What are the Proper Sleep Posture for Overall Wellness

 

How many hours of sleep did you get last night?

Well if you're like nearly about one-third of an adult then the answer is not enough. And about 27% of folks report having trouble falling and staying asleep most nights.

There are studies correlating inefficient sleep with improper sleep alignment or sleep posture. And the research has shown that continuous shortages of sleep can contribute to depression, heart disease, obesity, and even type two diabetes.

In order to understand more about the importance of sleep and how proper sleep posture can affect your overall wellness. What is proper sleep posture?

Firstly, we have to have a normal lord tic curve of the neck. And if it's not, then we have problems.  And the problems are stiff muscles in the neck, pain, and poor sleep and we don't want any of that. So how do we achieve this proper sleep posture?

The best way is to sleep on your back and on your sides. - No stomach sleeping. - Never on your stomach. Because, when you're on your stomach, your neck has to turn one way or the other which is very bad for the neck.

 

Now if you sleep on your back and your side, then you definitely have proper sleep posture?

 

Let's look at that here but there's no integrity to this pillow. It's just flat. So the lordosis is gone and it's flattened the neck.  So we're already setting ourselves up for failure. - So lie in your bed, lie on the end of the bed, let your neck hang off of the bed to improve the lordosis. Or buy a cervical roll and place the cervical roll in the pillow. The problem is, they're still not integrity, and if this is not going to be in a good position. - That would never work for us because we move all night, so this would be rolling back and forth for sure. - Correct, and turning side to side is not really ideal with this sort of thing.

 

 Now, somebody who wants to sleep on their side all night long? Get up for a second. - This is, by the way, when a pregnant woman is told that she has to sleep on her side all the time. Absolutely, you can't sleep on your stomach. So now she can sleep, she can roll from one side to the other and it's not a problem. And it maintains the integrity of the spine. This is Incredible and amazing. So now that we've got the Comfort Adjust Pillow, tell us how this will improve overall wellness. So if you sleep well at night, you're going to wake up energized, you're going to function better, your muscles are going to be relaxed, everything is going to reset. The cervical spine will reset from all the daily activities from the prior day. A whole lot less grumpy. - Correct, and it makes correction with what we call tech neck. So for every inch, your head translates forward, it's 10 pounds of pressure. So if you go all the way down. That's 60 pounds of pressure on your neck. - And all day long, what are we doing? We're looking at our phones. - Cell phones, laptops, computers, affects everybody. And so does this help us reset it?

Absolutely. When you go to sleep, and she's sleeping on her side. When you sleep on the back or the side, it's helping with the lordosis, the banana curve of the neck, maintain it. - So you get all night to sort of resetting your body.