With versatile, science-backed recovery tools, Bon Charge helps people stay grounded through the year’s most overstimulating stretch
While meant to help people celebrate, kick back and relax, the holidays aren’t always as advertised. For many, the period’s social, economic and travel demands apply a level of pressure that restricts or even negates the benefits that are supposed to come with the space they’re given to unwind.
“The holidays tend to put our nervous system into overdrive,” said Andy Mant, co-founder and CEO of Bon Charge. “There’s more socializing, more screens, more travel, later nights and people rarely give themselves the time to reset.”
Mant and Bon Charge, the Australia-based wellness tech brand, have been studying this disconnect between what the holidays promise and how they actually feel for several years. With devices that integrate into daily routines — now pressured further by office parties, cross-country trips and late nights of online shopping — Bon Charge beats the holiday hysteria.
Red Light Therapy
Bon Charge’s infrared PEMF mat calms the nervous system by increasing mitochondrial energy (ATP), helping users to feel refreshed and rejuvenated after doing yoga, stretching or just lying down on it.
“People tell us they use them after long days of hosting or traveling just to ‘come back into their body,’” Mant said.
While consumers often associate red light therapy with muscle recovery, the wellness practice goes far deeper than that. When the red light optimizes cellular energy production, it also increases brain functionality and decreases stress, which both help the body shift into a calmer, more stabilized state. It’s a practice that all kinds of individuals have found beneficial.
“We hear from entrepreneurs, athletes and high performers who use our devices before big meetings or intense training sessions because it helps them get into a focused, more grounded state,” Mant said. “Post-event or post-work, it does the opposite: it signals the body to downshift and decompress.”
Every Bon Charge red light therapy application is scientifically-backed and provides natural benefits. The PEMF mats and Bon Charge’s other red light devices all turn specific keys in the body that unlock improved living.
“The mindset-regulation benefits people report — clearer thinking, emotional balance, less reactivity — come from supporting the body’s natural systems: circadian rhythm, mitochondrial function and autonomic nervous system regulation,” Mant said. “It’s not ‘mindfulness’ in the abstract. It’s physiology.”
Silent Nights
Bon Charge also leverages red light to help individuals get a good night’s sleep before those big meetings, training sessions or trips. Along with its PEMF mat, the brand carries two red light therapy panels. By sitting in front of them, users can quickly shift their body into its parasympathetic state, also known as the body’s “rest mode,” and easily shut down.
“A 10-minute session in the evening is often enough to counter a full day of stimulation, overindulgence or travel fatigue,” Mant said.
Mant noted that sleep is often the first casualty of the holiday season, and because it underpins so many other physiological processes in the body, he believes it’s one of the most important to protect.
“Sleep is usually the first thing to fall apart during the holidays and the thing people feel the most the next morning,” said Mant. “We focus heavily on circadian support, because if your circadian rhythm is entrained ancestrally, your sleep quality improves even when life is chaotic.”
Bon Charge also assists with blue light blocking glasses, which, when worn before bed, eliminate melanopsin-sensitive junk light in the blue and green range. Doing so helps melatonin rise naturally, allowing people to fall asleep faster and enjoy high-quality rest.
Easy to Incorporate
However, impacts like these only matter if people can access them. There’s little-to-no point in making a cutting-edge, effective product if consumers can’t weave it into their lives, and Bon Charge recognizes that.
“The biggest barrier to wellness is usually time, not motivation,” Mant said. “Most people want to feel better, they just don’t have an extra hour in their day.”
For that reason, Bon Charge designs all its products around the idea of “high impact, low friction.” That involves creating devices that either fit between or piggyback on habits consumers have already established, bringing wellness into their lives seamlessly with no extra effort or time needed for usage.
“A two-minute exposure to red light when you wake up, or a five-minute session on a PEMF mat between meetings, can shift your entire physiology without demanding a big routine,” Mant said. “These micro-rituals, such as grounding, light exposure and nervous system regulation, are what help people stay balanced even during holiday chaos. Our job is to make recovery accessible in tiny windows throughout the day, so people don’t wait until burnout hits to care for themselves.”
Beyond the Holidays
While Bon Charge is proud to deliver wellness during this period where it’s most needed, the brand’s mission extends far beyond the holiday season. That’s why Bon Charge designs products that don’t just combat periodic stress, but establish habits that promote long-term well-being.
“Burnout, overstimulation and cognitive fatigue are chronic issues, not seasonal ones,” Mant said. “By focusing on circadian health, light hygiene, nervous system balance and cellular resilience, we support people in the areas that matter most, not just when things get difficult, but as a proactive way of living well, for longer…Our goal isn’t to create products people use occasionally, it’s to build tools that anchor their routines year-round, whether they’re training hard, traveling, working through stressful periods or recovering from social overload.”
In doing so, it’s also moving in unison with modern consumer demands.
“We’re entering a phase where people are no longer looking for ‘hacks,’” said Mant. “They want sustainable, science-backed habits that support their nervous system, their energy and their sleep, which are the real foundations of mental and physical performance.”
