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We Must Start Sleeping On The Left Side From Tonight!

We Must Start Sleeping On The Left Side From Tonight!

Sleep makes you feel better, but its importance goes far beyond simply allowing you to rest, stimulate your mood or ban your dark circles. Restful sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, which is good for your heart, your weight, your mind and more.

We Must Start Sleeping On The Left Side From Tonight!

"Sleep was once ignored, like parking our car in a garage and picking it up in the morning," says David Rapoport, director of the Sleep Disorders Program at New York University.

Why is it important to get enough sleep?

Sleep improves your memory
During sleep, you can reinforce memories or "practice" the skills learned while you were awake (this is a process called consolidation). Sleeping well can manage information recently acquired. "If you're trying to learn something, whether it's physical or mental, you're learning it up to a point with practice," says Dr. Rapoport, an associate professor at NYU Langone Medical Center. "But something happens while you sleep, which allows you to learn it better." In other words, if you try to learn something new, you will get better results after a good night's sleep

Reduce inflammation
Inflammation is linked to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis and premature aging. People who sleep less than six hours a night have higher levels of inflammatory protein in their blood than those who sleep more. This C-reactive protein is associated with the risk of heart attack.

Stimulate creativity
Have a good night's sleep before taking out your brushes, pens or papers. In addition to consolidating memories, or making them stronger, your brain seems to reorganize and restructure them, which can lead to more creativity. Researchers at Harvard University and Boston College have found that people seem to reinforce the emotional components of a memory during sleep, which can help stimulate the creative process.

Maintain a healthy weight
If you are thinking of dieting, you can plan an early sleep too. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that people on a well-rested diet lost more fat than those who slept less. In addition, sleeping early prevents snacking which is the prerogative of long evenings.

Your sleeping position influences your health
We spend about a third of our lives sleeping - so our position during sleep really does matter. "Eighty percent of the population will have back problems at some point in their lives, often caused or worsened by their sleep," says Dr. Hooman Melamed, Spine Orthopedic Surgeon, Medical Daily.
The best place to sleep is the left side because of its multiple health benefits.

A beneficial position for pregnant women
The American Pregnancy Association even recommends pregnant women to sleep on their left side. According to their website, "sleeping on the left side will increase the amount of blood and nutrients that reach the placenta and your baby."

A position that improves the health of the digestive system:

Still according to Medical Daily, "Sleeping on the right side can make heartburn worse, while sleeping on the left side can relieve heartburn and keep the junction between stomach and esophagus above the level of gastric acid. "

An ideal position for the health of the spleen
Like the pancreas and stomach, the spleen is on the left side of the body. Sleeping on the left side facilitates the function of this organ which plays an important role in the lymphatic system. This allows for better sleep and also helps to eliminate toxins more easily.

Sleeping on the left side prevents liver congestion
The liver is in the right side of the body and sleeping on this side only congest. For this organ to work optimally, sleep on the left side: it would allow waste and toxins.

An excellent position for the heart
More than three quarters of the heart is in the left side of the chest. Sleeping on this side helps the heart to pump blood better, which facilitates blood circulation and therefore good heart health.