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A few things you can't know about sleep!

Sleep is a physiological necessity for everyone because it is a nutrient for human growth and is as necessary as exercise and diet to ensure the body's growth and development.

By Tara R RosePublished 3 years ago 4 min read
A few things you can't know about sleep!
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Without good sleep, the body's energy accumulation, the protection of brain function, the body's immunity, and the ability to resist disease will be harmed.

Every time we talk about sleep, we will think of insomnia, long-term insomnia is very harmful to the body, but in addition to insomnia, there are many things about sleep that we need to pay attention to.

I heard that there are three kinds of sleep harm comparable to insomnia, so you sleep more and more tired, the more sleep the worse the body, which "three sleep" will have such a great impact on it? Today we will understand to understand!

For these three kinds of sleep, I advise you not to sleep!

Why are sleep and life related to it? With the continuous development of society, the pace of modern life continues to accelerate, and sleep to wake up naturally has become an unattainable desire for many people, if you often sleep these three kinds of sleep, really want to live a long life are difficult!

01 with gas to sleep - gas big injury to the liver

Sleeping with bad emotions, seemingly nothing there will be a lot of adverse effects on the body, this situation is most likely to occur in female friends, need to be alert.

Common diseases such as breast nodules and thyroid nodules are all related to bad emotions, so the term "gas hurts the body" is still very justified.

Excessive anger can lead to disorders in the body's qi and blood flow, resulting in qi stagnation, once the body's qi and blood are out of balance, health will be affected.

In addition, angry emotions can cause qi and blood to surge, and also damage liver function and digestive function.

So we should do a good job of emotional relief before going to bed, to maintain a calm mood to sleep the best, for patients suffering from hypertension, or heart disease, sleep does not bored to sleep, so as not to induce a stroke.

02 lazy sleep - irregular work and rest

Sleeping lazy is not in the supplemental sleep time, why would it be unhealthy?

Modern young people like to stay up at night on their rest days, and then sleep until noon, which seems to supplement the sleep time, but disrupts the rhythm of sleep.

➤Sleeping will make life irregular, disrupting the human biological clock, and the sudden change in sleep habits will lead to hormone imbalance, and make them prone to emotional depression and headaches.

➤Sleep until noon, that breakfast is certainly not eaten, you know, breakfast is the most important of the three meals, often do not eat breakfast will increase the probability of suffering from gallstones. In addition, less a meal is not eaten, the next meal is easy to overeat, and often will hurt the intestinal function, leading to chronic gastritis occurs.

Suggestions: even if there are no study work arrangements, rest days are best to maintain a regular rest time, according to their habits, and reasonable sleep arrangements.

03 Sleep immediately after meals - hurts the stomach

It is particularly easy to sleep after eating, that is because the body digests, a lot of blood flow to the digestive system, and when the brain blood is reduced, will produce a sleepy feeling.

But this time never falls back on sleep Oh, immediately after the meal sleep easily triggered gastroesophageal reflux, often so, reflux esophagitis from you can not be far.

Besides, sleeping immediately after eating will also affect digestion and increase the burden on the digestive system, which can easily lead to gastric disease and even increase the chances of stomach cancer in the long run.

If you are sleepy after a meal, it is best to sleep after half an hour, during which you can first get up and walk to help digestion can also relieve sleepiness.

Which sleeping position is good?

01 Not recommended - sleeping with your arms, sleeping on your back, sleeping curled up

Here, to severely criticize the couples and couples who sleep with their arms. Not acid, but this sleeping position is too harmful.

In the long run, men get frozen shoulders, women get cervical spondylosis. So it is strongly recommended that you, good feelings do not sleep together.

And most of the time curled up to sleep, will always make the lumbar back muscle in a state of tension. The daytime sedentary waist is enough to suffer, but also nervous overtime work at night, which can not fatigue? Over time, it may lead to strain on the soft tissues of the lumbar back.

Sleeping on your back is a sleeping position that is contrary to the normal physiological curve of the human body. Not only easy to the pillow but also because of the lack of support for the lower back, causes pain.

There are girls most worried about the problem - the corners of the eyes are easy to grow wrinkles, and chest compression leads to breast sagging ......

02 recommended - side lying, supine

Side-lying legs are slightly curved, and the spine is slightly bowed, which can make the whole body muscles get maximum relaxation.

So, is it better to sleep to the left or the right?

For people with coronary heart disease and other heart diseases, it is recommended to sleep towards the right.

And for healthy people, there is not much to say. Some people worry that lying on the left side will compress the heart, but the heart is located in the thorax and is well protected, and the left side of the bed will not cause much compression.

As for supine, to avoid scoliosis, and reduce the occurrence of spinal disease, but also to avoid the face due to extrusion and wrinkles. But remember to give a pillow under the knee, can maintain the physiological convexity of the lumbar spine.

Of course, the human sleeping position is not static, the same position sleep tired of the natural change. For healthy people, side lying, supine can be, mutual adjustment, with, can make the spine and the muscles on both sides of the spine relax, is a good sleeping posture.

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