What if you could recharge your body the same way you recharge your phone? In this episode, Dr. Fab Mancini sits down with Alyssa Blue, aerospace engineer turned Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and co-founder of Align Mat, to explore how cutting-edge wellness technology can help restore balance, reduce stress, and unlock your body’s natural healing potential. Alyssa shares her personal health journey, the science behind PEMF and infrared therapy, and why creating space for rest and recovery is essential in today’s fast-paced world.
Highlights:
4:16 – Modern Solution for Modern Problems
By combining PEMF therapy with other synergistic technologies, the Align Mat restores cellular energy and counters the effects of modern stressors such as EMFs, toxins, and time pressure.
09:39 – Research-Driven Design
Every component and frequency used in the Align Mat is based on extensive research, including proprietary technology designed to optimize energy and healing outcomes.
12:08 – Clinical Results for Sleep and Recovery
Studies show that a 15-minute session on the Align Mat can increase deep sleep by up to 30% and improve heart rate variability by 26%, delivering benefits for athletes and individuals with chronic illness.
14:39 – Transformational Testimonial
At the Huntsman World Senior Games, a woman struggling with pain and insomnia experienced her first full night’s sleep in a decade after using the Align Mat, showing its potential for life-changing results.
20:21 – Safety and Contraindications
The Align Mat is safe for most users, but those with electronic implants like pacemakers should avoid it, and pregnant women are advised to consult their healthcare provider due to limited clinical data.
About the Guest:
Alyssa Blue is the co-founder of ALIGN (Align Mat) and a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDNP) who blends her background as a former aerospace engineer with her passion for health and wellness. After facing a personal health crisis in her early twenties, she shifted from engineering into functional nutrition, focusing on uncovering root causes of imbalance rather than masking symptoms. Drawing from both her scientific training and her own healing journey, Alyssa co-developed the Align mat, which integrates PEMF therapy, far-infrared heat, and crystals to support recovery, energy, and balance. Her work emphasizes bioindividuality and empowers people to take charge of their health through both technology and lifestyle.
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We're helping take off all of that burden, shifting the body out of a stress response state so we can go into what's known as rest and digest where it's really up, regulating all of the energy so that alignment is like a human charging pad. So now the body is willing to accept the energy that this tool is providing, and you heal yourself more efficiently. Hi.
Alyssa Blue:Dr. Fab Mancini: This is Dr fab Mancini, and I'm so excited to be able to bring to you one of my favorite technologies out there, and that is my align map. Now I have the founder and co founder, Alyssa blue. Alyssa, it's so great to see you once again.
Alyssa Blue:Thank you so much for having me on today.
Unknown:Well, you know, it's interesting because you have such an extensive background. And you know, I've been in this space in healthcare for quite some time, and it's very hard to find people with your background, as your aerospace engineer. How did you come up with the understanding that maybe we needed an engineering solution to not only get better sleep and ground our bodies and be able to bring homeostasis or balance to the body? Tell me a little bit about how did this idea come about and and I see you've been revolutionizing healthcare with this, my alignment. I'm one of your biggest customers, so I know that I love it, but I want you to tell me a little bit about how this all began.
Alyssa Blue:had when we joined forces in:Alyssa Blue:Dr. Fab Mancini: You know? And that's one of the things that I love about it, is because it's so practical, not only practical, like you've seen me, that I travel with mine everywhere I go. I mean, we move it around the house in different rooms depending on where we are, but also the fact that you've combined some of the best technologies that we in science have seen over the last few years that are really making a difference in the body. But let's pretend that the listeners right now, right whether they're watching this or listening to this during my clinic, you're gonna be actually sharing with them what exactly is happening while they're laying in this myelin mat. Tell me a little bit about what is the role of PM, PEMF. I mean, maybe somebody may or may not understand what that is, and why did you combine it with some of the other technologies?
Alyssa Blue:ave evolved on this earth for:Alyssa Blue:things into our wall, PEMF actually changes this waveform into something that's harmonizing for the DNA of our body, and it helps us heal ourselves faster.
