Which posture is good for women?

Each sleeping position contains advantages and disadvantages to the body shape and health of women.

According to a 2012 US survey, most people in the country, up to 74% have a habit of sleeping on their side. Meanwhile, only 16% of people often sleep on their stomachs and 10% on their backs when they are intoxicated.

Experts said, although there is little scientific evidence to confirm the relationship between sleeping posture and individual personality traits. However, sleeping posture has a great influence on your body shape and health.

Below is a summary of the experts on the advantages and disadvantages that the 3 most popular sleeping postures bring to women:

Lay up

Benefits: Prevent neck pain and back pain, reduce gastrointestinal acid reflux, minimize wrinkles, maintain "double mountain" with full vitality.

Disadvantage: Snoring.

Dr. Steven Diamant, an American chiropractic specialist, explains that sleeping on your back will make your head, neck and spine easily maintain a neutral posture. You will not back your back to bend further. This is also an ideal position to fight gastrointestinal acid reflux, because if your head is elevated, your stomach will lie lower than the esophagus, so acid and food cannot go backwards.

Lying on your back to sleep also helps to prevent wrinkles, since there is nothing to push on your face, according to Dee Anna Glase, a dermatologist at Saint Louis University (USA). In addition, the weight of the "snow pear" pair is fully supported, reducing sagging.

Lie on the side

Benefits: Prevent neck and back pain, reduce acid reflux, snore less, ideal posture when pregnant.

Disadvantage: Not good for skin and "double mountain".

Leaning while sleeping is generally good for health, helping to reduce snoring and keep your spine long. If you have gastrointestinal acid reflux, this is also the perfect posture for you. For pregnant women, sleep sideways, especially to the left side, especially good mother and fetus.

However, according to Dr. Glaser, sleeping tilt can cause you to form wrinkles on your face because you have to rest your face on your pillow. This position also contributes to sagging the chest, because the breast will bend downwards, stretching the ligaments.

Folded bent (fetal posture)

Benefits: reduce snoring, ideal posture when pregnant.

Disadvantage: sore neck and back, wrinkle formation, sagging chest.

When sleeping in a bendy position like a shrimp or also called a fetal posture, you will limit snoring. If you're pregnant, this is a pretty comfortable sleeping position for women.

However, you will feel pain in the morning, especially if you have chronic arthritis or back pain. This is also a posture to limit the respiratory of the diaphragm, according to acupuncturist Dody Chang at Greenwich Hospital (USA). If you often bend in the evening, like the sleeping posture, the weak sex is also easy to form wrinkles on the face and "double mountain" is sagging due to stretching of the ligament.

Lie on your stomach

Benefit: Reduce snoring.

Disadvantage: Neck and back pain, wrinkles, "double mountain" sagging.

Experts discovered, sleeping on the stomach will make you difficult to maintain neutral posture for the spine. This position will put pressure on the joints and muscles, can cause discomfort to the nerves and lead to pain, numbness and tingling. Because of the stooping posture, your head will have to rotate one side for hours continuously, so it is easy to hurt or sore. In addition, similar to the inclined sleeping posture, applying face to the knees and the loose breasts also increases the risk of facial wrinkles and sagging "double mountain".

The only benefit to sleeping on your stomach is to help you reduce snoring.