Many are told: “It’s normal, it’s age.”
But as a geriatrician, I, Dr. Luis Luna, have seen too many patients improve to accept that phrase as fate.
Dizziness and a heavy head are not a mandatory part of aging.
In most cases they are related to daily habits that seem harmless, but that disrupt balance, circulation and the way the brain interprets movement.
Think of your balance as an orchestra: hydration, breathing, inner ear, blood pressure, neck muscles…
If one is out of tune, the whole thing loses harmony and dizziness appears.
Let’s review, one by one, the 7 most frequent mistakes I see in consultation and how to correct them with simple but powerful changes.
Mistake 7: Going to bed right after dinner
Many older adults have dinner, watch television for a while and, in less than 20 minutes, they are already in bed.
It seems like a quiet habit, but it has consequences:
The stomach is still working and needs a lot of blood to digest.
By going to bed so early, circulation is redistributed to the abdomen and momentarily less blood reaches the brain.
The next morning the heavy head appears and the instability when getting up.
I remember Don Alfredo, 72 years old.
He would get dizzy just when he got up, the rest of the day he was fine. The problem wasn’t the morning, it was the night: he had dinner and went to bed right away.
Just by waiting 2 hours between dinner and sleep, her episodes of dizziness were drastically reduced.
NextSleeping immediately after eating also increases the risk of silent reflux, which irritates structures near nerves involved in balance.
What to do
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