Unknown:Well, one of the things that we know is that there's a lot of interest out there for people right now to look outside of the traditional healthcare because, as you know, recently, the administration share that we have over 76% of the American citizen, and that includes the children, unfortunately, that have chronic diseases. So there's a lot of people out there that are now saying, Okay, I know my medicine may be managing my symptoms, but it's not getting to the root cause. So tell me a little bit about as a scientist, what are some of the root causes that you are really targeting? So people understand that this is foundational healing. This is not just something that manages your symptom just for a quick fix where you're going to get some relief. This is actually getting to the root cause that caused your symptoms in the first place, and that's why the machine has become so popular, not only in the consumer market, but you have so many doctors that are using it in their practices because of the impact that is having in their patients, absolutely.
Alyssa Blue:So it's, you know, Spectrum wide, whether someone wants to bring this tool into their home or leverage it at a Wellness Center, it's really meeting people where they're at, and it's very accessible. So again, going back to the philosophy that nature didn't make a mistake in almost all cause of disease and incident, like the rise in chronic disease that we're seeing is stress related. So how can we unburden the body and help it come back into balance? The alignment is an amazing break from all of the things that we're constantly exposed to. So when you're laying on the technology, we leverage eight copper cores in the mat so it's enveloping the body in the bubble of this essential healing frequency. Now the mat doesn't heal you, but I will let the listeners know if they don't believe this, yet, your body is healing every moment of every day. We have infinite wisdom in every single cell organ system in our body that is replicating and dividing beautiful, healthy new cells every single day when we're being chased by these metaphorical Tigers out in the real world. Again, like waiting like on guard if we're in traffic and for someone to cut us off, or, you know, not getting a good night of sleep, or constantly having our phone up to our head, all of these things again that are really stressful for the body. We're helping again, take off all of that burden, shifting the body out of a stress response state so we can go into what's known as rest and digest where it's really up, regulating all of the energy so that alignment is like a human charging pad. So now the body is willing to accept the energy that this tool is providing, and you heal yourself more efficiently.
Unknown:Now, when you guys were working together to try to build these technologies together, right? Because you've assembled not only incredible technologies in one map, but you also have protocols that you devised over the time to ensure the effectiveness that it has on the people that use it. Tell me a little bit about as you were developing this. How is it that you wanted to differentiate yourself from every other thing out there that may be claiming a similar outcome?
Alyssa Blue:Thanks for that question. Yeah, it's definitely. PEMF has become quite the buzzword in the biohacking and holistic health space. So there are a lot of companies out there that are buying subpar components and putting products together, and we're not here to poo poo on what anyone else is doing. I just can speak from the fact that this is why we did a two and a half year deep. Five not only into the published 60 to 80 years of research that exists out there to substantiate why and how powerful PEMF is, but looking at what waveform to use. What is the hertz, the frequency spectrum that was most beneficial to the body? What is the Gauss level? So that means magnetic intensity that the body is willing and able to accept to actually help shift the nervous system. So that's our main focus. Again, it's not trying to force the body to do anything. That is literally why our company is called align. We're aligning with the fact that your body knows how to heal itself, and we're allowing it, the set and setting, to be able to do that better. So down to every single component that we've put in the mat. So we source all of our stones directly from mines across the globe. We take it a step further, and we do certification on batch certification of these stones to make sure that they are authentic. So that's something that you are guaranteed to get with a line. We don't use any copper heating elements in the mat that produce dirty electricity. We're only using carbon fiber heating elements within the MAT, so heats thoroughly, evenly, and it's protecting the body from, again, that dirty electricity. And then the real rock star of the mat is the PEMF, those copper coils. And we leverage something that's proprietary to us called Organic Schumann Resonance mimicking technology. So osrm, where it puts you in the driver's seat of your frequency destiny. So you get to choose programs, from enhancing deep sleep quality all the way up to energizing the body
Alyssa Blue:to really help reduce we can talk about the inflammation word, but helps energize the body. So you're uptaking nutrition, detoxifying cellular waste, and really working at the mitochondrial level to produce that unit of energy called ATP, more efficiently.
