The best posture for sleep

Scientists, neuroscientists have found that even the position in which you sleep, a significant impact on health. Including the exchange of cerebrospinal fluid and tissue that occurs during sleep. Thus, the brain gets rid of the accumulated per day of excess information.

I like to sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I wake up, you know.

Ernest Hemingway

Center for Control and Prevention of diseases include: lack of sleep to public health problems. For those who do not get enough sleep, the risk of chronic diseases, including such as hypertension, diabetes, depression, obesity, and even cancer, are much higher.

Therefore, sleep - vital. As it turned out, even the position in which you sleep, significantly affects the quality of rest.

Neuroscientists say that sleep not only affects our appetite, mood, and libido, but also activates the body's cells, improves memory and learning new information, and clears the brain from unnecessary data. The latter is particularly important. Just as the body needs to output waste, the brain needs to get rid of unnecessary information.

According to research by neuroscientistsHedok Lee, Lulu Xie, Mei Yu, Hongyi Kang, Tian Feng, Rashid Deane, Jean Logan, Maiken Nedergaard, Helene Benveniste.The Effect of Body Posture on Brain Glymphatic Transport. The most useful in this regard posture for sleep is sleep on the side.

Through these studies, scientists have used the technique of dynamic contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to display glimfaticheskogo way in the brain. With this system, spinal fluid into the brain tissue and replace the liquid (liquid in which are all the cells).

The exchange of the two liquids allows the brain to get rid of the accumulated waste products, such as beta-amyloid and tau proteins. These chemicals are associated with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

"It is interesting that the majority of people and even animals in the wild just prefer to sleep on your side - notice the scientists of the University of Rochester (USA). - Apparently, we initially chose for himself a sleeping posture to most effectively clean your brain from the accumulated in it for the day of the exchange of products. "

However, sleeping on the side is not only useful for the proper operation of our brain. It is ideally suited for those who are prone to snoring, people with the syndrome of sleep apnea, suffering from pain in the neck and back, as well as pregnant women. This posture straightens the spine, which helps with pain in the back, and automatically opens the oropharynx, making it easier to breath.

Recommendations for the most comfortable sleep

1. Lie on your side, but not in the fetal position. You can slightly bend the knees.

2. Choose a comfortable pillow. It must be sufficiently rigid to support the neck.

3. Hold down the legs a little pillow. This will help your spine to remain in a state of raspryamlonnom.

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