Issue 30 | Face the Current

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FtC health

Avocado Green Mattress: Improving Personal

and Planetary Health in One Fell Snooze By Ainsley Schoppel Photography: Avocado Green Mattress Sleep. Babies do it intermittently, teenagers do it a lot, and the rest of us take what we can get in our busy lives. In fact, the average person sleeps for eight hours a day, which means that we all spend one third of our lives asleep. Let that sink in. We spend one third of our lives sleeping in our beds. Our mattresses are supposed to support us, comfort us, and leave us feeling restored after a night’s rest. Just like the contents of a nourishing meal, the components of our mattresses should support our health. But, on what are we sleeping exactly?

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