Unknown:Well, I know that you were also taking care of a lot of athletes in the world of sports. This has become something that not only did the athletes buy for themselves at home, but many of the training centers are now having your mats as part of their process. Tell me a little bit about as an athlete, how would I leverage the mat to be able to enhance my performance, or potentially my recovery too?
Alyssa Blue:That's so funny, because it's kind of like their secret weapon. So a lot of athletes who like they leverage it on an elite level, and if they start performing better, you think they would want to share, and they're like, No, this is from my edge, so where we're seeing and we're actually doing clinical research. So that also substantiates our claims and sets us apart from any other low intensity PEMF mat on the market space. We're seeing upwards of a 30% improvement in deep sleep quality in a single 15 minute session. So this is from someone's first time ever having exposure to low intensity PEMF on the Align mat. So this is specific to us, and when an athlete, or anyone for that matter, gets better rest when you're sleeping, especially in deep sleep. So we're not just talking about, you know, and one and two sleep. We're talking about like deep REM sleep. When someone's getting into that level of sleep, they're healing themselves more effectively. This is where the body heals itself. This is where the brain takes out the trash for the night and reconsolidates memory. So sleep, next to oxygen and hydration, is like the top three things that our body needs to repair itself. So we look at that as a game changer, whether it be in chronic, long standing illness or an elite level, improving their performance is getting deep sleep. And then secondly, when we talk about a lot of the disease responses in the body, and things that are happening when you're helping someone reduce stress, which also under clinical research, we're seeing upwards of a 26% improvement in heart rate variability, which has also become a buzzword, but it's such a powerful metric, because it's our stress resilience. For anyone that's listening that doesn't know what heart rate variability is, it's basically the measurable distance in between heartbeats, and the shorter that distance is, the higher someone's stresses and the lower their resilience is. So we're actually
Alyssa Blue:seeing a measurable improvement in heart rate variability with our with the alignment and our testing.
Unknown:rs, you and Mike probably get:Alyssa Blue:I will say there is not a show that we do a lot of conferences, and I don't think there's a show that's gone by that hasn't brought tears to my eyes from someone having some story that they share. But one in particular, we worked the Huntsman World Senior Games last October, and this is 12,000 athletes age 50 plus, from around the world that come and participate. The oldest gentleman we ever had on the mat was 97 years old, and he was a power Walker. So it was really cool and inspiring for us to see what's possible for humans and like this is where the trajectory of health and wellness is going. And so many people don't even know this exists. So this one woman, Doris, got on the mat, skeptical she wasn't competing in the games her husband was she just laid down to take a break while he was playing basketball, and she comes back the next day, and she's like, Hey, do you mind if I try the mat again? I'm like, yeah, no problem. She after she gets up the second time she goes. I have to tell you, I have probably more metal in my body than anyone you know. She had had neck surgery, had plates in her in her neck, in her spine. She had a fall that left her with plates and screws in her ankle. She's like, I haven't slept through the night in 10 years. I sleep with pain medication. I still get up four to five times a night to go to the bathroom or because I'm just in pain and my body doesn't ever get comfortable. She goes. Last night was the first night I slept through the night. And you're just, you're listening to this woman's story, and like, you can see the pain in her eyes, but then you see the relief. And she's like, I'm a skeptic. I don't know if I believe it. Can I come back tomorrow and the Senior Games goes on for like, a full two weeks, and she came back four times that week, and the last night, she's like, I didn't I had no pain medication last night, and I slept through the night, so it's just like hearing these stories is for us.
