How much time do you spend while trying to find the most comfortable position to sleep in? I need a lot of time sometime, when some people have their perfect sleeping position. Still do you like to rest on your back or on your stomach? Actually it is better if you sleep on your side. Dr. John Douillard turns to ayurveda, an alternative form of medicine from India, to explain how sleeping on your left side may be the ideal way to give your body the rest it needs. So stop tossing and turning in bed, just turn onto your left side and receive only benefits while sleeping:
1. Spine and breathing
According to Joint Essential, it’s better stick to your left side while sleeping as it is the least naturally harmful for the spine. Because sleeping on your back as well as on your stomach puts a lot of pressure on the the upper back, hips, lower back and your neck
WebMD also adds that sleeping on your side is the best at providing optimal air flow to the lungs.
2. Digestion
Dr. Douillard also suggests you to sleep on the left side as intestines travel across your stomach faster in this position, moreover it is recommended to take a 10-minutes rest lying on your left side after eating to speed up meal digesting.
3. Lymph draining
When you sleep on your left side you let the gravity to take some of the pressure of lymph drainage away from your heart and your spleen, both of which are also located on the left side of your body.
However, Dr. Steven Park, sleep professional says that changing your sleeping position may even make things worse, so in case you do not have yet any sleeping habits give this left side thing a try.
