These 9 sleeping methods will shorten your life by 10 years

In fact, adequate sleep is very important for the health of the elderly. According to relevant information, the elderly need at least 6 hours of sleep a day. In addition, special attention should be paid to some taboos during sleep in terms of sleep preparation, posture and habits:

1. Avoid eating before going to bed : After a person enters a sleep state, the rhythm of some body activities slows down and enters a resting state. If you eat before going to bed, your stomach and intestines will be busy again, which will increase their burden and other parts of the body will not be able to get a good rest. It will not only affect your sleep but also damage your health.

2. Avoid talking before going to bed: because talking too much can easily excite the brain and make the thinking active, making it difficult to fall asleep.

3. Avoid overusing your brain before going to bed: If you have the habit of working or studying at night, finish the more brain-intensive tasks in advance, and do something easier before going to bed to relax your brain, which will make it easier to fall asleep. Otherwise, the brain will be in an excited state, and it will be difficult to fall asleep even if you lie in bed. Over time, you will easily suffer from insomnia.

4. Avoid being emotionally excited before going to bed: People’s joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness can easily cause excitement or disorder of the nerve center, making it difficult to fall asleep and even causing insomnia. Therefore, before going to bed, try to avoid being too happy or too angry, or too worried or angry, and keep your emotions stable.

5. Avoid drinking strong tea or coffee before going to bed: Strong tea and coffee are stimulating drinks. They contain caffeine and other substances that can make people excited. Drinking them before going to bed can easily cause difficulty falling asleep.

6. Avoid sleeping with your head covered: The elderly are generally afraid of cold, so some of them like to sleep with their heads covered. This is extremely harmful to the body because of the large amount of carbon dioxide inhaled and the lack of necessary oxygen supplementation.

7. Avoid sleeping on your back: The best sleeping posture is to lie on your right side. This way the bones and muscles of the whole body are in a naturally relaxed state, making it easy to fall asleep and eliminate fatigue. Lying on your back will keep the bones and muscles of the whole body in a tense state, which is not conducive to eliminating fatigue. It is also easy to cause nightmares due to placing your hands on your chest, affecting your sleep quality.

8. Avoid sleeping with your eyes facing the light: When people fall asleep, although their eyes are closed, they can still feel the light. Sleeping facing the light can easily make people feel uneasy and have difficulty falling asleep, and even if they fall asleep, they are easily awakened.

9. Avoid sleeping in the wind: Keep the room well ventilated, but do not let the wind blow directly on your body. Because after people fall into deep sleep, the body's ability to adapt to the external environment decreases. If you sleep in the wind for a long time, the cold air will invade the body and cause diseases such as colds and chills.