Is a healthy sleeping position supine or lateral?

A healthy sleep posture will have the best sleep quality, and high-quality sleep quality will keep people young and away from diseases. There are only a few sleeping postures, supine, prone, lying on the left and lying on the right. According to the book Spirit of Medicine, "Walk like a goose, Wang Bu, sleep like a lion." Lying on the right, also known as the lion king lying, is the most suitable lying position. Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of lying on your back and side.

Sleep on your back:

When sleeping on your back, it is best to put a small thin pillow under the knee joint to reduce the tension of the spine and maintain its physiological curvature.

Advantages: Sleeping on your back can easily keep your head, neck and spine in a straight line to prevent neck and back pain. At the same time, it can reduce gastric acid reflux, there is no pressure on the face, and wrinkles are not easy to appear.

Disadvantages: it is not conducive to the operation of lung qi and blood, thus affecting lung function. The disadvantage of supine position is that it is easy to cause drooping of tongue base and hinder breathing, so people who snore and have apnea and respiratory distress are not easy to take supine position to avoid sleep accidents.

Because I snore easily when I sleep, it is easier to snore when I sleep on my back. Later, my wife found that if I slept on my back, if I pushed my head aside, the snoring would disappear immediately.

Lying on the right? ：

Advantages: reduce snoring, prolong spine, prevent neck and back pain and reduce gastric acid reflux. Compared with lying on the left, lying on the right is much healthier, and lying on the side is a better posture. When lying on your side, the spine bends forward into an S-shape, and the limbs are easy to put into a comfortable posture, which can relax the muscles of the whole body and help to eliminate fatigue. Make breathing smoother, so that sleeping will not only affect the physiological functions of the heart and gastrointestinal tract, but also help the contents of the stomach to be discharged.

Disadvantages: the face is compressed and prone to wrinkles; Women lying on their side tend to oppress their breasts.

In addition, pillows are more important in sleep:

Choosing the right pillow depends not only on the position of the head and neck, but also on the sleeping posture. The pillow should be able to support the head and keep the neck in a normal position, while the neck is comfortable and the muscles are relaxed.

The pillow should not be too high, otherwise it will strain the muscles of the back, neck and shoulders. The standard of pillow selection is appropriate hardness, and the neck is consistent with the chest and back. If the pillow is too hard or too high, it will easily lead to neck soft tissue strain, chronic neck and shoulder pain or habitual stiff neck. The pillow is too soft and low, which does not support the neck enough, and the cervical vertebra deforms downward for a long time, causing fatigue.

So what kind of sleeping position do you like can be discussed in the comments section.