Alyssa Blue:There's nothing better. I mean, it brings tears to our eyes. This is really the mission of why we're doing this is to help people actualize their true potential and be the best version of themselves that they
Alyssa Blue:Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, you know, I'm a testament to that, because I recently saw the lines of people waiting to get on the alignment, and then I was watching their transformation, their emotions. Some of them were crying, some of them were laughing, some of them were just so appreciative. And that's after 15 minutes. I personally, I remember, I don't know if you remember, I took a 10 minute break in between my speaking, and I just lay there, and I still could not believe what how restful I felt in such a short amount of time that it made my whole body feel so good. And that's when I said to you. I said, we have to bring this to more people. I mean, it's amazing, and let's talk a little bit more from a practical component. You have a lot of people that buy this map for their home. Some of them may be single, some of them may be married, some of them may have families. So tell me a little bit about what are some of the most practical best uses or things that people have told you how they use it themselves, in order to ensure that you're using it every day, and also for every main member of that household, and that's one of the things that is so important to understand. And I'm not talking about just the humans, because I know that you also helping a lot of pets out there. But let's talk a little bit about the family integrity. How does a line math if I put them in my house, what are some of the best behaviors that you have found where people can really maximize the potential of helping every member of the family be healthier.
Alyssa Blue:Well, first, thank you for believing in our mission and seeing the value. I mean, you took a five minute, two hour power nap, and it was so amazing to watch your transformation. When you got off the mat and you're like, Wow, I feel so refreshed. And it's like, it's surprising. So you're like, you don't go in with an expectation, and you're like, Oh, this is pretty cool. So, and it still blows our mind. And we created this over three, you know, two and a half years of research we've been launched for three years now, so five and a half years of our life. And like every time we have a testimonial, it still blows our mind. So bringing it into the home is really special, because now you're talking about the entire family getting to use this. Watch out. If you do have pets, they will push you out of the way to get on the mat, because they know what feels good for them, and that's always so cool to see kids and pets gravitate towards the frequencies, because they're not bound to the placebo effect. They know what feels good to them, and they don't lie. So when we're doing shows, I mean, we did the Expo West. It's the largest Natural Products Expo in March, we had a little toddler that literally, like, let go of its Mom's hand and walked up to the mat. So it's just really fun to see this in real time. So because everyone in the family can use it, and it is daily and compoundingly beneficial to the body to help literally recharge our cells, leaving it out in some place that's accessible. Like, we have multiple mats up on our loft area, and they're on the floor. I know that, like when we do shows, people see them on massage tables, but they're super versatile. So people think that they have to, like, lay down and be like, like a corpse on the mat. Like, no, you can do movement. Literally, you could do yoga on the mat. You could lay on your belly on the mat. We have had people that sleep all night on the mat, if it's comfortable for them, so it
Alyssa Blue:really meets you where you're at. We have families like, you know, moms that read to their kids on their mat and help them calm them down before bed at night. So it really, it's something that can meet you where you're at in your day, and just make sure, I mean, the worst place for it is a. Its bag under a bed somewhere. It's not gonna do you any value. So make sure that you can keep it out and have it accessible
Alyssa Blue:Dr. Fab Mancini: Well, and talking about the safety of it too. Are there any contraindications, or any type of patients that you don't recommend, or any type of people that you don't recommend, they do the mat at this time based upon whatever they may be going through, like pregnancy and others.
Alyssa Blue:So thank you for bringing that up, and just you mentioned pregnancy. So I'll touch on that only because there have never been any clinical studies done on what they consider a temporary condition in western medicine. So a woman is only pregnant for nine months. So there's no one that spends the millions of dollars to do the testing and research to prove that it's safe. Low Intensity PEMF is meaning like our mat is operating at a lower Gauss, well below the range that would be considered even a risk. I don't know if you've been in a lot of hospitals, so they have like a five Gauss line before you get into an MRI machine room. So anyone that has a pacemaker should not go past that line. So as a caveat, we will say that anyone that has an electronic implant like a pacemaker or nerve stimulator that it's contraindicated. But anyone under the under the watch of a healthcare provider and a practitioner should definitely, you know, make sure this is safe for them to use.
