The bedroom is the most desired place we want to spend our time and relax after a tiring day at work. Also, it is the place people spend most of their time throughout life. The reason is that the average person sleeps for around eight hours daily. A third of our lives we spend in sleeping.
People prefer to sleep in many different ways. Sleeping on the left or right side, on the back or curled up in a fetal position are the most common sleeping positions. What you don’t know is that each of these positions can have a bad or good effect on your health.
For example, sleeping on the back is not good for people suffering from asthma or sleep apnea because it raises the risks related to breathing problems. Moreover, sleeping on your right side can worsen digestive problems. These negative effects also cause less and lower quality sleep.
Sleeping on the left side is the best sleeping position in terms of the benefits it has on our health. One of them is better digestion. Also, it improves the overall digestive system so that is allows the body to extract nutrients and eliminate toxins faster and more effectively. This sleeping position also affects circulation and cardiovascular health because the heart better pumps downhill and the blood circulates with greater power back to the heart.
Moreover, the left side position permits for bile and wastes to travel more freely through the body and improves the function of the spleen. This leads to improved lymphatic drainage and more toxins getting out of the body, with less general stress and negative influence to our health.
The position you take while sleeping can make a great difference on your health. So, if you are not sleeping on your left side, try to do that as soon as possible. Each person has a preferred way of sleeping, but you can change this habit. For example, you can switch on a light that is located on the right side. This will make your body face away from the light and so you will turn on to the left side.
Thanks, Paul. At least I’m doing one thing right. LOL
🙂 your fortunate Angel. I start hurting if i stay in one position to long. old age sucks.
What I’ve found helpful is tossing and turning all night. That’s what I do. I’m not sure if it’s helping or not!
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Funny!
Sleeping on one’s stomach wasn’t mentioned, wonder what the effects are.
You beat me to it, Katie. I was just going to ask that same question.
Do they think no one sleeps on their stomach or something?
severe back pain Katie. believe me i know.
Doesn’t bother my back, just my neck sometimes.
It’s actually comfortable.
http://www.healthline.com/health/is-it-bad-to-sleep-on-your-stomach#Overview1 hope this helps, i only sleep on left side, rarely on back or other side. I think the right for me plugs my sinus. I also sleep in a Fetal position. Have a good one
Restrictive breathing.
This is nonsense
Does not “nonsense” make “sense” in bizzaro world? It’s like “Opposite World”, you know, the world where we live, where everything seems to be opposite of our best interests. Yup, if it’s good for us, you can be damned sure it won’t make it out of the “Den of Wolves” in D.C.
Hey Mike Filip. when I have acid reflux or heart burn at night I lay on my left side and it takes care if it. So this article rings true to me. Just sayin.
I don’t have a problem with that Paul, but it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem. sleeping on one side or the other wont create gut bacteria, or cause the liver to produce enzymes. Also if you are getting acid reflux, the problem is not enough stomach acid which is made of calcium and salt. The calcium deficiency manifesting as “acid reflux” is probably causing a cascade of problems in other areas as well. I suffered from terrible acid reflux years ago, now its just a bad memory. I’ll be talking about these things on my upcoming show on GCN.
Mike. can you provide a link?
My old website is healthconspiracyzone.com
The shows I was guest hosting are all posted there. My new show will be titled Americanuck radio and will be carried by gcn and Mike Adams talknetwork.com I’ll find you a link on how to eradicate acid reflux. It’s easy with the right info. (If I can do it anyone can )
Thank you Mike. I always want to learn. would appreciate your help.
This is my friend Talking about Gastroparesis. He gets into acid reflux as well. Gastroparesis Is terrible. It literally hurts to eat, so the individual starves to death even if surrounded with food. I helped a lady in Michigan fix it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXVWEmX-d8
The author doesn’t give any citations or provide any evidence for these claims. I’m skeptical to say the least. But if there is any truth to it, I guess it’s all a wash in my case, since I change my sleeping position all the time.
Left side, right side, backside, stomach, it’s like I’m on a rotisserie throughout the night. I’d have to strap myself down to remain on the left side.
LOL, that’s a good way of describing it. I’m the same way.
Get a big enough bed and you’ll find out that sometimes you’ll end up in the opposite direction you started in.
I still remember the day when I could actually sleep for 8hrs.
Now its maybe 4 if I’m lucky and passed out.
I also sleep with my eyes open.
Last time I woke up that way I forgot to ask her “What happened?”. Of course, this was decades ago!
Can’t sleep all night on left side (though I agree it’s the best position)–if I do, my left hip starts hurting. So I have to move to right side sometimes (until my deviated septum on right nostril starts getting stopped up!)
“Moreover, sleeping on your right side can worsen digestive problems.”
When I was young I read that you should always wait at least 4 hours after eating a heavy meal (dinner) before going to sleep, so that your body has time to digest the food. I thought it made logical sense, so I’ve done that ever since. I’ve never had stomach problems, so I believe it’s true.
“Sleeping on the left side is the best sleeping position in terms of the benefits it has on our health.”
Conversely, I also read that sleeping on your left side put more of a strain on your heart, causing it to pump harder, when the body should be at rest. That also sounded entirely logical as well.
Never could stand sleeping on my stomach, so it’s always been either on my right side or my back.
I read once that sleeping on your left side puts 20 pressure on the heart…is this the whole “margarine is better for you…no butter is better for you” kinda thing???
You mentioned that when sleeping on your left side “the heart better pumps downhill.” That doesn’t make sense. Your heart is on your left side. While sleeping on your left side, your heart would have to pump harder to get blood to the rest of your body (the right side) — and that would be up-hill.
Am I wrong?