Healthiest sleeping position Why should we sleep better on the left side of the body?

Why not sleep on your right side

The sleeping position can influence our health. Experts have warned against sleeping on their back in the past because it may cause some people to be dangerously breathe. There are also health reasons for not sleeping on the right side. On the left side to rest, however, is recommended.

Various causes of reflux

Every second German suffers occasionally from heartburn. This may be due to overweight, heavy, fatty meals, stress or an excess of alcohol and nicotine. Even the wrong sleeping position can promote heartburn, as shown in a study.

Sleeping on the left side is associated with various health benefits. For example, left-sleeper sleepers have less common heartburn than right sleepers. (Image: drubig-photo / fotolia.com)

Left sleepers have less heartburn

The US scientists found in the journal "The Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology" published study that people who sleep on the left side, much less suffer from heartburn (also known as reflux) as a right-sleepers.

Other health experts have also referred to this fact and explain the phenomenon with the stomach and its contents further down the esophagus than lying on the left side.

In the case of right-eye sleepers, on the other hand, it is easier for the chyme to return to the esophagus.

But there are even more reasons why you should sleep better on the left side. Some of them have the doctor. Named John Douillard on his website and in numerous YouTube videos.

Better transport of important nutrients

According to the health expert, doing the lymphatic system of the body does a good thing, resting on the left side.

This has to do with the fact that the left side of the body is the dominant lymphatic side.

The lymphatic system, the largest organ of the immune system, plays a central role in the fight against invading pathogens, but also malignantly degenerated cancer cells.

It is also responsible for the transport of essential nutrients and the filtering of waste materials.

And the spleen, which is responsible for the purification of the blood, is on the left side and can therefore work more easily if we sleep on the left side.

Benefits for digestion and heart health

The location of the stomach and pancreas also suggests sleeping on the left side.

Because this contributes according to the experts to a better digestion.

But who is right sleepers, presses his stomach on the pancreas and hindered by their activity.

And another point that speaks in favor of sleeping on the left side: Right sleepers need a lot more heart work.

Because the main artery, the aorta, branches off from the heart to the left, before going down into the abdomen.

By lying on the left side, the heart pumps the blood directly downhill into the descending aorta and thus relieves the organ automatically. (Ad)