What is the healthiest sleeping position?

Sleep is a necessary process of life, is a biological rhythm, is an indispensable physiological phenomenon of human beings. About 1/3 of a person's life is spent in sleep. After a busy day, everyone should have a good sleep. Sleep is to rest well and restore energy, so how to sleep is healthy?

1, the British Loughborough University Sleep Research Center Professor Jim Haun said, the left side of the bed to help promote digestion, to prevent heartburn. If heartburn and indigestion remain unimproved after lying on the left side, it is recommended that the pillow be slightly raised. Right-side lying does not compress the heart, suitable for people with cardiovascular disease.

2. Lie on your back. Sleeping on the back is the most common sleeping position, but also the best public sleeping position. Lie on your back will not oppress the body organs, can make the head, neck and spine in the natural physiological curve, to prevent neck and back pain. At the same time to avoid facial skin wrinkles, but also to prevent sagging breasts. However, lying on the back is easy to cause the root of the tongue to fall, blocking breathing, so snorers, people with respiratory diseases and pregnant women should not choose to lie on the back.

3, prone. Prone is often referred to as lying down to sleep, this sleeping position can reduce snoring, but it will hinder the expansion of the thorax, oppression of the heart and lungs, affecting respiration, increasing the workload of the heart and lungs, resulting in chest tightness, but also cause neck and back pain. People suffering from heart disease, high blood pressure, cerebral thrombosis are not suitable for prone.

4, pillow arm and sleep. Sleeping on both hands pillow under the head, a sleep is a few hours, so that a long time pressure on the arm will directly make the radial nerve of the upper arm compression injury, not conducive to blood circulation nerve conduction, easy to cause the upper limbs, wrists, fingers numbness and soreness, long-term compression of the arm may also evolve into a localized nerve paralysis.