Sleep isn’t just about duration. It’s about quality, comfort, and how refreshed you feel when you wake up. That’s where Bear Mattress’s Sleep Recovery Technology™ comes in. Engineered with athletes and active lifestyles in mind, this technology is designed to support deeper rest, better recovery, and an overall more rejuvenating night’s sleep.
What Is Celliant?
Celliant® is a proprietary textile technology made from a blend of thermoreactive minerals embedded into fibers. These minerals absorb your body heat and convert it into infrared energy, which is then reflected back toward the body.
In practical terms, Celliant is designed to:
- Promote increased local circulation
- Support tissue oxygenation
- Help the body recover more efficiently
- Maintain a comfortable sleep temperature
Unlike coatings or chemical treatments, Celliant is infused directly into the fiber itself, meaning the technology does not wash out or wear off over time.
Where Can I Find Celliant?
Celliant is at the heart of Bear’s Sleep Recovery Technology™. We’ve partnered with Celliant to offer a performance mattress cover infused with infrared-emitting fibers. This woven cover is available as an upgrade for select Bear mattresses.
While all our beds are designed for spine-aligning support and optimal pressure relief, our Celliant Infused Cover option gives sleepers an added edge for muscle recovery and cooling. It’s currently offered with Elite Hybrid, Star Hybrid, Pro Hybrid, and Bear Original.
How Does Celliant Work?
Celliant fibers are embedded with a blend of natural bioceramic minerals, meaning they interact with your biological systems. These minerals absorb heat from your body and reflect it back as infrared energy, which has long been studied for its ability to penetrate tissue, offering recovery benefits at the cellular level.
This process also helps regulate body temperature, keeping you cool when it’s warm and warm when it’s cool. With your temperature in check, you can sleep through the night without tossing and turning to throw off the covers or steal them back from your partner.
The Celliant Cycle:
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Your body naturally gives off heat while you sleep as a byproduct of metabolism
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Celliant’s bioresponsive fibers capture excess body heat
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Body heat is converted to infrared energy
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Infrared energy is reflected back toward your body
What Is Infrared Energy?
Infrared energy is a form of light that sits between visible light and microwaves within the electromagnetic spectrum. Although it can’t be seen by the human eye, it has a host of potential health benefits and therapeutic applications because it can penetrate below the skin and reach your joints, muscles, and blood vessels.
The technology used for Celliant textiles (like Bear’s mattress covers) is the same that’s used for infrared saunas. While red light therapy is common for dermatology, Celliant emits longer wavelengths for results below the surface. It leverages full-spectrum (near, mid, and far) infrared light to affect soft tissues and their cellular activity.
Ongoing Research on Infrared
Infrared therapy is still an emerging field of study, but early studies indicate that it may be a non-invasive tool for improving cardiovascular health and treating symptoms of chronic diseases like diabetes, kidney disease, and ischemia.
When it comes to muscle recovery, this study from the Journal of Athletic Training highlights the positive effects of infrared light therapy on attenuating (reducing) strength loss after resistance exercise. Celliant has also published 11 peer-reviewed studies of their own that demonstrate the efficacy of Celliant fabrics in areas of athletic performance, recovery, sleep quality, and pain relief.
Benefits of Celliant for Sleep and Recovery
Focusing specifically on overnight recovery, , Celliant’s infrared technology offers two key benefits: 1) It improves local circulation and 2) increases cellular oxygenation. Because these processes play a key role in your body’s natural thermoregulation, Celliant also helps you sleep more comfortably in warm or cool environments.
Celliant’s Impact:
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Improves local circulation
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Increases cellular oxygenation
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Assists temperature regulation
Why does circulation matter? Celliant’s guide to Local Circulation: Improving Wellness + Performance with Increased Blood Flow explains it best. Healthy blood flow is how the cells in your muscles and other tissues get the oxygen and nutrients they need, and it helps the removal of metabolic waste. With improved local circulation, there’s more oxygen available to the cells for cellular respiration.
Additional Celliant Benefits:
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It’s non-invasive
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Celliant fibers recycle your own body heat
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Relies on natural minerals, not chemicals
Quality Sleep for Maximum Efficiency
For many people, particularly those with busy, physically demanding lifestyles, quality rest is essential for performance, mood, and overall well-being. By partnering with Celliant, Bear aims to create mattresses that not only feel comfortable and supportive, but also enhance biological processes linked to rest and recovery. Whether you’re recovering from a tough workout or just want to feel more refreshed in the morning, the idea behind Sleep Recovery Technology ™ is to make your rest work harder for you while you sleep.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Celliant made from?
Celliant’s exact formula is proprietary, but it consists of a mix of naturally occurring minerals with the ability to absorb and reflect energy. These minerals must be activated by a heat source to emit infrared light. Once milled, these bioceramic minerals are finely ground into a powder, added to a carrier, and then embedded into fibers that are blended with other materials to construct our mattress covers.
Does Celliant help with muscle recovery?
Yes, Celliant is designed to assist muscle recovery by converting excess body heat into full-spectrum infrared energy and reflecting that energy towards the body while you sleep. Infrared wavelengths penetrate tissues, offering recovery benefits at the cellular level. Peer-reviewed studies with transcutaneous oximetry (TcPO2) testing demonstrate that Celliant increases tissue oxygenation, improving local circulation. Healthy blood flow is essential to muscle recovery, as it delivers nutrients for repair and facilitates waste removal.
Does Celliant improve sleep quality?
A sleep pilot study found that nighttime awakenings, sleep quality, and sleep efficiency improved for subjects with chronic back pain using a mattress cover with Celliant fibers. Key findings included an 18.3-minute reduction in the median time spent awake at night after falling asleep, and a 2.6% increase in median sleep efficiency.
What’s the best infrared mattress for muscle recovery?
The Bear Hybrid Elite is our best mattress for muscle recovery. It combines pressure-relieving foams, targeted lumbar support coils, cooling materials, and infrared energy technology for restorative rest. The Celliant Infused Cover converts body heat to infrared energy, which is reflected towards the body to improve local circulation and increase cellular oxygenation, supporting muscle recovery.
Disclaimer: Bear does not provide medical advice. All resources on the Bear blog, including this article, are informational only and do not replace professional medical counsel. Talk to your doctor about any health, mental health, or sleep-related issues.
