Two out of three pillars, I controlled. The third one eluded me.

What I was experiencing, without having words for it

I've been training for twenty years. Twenty years I've been careful about what I eat. These two pillars, I uphold.

The third, I wasn't controlling at all. And I hadn't even realized it until much later.

I woke up tired. Not exceptionally, not some mornings worse than others — just tired, almost every day. Often a bit gloomy upon waking. Dry mouth, systematically.

It took a lot of coffee to get going. Not coffee for pleasure, but coffee to function.

I've never had health problems. I want to make that clear. I wasn't sick. I recovered poorly. That's not the same thing.

There was also something else, which I discovered indirectly rather than on my own: there were mornings when my wife wasn't in bed when I woke up. I'd find her on the couch — I snored so much she couldn't sleep next to me.

I trained for twenty years. I ate well for twenty years. And at night, something wasn't working.

The Watch

I started wearing a connected watch that tracks sleep. Not for performance. Out of curiosity, at first.

What I saw stopped me cold: my deep sleep phases were thin. My breathing at night wasn't what I thought it was.

You can't act on what you don't see. It's as simple as that. I paid attention to my diet and training for twenty years because I could measure them, feel them, adjust them. My nocturnal breathing, I had never seen it. So I had never worked on it.

What I tested — and what didn't work

Once the problem was identified, I wanted to try closing my mouth at night to breathe through my nose. The idea isn't new, I knew that. What surprised me was how unsuitable what was already on the market was.

I tested closed models, without a central opening: the feeling of being trapped, with my mouth completely sealed, prevented me from falling asleep peacefully.

I tested simple strips: they didn't stay on until morning. I found them peeled off, somewhere in the bed or on the floor.

I tested other shapes too, which simply didn't fit correctly on my face.

None of these products seemed designed to adapt to different faces and practices. Each had been designed for one use, one face, one situation — not to adjust to what each person actually experiences at night.

I didn't design or manufacture anything. I tested several models available on the market, and I ended up selecting the one that suited the most people — beginner, advanced, expert. It's not an invention. It's a choice, made after eliminating what didn't work.

Everlyss is not the point

What I sought to fix was this third pillar — the one I never monitored, even though I monitored everything else for twenty years.

The product is just a means. What matters is what happens while you sleep, and how you feel when you wake up.

What I experience, not what I measure

I'm not going to talk about measured results or numbers. I'm going to talk about what I experience.

I wake up with more energy. That moment when you open your eyes, even before getting up — I experience it differently than before.

Morning coffee has become a pleasure again. Not a crutch.

And according to my wife, I hardly snore anymore.

Two pillars upheld for twenty years. The third, I am finally upholding too.