Is it better to lie on the left side or the right side

Good sleep is related to a person's life throughout the day. Normal people should sleep on their right side. Sleeping on the right side can reduce the pressure on the heart and reduce the burden on the heart. Pregnant women should lie on their left side, which is beneficial to the growth of the fetus, reduces the pressure on the baby in the body, and reduces complications caused by pregnancy factors. Lying prone will hinder the body's blood circulation and increase wrinkles.

The correct sleeping position should be lying on the right side.

Many people wake up feeling dizzy, backache, and exhausted. The main reason is improper sleeping posture.

Sleeping on your back is the most common sleeping position. Traditional Chinese medicine calls this sleeping position "corpse sleeping". With this sleeping position, the body and lower limbs can only be fixed in a straight position, which cannot achieve the purpose of full body rest. When the intra-abdominal pressure increases, lying on your back can easily cause people to feel chest tightness and suffocation. Lying on your back like this will cause you to consciously or unconsciously place your hands on your chest, which will put pressure on your heart and lungs and make you prone to nightmares.

When lying prone, most of the body weight is pressed on the ribs and abdomen, which puts pressure on the chest and diaphragm, affects breathing, and increases the burden on the heart. Sleeping prone also increases the curvature of the lumbar spine, causing compression of the facet joints at the back of the spine. When lying prone, the neck has to be twisted sideways to tilt the head to one side, which can easily cause damage to the neck muscles.

When lying on your left side with your legs slightly bent, although it helps to relax your body and eliminate fatigue, the heart is located between the left and right lungs in the chest cavity and is biased to the left. The exits of the stomach to the duodenum and the small intestine to the large intestine are all on the left side. Therefore, when lying on your left side, not only the heart is squeezed, but also the gastrointestinal tract is compressed, and gastric emptying is slowed down.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the correct sleeping position should be lying on your right side with your legs slightly bent. In this way, the heart is in a high position and is not compressed; the liver is in a low position and has a better blood supply, which is beneficial to metabolism; the food in the stomach is pushed towards the duodenum by gravity, which can promote digestion and absorption. At the same time, the whole body is in a relaxed state, breathing becomes even, heartbeat slows down, and the brain, heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, muscles, and bones get sufficient rest and oxygen supply.

Of course, for a healthy person, there is no need to be overly concerned about his sleeping posture, because overnight, people often cannot maintain a fixed posture until dawn. Most people are constantly changing their sleeping postures, which is more conducive to relieving fatigue.

During pregnancy, you should try to reduce the time you spend lying on your back when sleeping, and sleep more often on your side, especially on your left side, which is more beneficial to the health of the mother and the baby in the womb.