![]() ![]() Fortunately, unless sleep apnea makes them quite sleepy throughout the day, it does not appear to decrease lifespan. Perhaps a third of people over 65 have significant degrees of sleep apnea. Clinically significant apneas happen to people who snore, though many snorers are unaware they swore, and central types of sleep apnea present with the brain appearing to not give the signal to breath – making for very, very quiet sleep. For many people with even fair degrees of sleep apnea have far less apneas sleeping on their sides. ![]() So what positions make the most sense? Depends – particularly if you have sleep apnea. We can get ourselves tangled up like and have no idea what we did – though sometimes we’ll have arm or shoulder pain the next morning without any obvious explanation. One Austrian researcher quit after he found close to 800 different human sleep positions. Yet people get into an amazing variety of places when they sleep. Some argue that back sleeping may be best for skin tone and appearance. And position changes throughout the night, generally with the sleeper completely oblivious to all the shifts. Who you sleep with matters a great deal, whether it’s your partner, kids, pets, or all three. Sleep quality is of course, only part of the issue. Writing in the NY Times Science section April 19th, Anahad O’Connor looked at some studies, old and new, about where one should sleep in order to rest well. Position certainly changes how well you sleep. Position is the thing in life – or so my grandmother would tell me.
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