Here's the Best Position to Sleep In to Protect Against Memory Decline

What position do you sleep in? Back, side, front or curled up in a ball? A brain health expert says how you sleep could play an important role in staving off memory loss in later life and that the best position to sleep in is on your side.

Left or right side. It better flushes away toxins from the brain that contribute to memory decline

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What position do you sleep in? Backside? Think about this
wherever you are in your car, in your way to work,
how do you sleep? A brain health expert says how
you sleep could play an important role in staving off
memory loss in later life. The best positions on your side. Now,
everybody tells me this. My shoulders and arm fall asleep
on my side. I have tried. I've tried again. I

(00:20):
put pillows between my legs, I put pillows under my shoulders.
I cannot get to side sleeping, so I'm going to
lose my mind soon.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I used to be a stomach sleeper for so many years,
and now I do side. I'm a stomach sleeper as well.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I can't do it. You told us that during pregnancy
you had to do it. Now you're a variety pack sleeper.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I am. I Actually it's more comfortable for me to
fall asleep on my back or my sides now because
I did it for almost two years.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I literally lay on my back some time stinking about
you telling me that when you're pregnant you had to
do this. I can do it, and I can't do
it were pregnant.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Literally what I would give to be a back sleeper
like I would give anything to.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Be much more cough. Yes it doesn't. I don't. Yes,
that's it seems like it would work better.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Face isn't like smushed into the pillow. You don't have
like all those creases. Yeah, that's the other thing.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Today's quote, Try it if you can. Today's side sleeping.
Today's quote stop showing up for people who wouldn't notice
if you stopped. WHOA like they need to treat you better?
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