Why Sleep With a Pillow Between Your Legs?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Could something as simple as going to sleep with a pillow between your legs have benefits? Check this out!
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| 0:00.0 | So today we're going to answer the very, very vital important question, why you should |
| 0:26.7 | sleep with a pillow between your legs. So number one, it can actually reduce your low back pain, |
| 0:32.2 | or prevent low back pain from occurring, because what happens when you lay on your side is your |
| 0:37.5 | knees come together and it rotates your hips forward. So your spine is not an alignment. So if you're |
| 0:43.4 | laying there throughout the night, several hours or more, with your pelvis rotated too forward, |
| 0:49.8 | that's going to put strain on your lower back and throughout your alignment, just enough to create |
| 0:54.9 | some distortion in your spine. Now this can also tug on the largest nerve in the body, the |
| 1:00.7 | sciatic nerve, and also irritate that nerve. And number three, it can reduce knee pain because |
| 1:06.3 | if your knees are held together with pressure, that can irritate the knees, especially the inside |
| 1:11.0 | of the knee where you have the medial meniscus, which is probably the most common source of knee |
| 1:16.6 | pain where you have either a tear on the medial meniscus or some type of weakness in that area. |
| 1:22.4 | Number four, it can reduce hip pain, okay? And number five, it can improve your breathing because |
| 1:28.7 | if you have sleep apnea or some type of sinus problem and you're sleeping in your back, |
| 1:33.7 | that alone can reduce the air that travels through the back of the throat. So by sleeping in the |
| 1:38.0 | side that will increase air going through your sonuses, I would also try to recommend sleeping on |
| 1:44.8 | your right side instead of the left side. You may find that you have a better sleep, especially if |
| 1:51.1 | you have liver problems because the liver is on the right side. So if you sleep on the left side, |
| 1:56.8 | you have this heavy organ that can somewhat compress the lungs and reduce the air that's |
| 2:02.1 | traveling through your body. So I always like to sleep on the right side primarily. And so that |
| 2:06.2 | way the lung isn't interfered with the heavy liver, which is about three and a half pounds. So |
| 2:12.3 | try it out, it may work for you. Now as far as the pillow size, I like to use something that is a |
| 2:18.3 | flatter pillow, not too big, actually not too small, just enough to raise up the knee. So my spine |
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