New innovation in sleep technology from Eight Sleep claims to alleviate night sweats and enhance deep sleep - let's delve into the details.
Eight Sleep, a leading innovator in sleep technology, has unveiled a new feature as part of their Women's Sleep Initiative. The Hot Flash Mode is designed to help women manage nighttime hot flashes, a common and disruptive symptom of menopause, menstrual cycles, pregnancy, and PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome).
The Hot Flash mode provides quick cooling to counteract hot flashes as soon as they occur. The rapid cooling feature works by spreading colder water through tubes lining the smart mattress cover, reducing the temperature of the bed surface. This targeted cooling is intended to minimize sleep disruption and restore thermal comfort in real time for optimal recovery every night.
The innovation is backed by extensive user research and clinical testing. Dr. Nicole Moyes, Ph.D., Senior Director of Science and Clinical Research at Eight Sleep, explained that women are more sensitive to nighttime temperature changes during these stages. Eight Sleep recognizes the need to use technology to solve women's sleep challenges and is starting with hot flashes.
Clinically tested, Hot Flash Mode significantly reduces the frequency and severity of hot flashes. For example, menopausal women using Eight Sleep's temperature regulation experienced 55% fewer nighttime hot flashes on average. The system tracks sleep quality, body temperature, and recovery metrics to adjust temperature dynamically, improving sleep comfort regardless of the user’s menstrual cycle phase or pregnancy status.
The Eight Sleep Pod cover offers dual-zone temperature control (between 110°F and 55°F), allowing customized cooling for each sleeper. This feature is particularly beneficial for couples with different temperature preferences and for women who experience fluctuating body temperatures during hormonal changes. The integration with an app lets users fine-tune their sleeping environment and use features like automatic temperature adjustment, vibration alarms, and sleep reports, thus enhancing overall sleep quality and recovery.
In addition, users can now access Hot Flash Reports in the Eight Sleep app to track the frequency, timing, and patterns of hot flashes throughout the night and from night to night. This feature provides valuable insights for understanding and managing hot flashes.
Eight Sleep's Hot Flash Mode is the latest addition to their smart bed technology, which is already considered some of the best on the market. The company has announced this new cooling feature as part of their commitment to the Women's Sleep Initiative, a major investment in women-focused sleep research, development of adaptive Pod features for menstrual, reproductive, and menopausal transitions, and collaborations with leading experts in reproductive health and sleep science.
Women can activate the rapid cooling feature of Eight Sleep's Hot Flash mode by tapping the embedded button on the side of the mattress cover. With this innovative feature, Eight Sleep is taking a significant step towards advancing knowledge and solutions around women's specific sleep issues.
Sources:
- Eight Sleep Website
- Clinical Study at the 2025 SLEEP conference
- Review of Eight Sleep Pod on CNET
- Article on Menopause and Sleep on Mayo Clinic
- Article on PCOS and Sleep on Harvard Health
The Hot Flash mode, a feature of Eight Sleep's smart mattress cover, quells hot flashes by swiftly spreading colder water through tubes, thereby creating rapid cooling and minimizing sleep disruptions for women who experience the symptom during menopause, menstrual cycles, pregnancy, or PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome). Overall, this targeted cooling is part of Eight Sleep's Women's Sleep Initiative, an endeavor to improve women's health and wellness by addressing specific sleep challenges such as hot flashes.
