjust to. Natural latex is also resistant to microbes and such, so it is cleaner and better for the body.

I don’t know much about the science behind the new magnets in the Naturest pad other than that they have figured out how to incorporate 3 magnets, offset from each other to some degree, into each node. They are calling this Radial-Axis Magnetism or RAM and it somehow creates a 3-dimensional magnetic cocoon effect that wraps the body and is able to pull you deeper into sleep.

While all of the new technologies are great, the important thing is that people who had trouble sleeping are now able to sleep through the night. Of course, there is no guarantee that you will experience the same results that they have. The cool thing about magnets is that they don’t have any negative side-effects, so it doesn’t hurt to try it out.

The Kenko Naturest Mattress Topper and pillow is currently in a pre-order phase. Leave me a comment here or use my contact page to reach me to find out more about it and order your own.

Wayne Woodworth
Independent Nikken Wellness Consultant