7 Reasons Why You Should Sleep On Your Left Side

6. Gives Your Heart a Break

Your heart is the MVP of your body (apart from the brain, that is) and a person’s life depends on its job of beating and pumping blood. This process can be influenced by several external factors, but one thing you can do to make its job easier is to lay on your left side while sleeping.

The heart is connected to the rest of the body through the aorta, which is what carries and deposits blood to it. As it does so, it tends to arch to the left. Sleeping on your left side just ensures that you let gravity do most of the work, taking some pressure off the heart, which would otherwise have to work extra hard to keep it pointing up (left).