Do you sleep on your side, back, or stomach? You might not realize it but you tend to have a favorite position as you sleep. While this position might change up from time to time, there is one position you subconsciously go back to. But it’s something that is worth paying more attention to because it can directly impact your overall health and sleep quality.
Being in a comfortable environment is vital for healthy sleep. Have you ever had one of those nights when you just can’t fall asleep no matter how much you toss and turn in bed? This struggle often comes as a result of the temperature being too hot or too cold. You may not realize it but the ambient temperature in your bedroom can significantly impact the quality of your sleep.
You spend almost a third of your day sleeping. It is integral to your overall health, especially in terms of the quality of sleep you get. This activity is so common that you barely even give attention to smaller details such as your sleeping position. For example, you need to determine which side is best to sleep on – left or right.
It’s no secret that getting quality sleep at night is linked to good health. But did you know that your sleeping position matters, too? It is more than just a matter of preference because there is a growing body of research that shows why you need to be particular about your position during sleep. There are a few excuses to this, such as that pregnant women shouldn’t sleep on their back as it can be dangerous to the baby and uncomfortable with your growing belly.
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After sundown, the circadian rhythms in a healthy body initiate a hormonal cascade. This leads to glorious, natural, stress-reducing and immunity-enhancing sleep. But. If you allow unnatural electric light to enter your pretty eyeballs after sundown, your optic nerve sends a signal to you brain: “It’s daytime! Stay sharp!”
Sleeping naked might not sound like an intuitive way to boost your health. In fact, if you’re thinking about going to bed in the nude, you probably aren’t thinking about your health at all! (Wink wink) But the fact remains - sleeping without clothes is an easy way to reap incredible benefits.
In your 20s, you probably didn’t have to think about managing hangovers, or how to sleep better after drinking alcohol. But with age comes wisdom, and a bag of tricks for ensuring you sleep well after a few margaritas.
We’ve all been there. At least, all of us above the age of 35 have been there. Your sleep hygiene is on point. You’re dimming lights in the evening. You descend every night into a nice, natural snooze. But every night, you wake up 3 hours later with a bloated bladder.
You’ve seen the colorful “sleep drink” bottles lined up on the shelves of your local box store. Or maybe they’ve ambushed you on Amazon. They look like Red Bull, but in soothing colors. And they offer an interesting proposition, don’t they?
Vitamin D is all the rage now because of COVID-19. Yet, as Dr. Rhonda Patrick and others have promoted the ability of Vitamin D to protect against virus-initiated lung injury, they’ve failed to mention how a strong dose of the “sunlight nutrient” also protects against sleep disorders.
Is bad sleep wrecking your sex life? Well, if you’re getting less than 7 hours a night, then the short answer is: almost certainly. Much like obesity and heart disease, sexual dysfunction is a common end result of sleep deprivation. But what do we mean by “sexual dysfunction?”
