Exclusive | This high-tech headband changes your brainwaves to help you fall asleep faster does it work?
A few weeks ago, I ducked out of the office to take a nap at a hotel — for journalism.Neurotech startup Elemind offered me the chance to try out its high-tech headband, which promises to put you to sleep faster by literally changing your brainwaves.I had to know — could it be that easy? Could this headband, which sends sound through your skull, really be the key to getting better rest without popping drugs or supplements?Spoiler alert: I really didn’t want to get up when my nap was over.America is having a bit of a sleep crisis.A Gallup poll last year found that 42% of adults don’t get as much sleep as they need, with only 25% reporting that they average eight hours a night.
Experts recommend seven to nine.Insufficient sleep has been linked to countless health issues, including brain aging, visceral fat, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart and kidney issues, depression and increased inflammation.And of course, it makes you feel pretty terrible.“Sleep truly is a superpower,” Meredith Perry, co-founder and CEO of Elemind, told The Post.“If you have better sleep, it can be a force multiplier for everything else in your life, whether it’s your hormones or emotional regulation or mental acuity.
If you have good sleep, everything else in your life becomes better.”Elemind was launched last year by Perry — a former NASA employee — and other neuroscientists to help people find a way to fall asleep faster without pharmaceuticals.Their lightweight $349 headband is like “noise cancellation, but for the brain,” she explained.
It works by using sensors to read your brain and “drive [it] from wakeful patterns to restful patterns using just sound.”“We read your brainwaves and send a sound pulse at a very specific moment in time relative to your unique brainwaves to disrupt the brainwaves associated with wakefulness, which helps drive the brain to sleep.”Sound like something out of “Severance”? Your “outie” may get sleepy, but there’s...