Unknown:So that's great, and I think that's really important to bring out, because many times when we see technologies that we have to plug in, a lot of times they say, Oh, if you have a pacemaker or if you happen to have seizures or if you're pregnant, you know, they're just safety factors. And that's one of the things that I love the most about your technology, is the safety component of it, and how low the dosage that is, that is more of a natural frequency that allows the body just to activate itself and do its healing. I mean, that's one of the things that I've been talking about forever, is that the body has the ability to heal given the proper conditions. And this is one thing that sets an environment. So in the science. We call it epigenetics, so we know that if you surround yourself and the cell with the right environment, the cell has the chance that it's going to function much higher and better than if it doesn't. So for me, the alignment is more about creating the the environment for the body to actually be able to do what it's meant to do, and that is to be healing every single moment of the day, to be resting, repairing and all of the body what the body needs so it doesn't break down based on the levels of stress, etc. Now we talked a little bit about the home, but I also want to talk about what are some of the best ways you can use it as a provider, I know as a chiropractor, we have many of our chiropractors that are using it before the adjustment and after the adjustment, because it's a great way. We also have some that have aligned therapy wings, which everybody just lays there and gets a 15 minute treatment, just so that way they can go home feeling amazing after the chiropractic visit. What are some of the other ways that clinicians or medical spas are using the align so that way their customers can benefit from this technology?
Alyssa Blue:Yeah, so the versatility is huge. So you're mentioning chiropractic, where not just in a hands on manipulation, where the before and after is really advantageous before any modality is advantageous. So your clients are walking in off the street, they're stressed out again. Nervous System full sympathetic overdrive is basically like invisible armor that we wear all day long. So anytime that you can help someone unwind and shift first, before doing an IV treatment, before doing any like physical therapists. We have a lot of our mats and physical therapists office before they do any sort of exercises with them. It's helping posturally, it's helping someone mentally like, just be more focused, calm, mood stability. So it's great before even just say hyperbarics, because then the body up takes the oxygen more effectively. So it's really amazing companion before any modality. So your clients now not waiting in a waiting room anymore, they're actually getting an additional service and then as an added benefit, because it's such a great recovery tool. After you do a chiropractic adjustment or a manual manipulation, having them again lay on the mat for five minutes, recenter and then go out into the world, they hold the adjustment longer. So it's really fantastic to see in real time. So for someone, like in an IV lounge, it's actually really cool, because you'll watch them uptake the nutrition and like, half the time. So that's pretty earth shattering when someone gets like seeing is believing. But then if in a massage or an acupuncture setting, you can actually have the mat on the table, so you're unraveling. People are softening into the mat. Their fascia is open, fluids flowing and energetic connections are happening through the meridians. So they'll experience in real time the benefits of the mat and how relaxed they feel during the session, and how how much longer they're getting benefits from their treatment.
Unknown:Well, it's funny, because. Recently, I was talking to a yoga instructor, and she uses it for herself whenever she goes and teaches a class, and she's now recommending her clients to use it. Let's talk a little bit about sleep, because I want you to talk a little bit more about the protocols that you have found, because right now, one of the biggest causes of chronic disease is the lack of sleep. It just breaks down the body. As you know, the cortisol levels get so high and all of a sudden people cannot rest and be able to manage the challenges that they face that day. So tell me a little bit about what are some of the best protocols you found to be able to use a line right before you go to sleep to ensure a restful sleep.
Alyssa Blue:Yeah. I mean, that's so true. People are dealing with such a dysregulation of their circadian rhythm, the cortisol is high at night, so they feel wired and tired. They can't stop the mind chatter. They have the blue light. So there's all these things that are disabling them from getting deep, quality sleep. What's really cool again, in our clinical studies is that we're seeing upwards of a 30% improvement in deep sleep quality with a single session done at any point in time during the day. So they can go into a Wellness Center in the mid afternoon or the late morning at any point in time, so it doesn't have to be right before bed. And what happens is, when you're giving yourself so every one of our cells in our body, and we have over 37 trillion of them, is like a little battery. So when you recharge your cellular batteries, those cells perform as designed. So again, including sleep. It sounds so counterintuitive. Where you're like, I have more energy. How can I sleep deeper? Well, this is cellular energy. So when the cells perform as they should, your body operates as it should, and it can relax when someone has this in their home and they have it, you know, they don't have to book an appointment or drive anywhere. Our typical recommendation is to energize the morning with doing a higher like a 39.6 which is the highest human resonance program we have in our mat, or 40 to 50 hertz setting, which is like athletic recovery, but also, again, helps to energize and amplify the body so they have that good cognition, that good like for the day, and then at night, to calm down the mind chatter, we have a delta wave program that's like a low and slow frequency that helps calm the mind down, helps relax the cells in the body and gets us primed for deep sleep.
