Introduction: Sleep is an indispensable and important physiological process for maintaining physical health, an important link in restoring, integrating and consolidating physical memory. The physiological role of sleep can be said to be second only to breathing and heartbeat.
Sleep is very important to everyone, because during the sleep process, the organs in the body can better repair and detoxify.
If a person is often in insomnia, he will find that he will have severe dark circles on the second day, his whole mental state, listlessness, and even severe hair loss phenomenon.
Everyone has different sleeping habits. Some people like to lie flat, some people like to lie on their side, and some people like to stretch their feet out of the quilt. So what impact will this sleeping habit have on the body?
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About sleep
- Is sleep the best way to stay healthy?
Sleep is the best way to keep your body healthy. Only adequate sleep and rest can help the body's endocrine cardiovascular activity and digestive function, maintain the normal state of respiratory function, and the growth and self-repair of the body's tissues can also run better, and the body's resistance and immunity will also be enhanced. Therefore, there is a folk saying, "Sleep is a natural tonic."
- Correct sleeping posture
Usually there are 4 sleeping positions. The choice of sleeping posture depends on the person. The side lying position makes people toss and turn while sleeping easily cause bad sleep. The supine position is a very common sleeping position. It will not compress any organs of the body, but will cause the tongue to sag and hinder breathing.
When in the prone position , people often feel very safe when sleeping, which helps eliminate foreign objects in the oral cavity and is beneficial to patients with lumbar spine diseases.
When sleeping in the left lying position, the possibility of nightmares will be high due to heart pressure. has no heart problems with the right lying position , so the right lying position is considered to be a more correct sleeping position.
lying on the right side also helps to clean up garbage in the body, thereby reducing the incidence of Alzheimer's disease and the risk of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Is insomnia a disease?
More or less adults in life have experienced insomnia or occasionally transient insomnia, especially when people face competitions and exams or some major events, they are prone to poor sleep and experience varying degrees of insomnia, which is not medically considered a pathological state.
However, long-term insomnia or insomnia without any cause is not commensurate with the objective event, lasting more than one week, and physical and mental damage, which is a pathological condition.
- What is insomnia?
Insomnia usually refers to the person involved being dissatisfied with sleep time and sleep quality, obviously feeling uncomfortable, and affecting work, study and social interaction during the day. Note that there are three keywords here, sleep time, feeling and experience after waking up from deep sleep.
- Insomnia is divided into:
Usually many people will suffer from insomnia in the above three situations or in 1 to 2 situations, they will feel listless, drowsy and weak when they wake up the second morning.
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What are the benefits of adequate sleep?
Improve the body's immunity to fight diseases
When sleeping, the human body will produce a large number of antibodies to enhance the body's resistance. Sleep can speed up the self-repair of various tissues in the body. In daily life, doctors often tell patients to rest well. This is also the reason why many people with colds and fevers often become more relaxed after experiencing sleep, and help the disease recover quickly.
Protect the brain
Eliminate fatigue
Adequate sleep can help the body eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength. When people sleep all the functions of the body are in a low-consuming state, the metabolic rate will also decrease accordingly, and the body's physical strength can be restored. Only when the body works or exercises in a vibrant state can the damage to the body be reduced.
promotes growth and development
teenagers who are in the period of body growth and development need good sleep, busy study and work, and their brains are prone to fatigue, which affects the secretion of growth hormone . Growth hormone in the blood with good sleep can be maintained at a high level for several hours, which is conducive to the growth and development of the body.
Improve skin
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What is the use of exposing your feet when you sleep?
In fact, many people have had such experience in their lives. They cover themselves with a quilt, but they unconsciously expose their feet to the quilt when they sleep. Some people even say that they should expose their feet to the outside when they sleep, especially those who have insomnia, which helps to fall asleep better. So is this statement reliable?
Not everyone can expose their feet when they sleep!
Sleep is the process of the human body's self-recovery. Only in a relatively comfortable environment can the ideal recovery effect be achieved. Therefore, people will adjust their sleeping position from time to time to maintain the most comfortable state of sleep.
For people with different physiques, the heat in the body runs differently. For example, some people have strong internal fire, so they will generate strong heat when sleeping at night. At this time, exposing their feet outside the quilt when sleeping will help dissipate heat, their bodies will be more comfortable, and their sleep quality will be better.
starts from this perspective. For people with strong internal fire, exposing their feet outside when sleeping does help the sleep effect, but for people with weak constitutions, that's another matter.
The feet are the end of the body, so the heat transfer speed is much slower than other parts. In addition, the body is slightly cold, so when exposed to the outside, it can be said that it is cold and cold, which will aggravate various discomforts in the body during sleep.
There are many reflex areas in the soles of the feet, which connect to important acupuncture points, meridians and internal organs of the body. When people fall asleep, their consciousness is blurred. Exposing their feet to harsh conditions will cause cold air to enter the body and eventually become cold, and the inside of the body will also be affected.
When cold air enters the body, it will first hinder the circulation of qi and blood, which will cause blood vessels to be blocked and local congestion. If the circulation of qi and blood is not smooth, the operation of the organs will also occur. Once the discomfort caused by internal abnormalities gradually appears, people will suffer from insomnia at night.
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Doctor reminds: Insomnia or liver-related
Traditional medicine believes that liver controls yin. When the human body enters sleep, blood will flow into the liver. One to three o'clock in the morning is the busiest time when the liver cannot flow back. At this time, the blood in the liver cannot flow back, which will lead to imbalance in the body and a decrease in sleep quality. If we place our feet outside the quilt, it can effectively cool down, and it will bring some benefits to the liver.
If the body is cold, the qi and blood flow slowly, the liver function itself is not as good as other people. In addition to the wrong lifestyle, the dry work efficiency will become lower and lower. Melatonin secretion, including melatonin, which promotes human sleep, is also blocked, thereby affecting sleep quality.
It is not difficult to find that there is a subtle connection between insomnia and liver function. For people with cold , it is easy to cause liver function to decline, which in turn affects sleep. Poor sleep status will increase the burden on the liver. Therefore, if you want to improve your sleep, you should start by adjusting your physical condition.
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