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When sleeping on your belly, doesn't your back "push" on your lungs? There's then more mass to compress your lungs than when sleeping on your back.
by feb 5y ago
When sleeping on your belly, doesn't your back "push" on your lungs? There's then more mass to compress your lungs than when sleeping on your back.
- shardinator 5y agoThat would make sense. I wonder if, laying on the stomach is actually freeing the phrenic nerve, allowing the diaphragm to work better, and therefore providing more oxygen.