This podcast episode (JJ Virgin: Ask the Health Expert) addresses a listener question—"What is the best position to sleep in?"—and features sleep expert Dr. Peter Martoni, who recommends a neutral/back sleeping position based on personal injury experience and observations (arms at sides, maintaining cervical posture). The episode also contains multiple sponsor ad reads (Wayfair, Earth Breeze laundry strips, Ray-Ban Meta Glasses, Monarch budgeting app, Chrysler Pacifica) and a closing subscribe prompt.
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What is the Best Position for me to sleep In? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times Best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Donna from Facebook asks, what's the best position for me to sleep in? Hey, it's JJ and I've got the sleep expert Dr. Peter Martoni with me to answer this question. Now, he's not known as Dr. Sleepwright, and when he's not sleeping, he's out having adventures. In fact, you might say he's a.
Bit of an extremist.
He skydived. Skydived. Skydoved regularly mountain bikes and has rock.
Climbed literally all over the world.
He'll be right back to answer this question.
Hey JJ Virgin here.
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Hello, Dr. Peter Martoni here. And you know, when answering this question, I have been rock climbing, skydiving and mountain biking and have unfortunately broke a lot of bones in my in my life. So when identifying the best position to sleep in, it was out of necessity. So what I did is I had a broken collarbone and I couldn't. And I couldn't sleep on my side and I had to sleep on my back. So in thinking that in breaking my collarbone and sleeping on my back, what happened was, is I would wake up in one position even with a broken collarbone, and then I would wake up in that exact position and I wouldn't toss in turn. So that got me thinking, how can you. Because I was a side sleeper my entire life, I had shoulder problems. I had impingement issues with my shoulder. And what I found was when I started, it was after an injury and then I started to sleep on my back in what we call a neutral sleeping position where my arms are down by my sides and then my feet are out the end of the covers and I'm basically like sleeping in a casket. And I would stay in that position and I wouldn't toss and turn all night long. That got me to start thinking and then I started diving in and then I started seeing things. So I watched the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon years ago and I saw when the actors came out of the room and it was based in the 1500s, they had a block of wood for their pillow. And I was sitting there and I'm like, that would be so uncomfortable for a side sleeper. Well, it wasn't for a side sleeper, they would support their neck because they understood the benefit of back sleeping and restoring and maintaining a healthy cervical posture.
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