Philips HF3445 User manual (English) - Page 3

Introduction Thank you for purchasing the Daybreak™ Duo from Apollo Health®, the Body Clock Experts™. Your Daybreak is designed using Apollo's exclusive TrueDawn™ technology, which accurately simulates a summer sunrise just before you need to wake up. Your sleep cycle ends properly, and you awaken refreshed and ready to start the day. Visit www.ApolloHealth.com now to: • Register your Daybreak • Learn more about your Daybreak and TrueDawn technology Don't have Internet access? Be sure to fill out your warranty card located inside the box and mail it to Apollo Health. Visit the FAQ section of this guide for tips that will help you get the most from your Daybreak. 4 TrueDawn™ Technology-A Better Way to Wake Up For eons, our bodies have adapted to sunrise and sunset to know when to wake up and when to sleep. In fact, a master body clock in the brain's hypothalamus uses these signals to regulate our sleep/wake cycles. When our sleep/wake cycles are working properly, we gradually fall asleep, and slowly wake up. However, modern lifestyles force us to alter our sleep/wake cycles and we miss these important cues. We struggle to wake up and our sleep suffers. Your body clock regulates this complicated process by cycling through different hormones and signals that induce sleep or wakefulness. This cycle is a gradual process-which is why you can't turn sleep off or on. Alarm clocks disrupt this cycle, making it more difficult to feel awake in the morning or sleep well at night. Instead of allowing our bodies to cycle through the last stages of sleep to consciousness, our alarm clocks abruptly jar us awake, interrupting the final stages of sleep. This causes a condition known as sleep latency and is why you struggle to get out of bed and get going. Sleep latency can last into the day and hurts your ability to get a restful sleep at night. Our bodies need signals like light and darkness to know when to be alert or when to go to sleep. Gradually increasing light-like sunrise-draws us out of sleep like nature intended. This scientific process, called sunrise simulation, allows your sleep stages to completely cycle, so you awaken refreshed-without sleep latency. 5 TrueDawn™ Technology