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Nausea sucks. It’s painful and all-consuming, and there’s almost nothing to be done once it hits. Little things can help—get some fresh air, sip a ginger ale, nibble on crackers—but nausea is on its own timeline. It sticks around until it’s ready to leave.
Perhaps that’s why I’ve held on so tightly to a bit of wisdom that my mom gave me when I was a kid plagued by stomachaches. It was something I could do that maybe, maybe, would help bring an end to the pain. And it didn’t require much effort. The trick, my mom told me, was to simply lie down on my left side.
The way I imagined it as a kid was that the hole in my stomach that led to my intestines was on the left side, so lying positioned that way would help it drain faster and make it stop hurting sooner. (Turns out this is not what is happening, but it’s what I believed at the time.) I’d lie on my side and envision the painful stuff inside me swirling out of my stomach. These days, whether it be the flu, a hangover, or stop-and-go traffic, I still find myself lying on my left side, urging the nausea away. It helps—a bit!
I’ve only recently begun to wonder if the trick is more than just a piece of mom wisdom. Turns out the whole concept of resting on your left side stems from the tradition of ayurveda, a system of medicine that originated in India more than 3,000 years ago. More recently, scientists have studied how body position can affect digestion, focusing on acid reflux. The evidence suggests that lying on the left side indeed reduces heartburn. For instance, in a small study from 2000, those who lay on their left side experienced fewer and shorter reflux episodes in the four hours after eating a fatty meal than did those who lay on their right side
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James' World 2 
Nov 08, 2023 @ 01:19:21
That really helps 🙂
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