viktorvaughn
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eh?
pillows are terrible for spine curvature. they unnaturally bend your neck forward.
best way to sleep is facing up, so gravity pulls your face evenly, slowing signs of aging. and some other reasons which i forget.
and in this position the only support we need is under the neck: a towel rolled up works fine.
but i'm not disciplined enough to sleep face up every night. so sometimes i do use a pillow for sleeping on the side... with one arm under... mmmm so comfortables
pillows are terrible for spine curvature. they unnaturally bend your neck forward.
No they do not. Your spine has evolved to curve, and it's made of osseous structures (BONES) that help you bend easily. Pathological curvature of the spine is either congenital/genetic or caused by dietary issues or disease. Bad posture can effect--wait for it-- your posture. Osteoporosis is the cause of the humped back in older females and general loss of bone/muscle mass is the cause of same in older males.
Signs of aging are not slowed by sleeping on your back. UVA/UVB rays and gravity cause aging of the skin...that and cellular degeneration/loss of collagen fibers or elasticity.
There's some correlation between SIDS and putting infants to sleep on their stomachs I think...
Oh god the psychology of sleep positions, I have no idea. The science of sleep is really complicated in and of itself, nobody really understands why we sleep as long as we do.
i feel that with my head lying on a horizontal line with the rest of my body, with only support under the neck, is the most comfortable and i wake up with less tension in my neck. and it makes sense doesn't it? instead of having a big object which bends your neck forward. i guess small pillows are better than big ones.
and by signs of aging i mean wrinkles. having even gravity pull all over your face instead of in one particular direction will result in less wrinkles. over time of course.
Also, you will get wrinkles no matter what. Gravity applies always. It doesn't matter how you're lying, or standing, or what. Sunlight is much bigger factor. Women tend to get wrinkles sooner because of hormonal factors, and because they have somewhat thinner dermis than men do.