A short conversational video discussing how body posture and sleeping position affect sleep quality and health. Speakers note that most people (about 70%) are side sleepers, discuss common views on stomach sleeping, and mention that comfort and lymphatic flow influence which positions may be healthiest.
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When somebody thinks about sleep, a lot of times you might think about, well, what position is my body? But positioning your body is many times just as important as positioning your head. So how does posture and sleep fit together?
When you look at the general population, 70% of people are side sleepers. As chiropractors, we look at people who sleep on their stomachs, like the smoking person, right? Like, oh, my goodness, that's the biggest crime you could commit, right? But when you look at most other invertebrates, they sleep in all weird positions. And even when we look at babies who sleep on their stomachs or our children, they sleep in all weird positions and don't have neck problems. So there is a component in more of a preventative measure, but not so much in, let's say, like, it's the healthiest way to sleep. Now, there's been different research on that. For instance, most of the research says the most comfortable sleeping position is going to be the best position for anyone because it's more important to get deeper sleep. But when you look into things like lymphatic flow, like, side sleeping is the number one position and the best position to sleep in, and it makes sense, that's why most people sleep that way.
