Along comes this rather unsettling advice and warning about our sleep positions. I honestly believe many science experts are just making stuff up in order to get published and some of this causes us unnecessary worry.
"When you lie down to sleep, the position you take can affect your health and even how you look."
Talk about a come-on which will probably keep us up at night which is worse than sleep position. Let's get to the "how you look" part. "Side sleeping will actually increase the number of wrinkles you have because side sleeping, you push your face against the pillow and that can actually increase the wrinkles, especially if you lay on one side all the time,” said Dr. Ravi Johar, chief medical officer for United Healthcare in the Missouri-Illinois area. It also causes neck and shoulder pain.
I'd say this is pushing the envelope in order to get people to read.
Moving on to the health risks associated with our sleep positions. There are way too many and there is no position listed which is what this guy would consider the safest. You can read them all for yourself if you want to be kept awake all night.
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