Unknown:Well, I know that the people that are watching right now are probably all saying, Okay, how do I get one of those? And I'm going to put a link right here so you'll be able to get it right away. And all I can tell you is you're going to love it, and I know you're going to thank me for it, because I only bring you things that I use myself and things that I know that are going to be amazing for you, to allow you to live your best life, to allow you to have the health that you're meant to have, and to stop being a statistic to these chronic diseases that we can actually reverse, that we can change our lifestyle, that we have technology, that they align mad to be able to help us be able to function much better. But in one last question, Alyssa, when you're thinking about people that may or may not think, oh, you know, I'm not convinced yet. If this is something for me, what would you say to them that you wish you know everybody in the world will know, because you and Mike live at this every single day. You put so much effort, energy, money, money time into bringing this technology to the world. What is the one thing you want them to know to ensure that they should at least try it and experience it for themselves?
Alyssa Blue:Yeah, this was something that I needed for myself. I am coming to you with someone I consider a recovering type A I burned the candle at both ends of my early 20s. I got sick. I thought my body was betraying me, and I was trying to keep all of these plates spinning, being a perfectionist and an overachiever and really understanding that the body is not a machine. It's this beautiful, intelligent organism that's designed to heal and we get this one vessel to go through this lifetime with, and if we just nourish it and take some time to be be a human being, instead of a human doing, it will take care of us, and we cannot work ourselves out or calorie deficit ourselves into the health that we want love on this vessel more, and it will take care of you and definitely alignmat is an amazing companion and a tool to help you actualize and realize that potential in a much shorter time. So I hope everyone will, you know, love on yourself a little bit harder, love the world a little bit more, and give us a try to see how good you could really feel.
Unknown:And you know, that's one of the things that I tell you. When I met you and Mike, I could feel the love that you have poured in this technology, because you can feel it. I mean, as soon as you lay on it, you can actually feel this is being made with a lot of love, you know. And it shouldn't be like made in the US. It should be made with love, you know. Because the reality of it is is amazing technology, and I really commend you. For bringing I know you're taking your science backgrounds and bringing it to this platform of healthcare, and we need great products out there that are evidence based and and I've seen some of the research you've done, and I just can't believe how great results people are getting. And that's really what I want people to understand. Being healthy doesn't have to be expensive. Being healthy doesn't have to be difficult. Being expensive Can I mean being healthy can be very practical, and that's really one of these things, that you have a mat, and you can carry that mat anywhere you go. There's nowhere that you can go with it, and then all you have to do is lay on it, and you're going to feel the difference within 15 minutes. You can stay longer if you want to. That's why it's important to own it. I know that if you don't want to own one, then go find a provider. You can call them and find a provider near you that has some so that way you can benefit from them too. So Well, thank you, Alyssa. Thank you so much for the time. For those of you that are listening, I'm going to put the link right here, you'll see all the information and make sure that you get your align mat today, all I can tell you is you're going to be so happy when it arrives in the mail, as soon as you unpack it, you're going to be so happy that you're going to be able to lay on it. And guess what? It's not just for you, it's for every member of that household that has a body that can benefit from this technology, and that's what I get excited about, because
Unknown:we're all about making sure that our children have the best chance to be healthy, and our statistics and our children are the worst they've ever been in the history of humanity. So make sure that you bring it to the household, the level of technology that's actually going to support them and allow them to be healthy, so they can have the best life, so they can be successful, so they can actually be happy. Because most of the time the reason we're not happy is because we're unhealthy. There's nothing to be happy about when you're not feeling good, you know, so thank you, Alyssa, thank you guys for listening. Click on the link right now. Get you a line, Matt, right now. I know you're gonna love it. I promise you see you soon.