About BODYBEDS™

Built From the Ground Up — The BODYBEDS™ Story

Some products are born in boardrooms. This one was born in a bedroom in Smyrna, Tennessee, by a 26-year-old who needed a solution no one else had thought to build.

My name is Dayton Sanders. I'm the founder, designer, builder, and until recently the only employee of BODYBEDS™.

Twenty Years of Living in My Body

I started playing baseball at four years old and didn't stop until I was twenty-four. Twenty years of training taught me something most people take a lifetime to learn: your body talks to you constantly, and if you're paying attention, it tells you exactly what it needs.

Around 2018, my body started telling me something was wrong. I noticed an imbalance in my neck and spine that I couldn't explain through training or injury. After digging into it, I traced it back to something I did every single night... sleeping on my stomach with my head turned to one side. Night after night, year after year, my body was being pulled out of alignment while I slept. I tried alternating sides, but my head always drifted back to its dominant side. There was no fix. There was no product. There was just a problem that nobody had solved.

I filed it away and kept playing.

The Long Way Around

After baseball I wanted to build something of my own, but I didn't know what yet. I spent five months searching, took a job as a fiber optic technician, picked up bartending on the side, and started writing everything down: questions, ideas, things that bothered me, things I wanted to exist in the world. Over eight months I filled pages with about fifteen potential business ideas.

One day I went back through those notes and one concept stopped me in a way the others didn't. The prone sleeping mattress. A full bed designed around how stomach sleepers actually sleep with tunnels for the face and arms, real spinal decompression, and a surface that works with your body instead of against it.

I paid off my student loans, walked away from fiber optics, and started building.

Built by Hand, in a Bedroom

The first version looked nothing like what BODYBEDS™ is today. I taught myself how to sew. I figured out how to cut and reshape foam without it collapsing under body weight. I engineered hardboard supports and designed templates from scratch. Sewing three-dimensional shapes is genuinely difficult there was no YouTube tutorial for what I was trying to do. I solved each problem as it came.

I invested into 2 patents. I studied sleep science, circadian rhythm, adenosine, melatonin, cellular and mitochondrial health. Alongside the kinesiology and exercise science I studied in college. What felt like a winding academic path with baseball, sport science, kinesiology, physical education, it turned out to be exactly the foundation this product needed. Understanding the human body in three-dimensional space was never abstract for me. It was always practical. It was always personal.

BODYBEDS™ is now on its third design iteration and is patent pending for both utility and design.

Why This Matters

I deal with a herniated disc in my lower back from a weightlifting injury. I know what it feels like to live with chronic physical discomfort and to search for something that actually helps. I also know what it's like to want to read, write, or just decompress at the end of a long day without your neck craning and your arms going numb.

BODYBEDS™ gives your body what it was always asking for a surface that lets you fully rest, recover, and breathe in the position you actually sleep in. Not the position a traditional mattress forces you into.

I built this product for myself during one of the harder seasons of my life. Working on it by learning, building, and problem-solving was what kept me moving forward. I believe that when you pour that kind of energy into something, great thing are on the other side.

This bed is the most honest thing I've ever made. I hope it does for you what it did for me.

— Dayton Sanders, Founder of BODYBEDS™ Smyrna, Tennessee