{"id":29362,"date":"2016-08-09T21:54:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=29362"},"modified":"2016-08-09T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:56:28","slug":"the-way-you-sleep-can-affect-your-brains-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/the-way-you-sleep-can-affect-your-brains-health\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WAY YOU SLEEP CAN AFFECT YOUR BRAIN\u2019S HEALTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lady-sleeping.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lady-sleeping.jpg\" alt=\"lady sleeping\" width=\"525\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lady-sleeping.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lady-sleeping-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lady-sleeping-174x98.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did you sleep last night? Did you sleep on your back, side or stomach?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time you start taking the way you sleep really important because according to a study published in <em>The Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>, sleeping on your side rather than your back or stomach is important for the health of your brain.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers, sleeping on your side helps the brain to discard waste products, thereby reducing the risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s and other neurological diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The research was carried out by Dr Helene Benveniste, Principal investigator and a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Radiology at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Benveniste carried out the research by using rodents. The rodents slept in three positions &#8211; lateral (side), prone (down) and supine (up) &#8211; as they were used to examine the glymphatic pathway (where cerebrospinal fluid filters through the brain and exchanges with interstitial fluid to clear waste).<\/p>\n<p>The findings revealed that the glymphatic transport was the most efficient in the lateral position compared to any other.<\/p>\n<p>It is important you adjust your sleeping position as sleeping wrongly can accelerate memory loss and Alzheimer&#8217;s disease due to the brain waste not being correctly eliminated.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Phil<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did you sleep last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[2794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29364,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29362\/revisions\/29364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}