do you or your loved one snore what causes us and is there something we can
do about this hi I'm dr. Lawrence woods from the spidery and today we're going
to investigate why we store and things we can do about this researchers have
found that chronic snoring stems from both an amalgamation of factors both
genetic and certainly hereditary conditions such as obstructive sleep
apnea and non-genetic such as lifestyle and while snoring doesn't have any let's
say straightforward official remedy there's a large array of treatments and
alterations to one's lifestyle that you can do to help stop snoring gender as in
a binary sense plays a significant part in determine how susceptible you are to
snore as a 40% of men snore in comparison to let's say 24 percent of
women and age is also related to storm but the latter decreases in frequency as the former advances that say past the
age of seventy other factors included position loss sleep and for example
those who people who sleep on their backs and this is due to the tongue
being relaxed turns sleep slide into the back of the Ference which obstructs
respiration it could be anatomical physiological traits like a narrowing of
the lumen or airway passages large adenoids uvula too much tissue in the
back of the throat contribute vastly to the occurrence of snoring not getting
enough sleep due to the throat muscles becoming too relaxed or asleep it could
be nasal congestion anyone out there who's ever broken their nose knows about
deviated septums which can cause snoring and the big one would be smoking and
alcohol consumption which also again relaxes the throat too much just like sleep deprivation there's also one other
cause for obstructive sleep apnea which means a temporary loss of breath while sleeping due to an obstruction in the
airflow usually at the level of nose or throat and it's usually caused when the time slips in the back of the Ference
again or enlarged adenoids or tonsils and symptoms include that's a gasping
choking headaches and not just normal headaches headaches it lasts a long time
especially in the morning persistent drowsiness or tightness hypertension nocturnal chest pains and a
sore throat upon waking up and this disorder is mostly
genetic but it occurs in people who are overweight as well and OSA requires some serious medical attention and although
it's not necessarily lethal condition it can be a signal for much bigger problems
down the road like cardiovascular disease or even cancer
there are many ways to reduce snoring especially for those who do it a lot and
very loud and here are some of them usually the last resort is surgery and this is where doctors remove tissues
that maybe according to them in excess in the back of the throat and the term
for this is maxilla mandibular advancement and the night sounds like
fighting doesn't but the translation here is it pushes the jaw forward in
order to improve the airway another medical treatment would be the use of
oral appliances such as mouth guards to keep everything in your mouth in place
according to my patients these are rather unpleasant due to the fact that
they may cause dryness in the mouth or even pain in the jaw continuous positive
air pressure CPAP you see work in this field a lot back in the 80s and and this
is rather expensive and possibly disturbing sonic factor on sleep it
entails the use of a machine or a pump that pumps air into the sleeper through
breathing masks and after the air has been pressurized and humidified but all
those three things are kind of passive treatments and if you're the kind of
person out there who objectively looks for things to do with your let's say own
volition experts feel you can try these things weight loss is a big one
try intermittent fasting it and there's a lot of exaggerated claims about
intermittent fasting right now especially it's being trendy didn't
Hollywood but personally I've been doing it for decades long before I nice I told
you from New Jersey long before even heard the word that the term
intermittent fasting but saying this there's all types of eating patterns and
they don't suit everyone I get it okay I'm just saying that it works for me
long story short according to the intermittent fasting regime you focus on
one you eat not what you eat and they say try to eat within a four to six hour
window but here's a simple most much more simple way of looking at it just
get breakfast there's really no reason to eat breakfast okay and I could get a
lot of hate mail for saying it but just try it before you before you get right
to me okay there's another one brush your teeth at the end of your last meal so this way you won't snack at night the
next one researchers feel by quitting smoking and there's a strong correlation
between smoking and snoring nasal strips that's kind of trending right now to
expand the nasal breathing passages most chemists and drugstores sell these
things as I said earlier avoiding alcohol and
sedatives especially late at night which relaxes the throat too much sleeping on
your side especially left since the right side might lead to digestive and
excretory system problems better bedding softer mattresses may help encourage
side sleeping as it complies to the shape of the secret body which causes
less strain because your body's on the pen ammonium knife edge but it's less strain on it the spine the hips the
shoulders while you find the good pillow that we're gonna reduce the snoring but
keep the sleepers head in the right place rather than sliding back in my
pillow up the dream pillow I've been working on this for years and I think I
got it and lastly sufficient rest around eight
hours is optimal and I just did a video on this I'm gonna put the link below on
how you can achieve this I hope this helps I'll talk to you real soon oh and
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