what is the best sleeping position well let's find out
Hi I'm Dr. Lawrence woods from the Spinery and today we're going to show
you the absolute best sleeping position for your house
we all have favorite sleep positions mostly the fetal position based on our
findings from which we make no detour we just assume that every night we doze off
and don't put much thought into it however there are some specific positions for sleep that you may want to
consider because they're specific benefits to each and with that let's
proceed on and tackle some of them sleep on your side does wonders for your
cerebral health according to the Journal of Neuroscience is that it flushes out
aloud the harmful chemicals from your brain we already seem to be doing that
though two-thirds of people also prefer sleeping on their side but if you really want to get some extra gain an extra
benefits namely better digestion you should choose to sleep with your left
side down while you sleep and this is because the big four players of
digestion your your stomach your your liver your pancreas and bladder are all
on your left side and when you sleep on your side helps them handle waste
products and release enzymes that deal with fatty acids with no extra effort on
their part that way no food gets trapped in your stomach and you don't experience
anything bloating once it'll ever sleep it on your back also helps your neutral position as it soothes any pain your
back your neck your joints it reduces acid reflux because your heads above your stomach but beware sleeping is
position however especially if you don't live alone or if you have thin walls as you might develop a habit for snoring or
rather others might find you wake them up from the sound of your snoring if you go on the internet and you're looking at
sleep positions there's so many different philosophies so many different
opinions and they vary a lot but everybody I believe agrees on this one
thing and that is you should never sleep on your stomach and if you do this you
really need to work on trying to break that habit the reason being when you
sleep on it like here's a human spine here like this when you're sleeping on
your stomach you gotta breathe so you turned your head and causes a lot of
rotation in your neck increase low back problems and yada-yada-yada on and on
and on so so a good thing is if you if you're trying to break that habit I
recommend try putting a pillow between your knees and sleep on your side and that's I find that always necessary so
almost any sleeping position is valid and useful as long
you actually get to sleep because your sleep is probably one of the most
important things for your overall health and well-being as long as you find a
position that eases you into sleep and it's not on your stomach you should be
fine just make sure that you sleep well and that you sleep enough light so if you
want to get the perfect night's sleep let's talk about a few important tips for starters avoid blue light especially
at night Harvard Medical School did a study in 2014 and they found that
excessive exposure to blue light impedes the sleep hormone melatonin which
interferes with the circadian rhythm so looking at like for example your media
devices like TVs laptops phones at night can create a problem and the remedy for
this is quite simple oh and yes they also found that it also leads to
things like depression obesity certain types of cancer heart disease diabetes
and so forth and so on but the remedy is really simple and I'll give it to you
right down below as always or and what you do is actually you download this app
it's called flux and you can put this on your phone or your media device your TV
anything and as the day goes and start streaming the blue light away it's
really it's a real simple app to use or conversely if you want to go
old-fashioned low-tech you can get an old-fashioned incandescent yellow light
bulb and you can just point that at your media device and this should cancel out the blue wavelength frequency another
thing is I went online and I picked up just for a few bucks these glasses and
they're called non prescription blue blockers you can get them on Amazon and they in turn block out the blue light
which is detrimental to your health and your sleep especially light and of
course it's okay to start your morning's with blue light I'm not trying to
discourage you from get blue light but as the day gets going and especially
around light you want to start reducing your blue light exposure the next tip is
you should sleep cool and when designing our mattresses and pillows we always
wanted to use design and the appropriate materials to reduce the body's
temperature at night ideally about 1.2 degrees and there's been a lot of
research on this and I think there's a sweet spot and I think it's sixteen
point one degrees Celsius or if you're in the u.s. it's 61 degrees Fahrenheit I
believe so overheating is a problem and we've talked a lot about this on our
Channel and there's different types of foams and materials that can cause you to sleep hot and over heating can cause
hyperventilation and then your oxygen concentration your blood oxygen starts
to diminish and that really affects your sleep and so if you want to sleep chill
the room down and sleep with pillows or mattresses that don't heat you up
another tip is increasing your melatonin seems to be training right now and so if
you're gonna take these kind of supplements I don't recommend you should
do this on the long-term but my experiences don't take any more than two milligrams at night melatonin I found is
great for women especially going through menopause another alternative to
melatonin would be kava kava I think that's from Hawaii or even better cherry
juice or the Union cherries works well for a lot of people of course this goes
without saying get a decent or the best you can afford a mattress and a decent
pillow for example memory foam I love the way memory foam feels but I don't like the wave function because it keeps
me hot and it smells toxic being that it's a petroleum product and the other
thing latex is natural and it breeds well so you sleep cooler and I'm not
crazy about mattresses with Springs a coil spring mattress uses coils to
create tension but these brings lose their effectiveness and they can lead to
back pain sciatica neck pain shoulder pain additionally according to the
Scientific American under put this link down below box springs are half the
wavelength of TV and FM signals and are acting as an antenna potentially causing
cancer quite interesting spring coils are almost dinosaurs from the past that
are now training again to re-emerging No thank you this spring I can't sleep on them I hate
going to hotels where they have these things it's it's so so it's very lovely to sleep on good mattress a good quality
pillow so try if you're going to try some to try something later
latex natural latex get a latex mattress get a latex pillow next next
would be exercise you want to start winding down at night and at least two
hours before you go to sleep you want to stop exercising xr-- exercise is always best in the morning
reading reading before bed is always a great idea and it's a lovely way to get
you in the zone to sleep now here's a real big one a lot of research on this
routine routine is essential and there's a there's so much research on this so
get this folks when you go to bed and I mean seven days a week you want to go to
bed at the same time every single night and wake up at the same time every
single morning and and just stick with that for about two or three weeks and it
will become a routine and so as like like the movie Karate Kid it's wax on
wax off its is through these routines you develop mastery and all these things
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