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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP125-Sleep · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Time now for back to the basics and healthcare with Balanced Life Cara Practica.
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  We have doctor Harley joining us. Hey doing doctor Harley, Hey, John,
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  I'm doing a fantastic got to talk about something. I'm excited to talk
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  about. Sleeping. And that's something that if you don't get the right amount
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  of sleep, it ruins your entire day. Right. It's like I was
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  thinking, like, I don't know what. What haven't we talked about in
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  law, Like, we haven't talked about sleep, and that's been something I
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  know I've been hearing a lot in my office lately, either people like I
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  just can't sleep. I'm not getting enough sleep. I wake up roll around
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  where I wake up uncomfortable, or I can't fall asleep because I'm uncomfortable,
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  or I wake up and my neck hurts, you know, all these different
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  things, and it's like, it's crazy how much sleep can affect us.
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  But if you think about it, we spend a good portion of our life
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  sleeping, like one third of it. If you eight hours a night,
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  that's one third of your life. Right. So it's like some people like,
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  man, I wish I got eight hours. Yeah, if you're listening
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  to this, this is the call for you if this is the one that
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  like you're like, I don't sleep very much. It's now it's time to
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  start making some of those changes. So when someone comes in and at times
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  asks like you know, how old is your bed? You know your pill
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  hell? Like how are they do? Have a good one? Not so
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  good one? And usually it's like it could be better, And I know
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  your mattress, they say probably five to seven years about average for when you
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  should be looking at replacing it, especially if it's starting to become uncomfortable and
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  it's kind of older, it's time to get a new mattress. And that's
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  not a bad thing to do. Everyone stall because then you get like that
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  new mattress. For me, when we get a new bad I'll fall asleep
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  like the instant lying. And maybe sometimes it takes a little bit to break
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  in as well. I know when we had first gotten our bed and my
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  husband Weston wasn't so comfortable, it took a while for it to really break
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  in and get comfortable. So that's why they give you like ninety day return
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  because they want to make sure that you've had time to get used to it.
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  Other things are pillows, you know, I get asked what's the best
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  pillow out there. I don't think there's a one size fits all kind of
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  answer to that, because every person sleeps so differently. My best recommendation,
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  though, is something that keeps you in a good neutral posture. If you're
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  laying on your side, your head shouldn't be nearly touching your shoulder if you're
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  laying on that shoulder, and it shouldn't be almos cranked to the other shoulder
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  if you if you're sleep, if you're sleeping on your left shoulder, right,
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  your head shouldn't be almost touching your left shoulder. But then it also
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  shouldn't be jammed up towards your right shoulder. That you want to keep your
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  neck knights and neutral. Also not like forward, like you're all curled up
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  in a ball. Again, that's gonna cause some neck pain. Intention And
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  if you're sleeping on your back, your pillow should support the curve in your
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  neck, so like your head. You shouldn't feel like your head's just like
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  cranked way back. It shouldn't feel like it's cranked way forward. You shouldn't
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  be sleeping side to side so much trying to keep everything in a good neutral
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  posture. That's going to be the best for your spine. What if you
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  roll around a lot, just have a bunch of different pillows and change them
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  out. This is for back side when you're sleeping. It it's kind of
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  hard to like change that. You're like, well, what if I wake
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  up all twisted up in a pretzel? And there's no way I can avoid
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  that. I don't know what to tell you on that other than try to
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  fall asleep at least in good posture. It trying sleeping in a straight jacket
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  maybe not quite that extreme, and it maybe you might sleep tight. They
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  just tie you down, that's it. And maybe it's your bed's not comfortable
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  enough supporting you enough, and that why you roll around. You're moving around
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  so much. So you know, the best kind of bed really is something
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  that's firmer, so it's going to support your curves. Because if you have
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  something that's really soft and pillowy, sure it feels comfortable initially, but you're
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  gonna wake up sore because your body's going to relax into that bed, Especially
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  if it's really cushiony soft, you're gonna lose that curve because those muscles start
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  to expand, they relax and then when you get up in the morning,
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  they contract, you know, to help you stand up right. That's why
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  you're going to have a lot of back paint if you have a really soft
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  one. So something a little bit firmer is going to actually like support the
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  curves in your spine, keeping you in good posture the whole night. And
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  kind of on the same subject, there are times that people will lay down
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  just fine. I go to bed just fine. Then I wake up sore
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  because something happened while I'm sleeping. And it's usually not like they were out,
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  you know, doing a marathon, or maybe they were in their dreams.
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  Who knows, but is that pretty common for people to wake up and
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  have like my back is sore or this is sore. I hear that multiple
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  times a week. What usually causes that is it? It could be the
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  old bed, It could be that you have, you know, misalignments in
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  your spine that things aren't moving very well. So then again as things kind
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  of seeing can relax overnight, that area that's stuck isn't relaxing like it should.
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  So then you wake up and it's just been fighting that relaxation since we're
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  getting adjusted actually can really help with your sleepy want help with your daily aches
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  and pains, but also help calm your nervous system down because that can be
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  an issue too. Someone's just like their brains just don't go go go go,
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  go go go mode all the time. And you know you're finally ready
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  to sleep, brain's like, well, no, we can't sleep. We
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  got all this stuff to do. Yeah, here's like, I'm so tired,
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  I just want to sleep. That's where if your nervous system's overactive,
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  you're stuck in fight or flight, it's hard to sleep as well. So
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  that's one thing we see with chiropractic. It's helping to calm the nervous system
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  down, helping to remove a lot of irritation. You start sleeping better because
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  your brain's not just on go mode all the time. If somebody listening is
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  going, i'd like to know more about this, they can come and talk
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  to you, or they can get ahold of you. What's the best way
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  to connect with balance life chiropractic. Yeah, if you're ready to actually start
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  sleeping better, like not just getting more sleep, a better quality sleep,
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  you know, it's a great time to contact us. Give us a call
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  at six zero five. Two one five one seven eight five, or shoot
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  us a message on our Facebook page. We'd love to chat and let you
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  know how we can help you get better sleep. Very nice. You can
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  also find them online. Their website is balancedlifsd dot com