Did you know that snoring can lead to heart attacks? Does that sound too far-fetched to you? Well consider this fact: When you snore, your tongue falls back into the throat, which results in a constriction of the air passages, thus allowing less oxygen to pass in and out of your lungs while you sleep.
Sometimes when people chronically snore in their sleep, they can develop a condition called sleep apnea in which the individual literally stops breathing for brief periods of time, several times per hour.
If you consistently maintain a lower-than-normal blood-oxygen content while you sleep, then over the course of time, you run the risk of developing more serious health problems later on in life.
When you stop breathing, your body will trigger a surge of adrenalin and hormones, which will raise your blood pressure.
The higher blood pressure, in turn, elevates your risk of suffering a heart attack.
The best way stop-snoring solution is to eliminate the cause of your snoring in the first place.
If you can train the muscles in your tongue, the jaws, the nasal passages, and the soft palate to resist involuntary movement during sleep, then you can prevent snoring from occurring.
These can be trained by performing simple exercises every day, such as chewing exercises (to strengthen the jaws), tongue stretching exercises (to strengthen the tongue), and believe it or not, even singing exercises (to strengthen the soft palate in the roof of your mouth that has a tendency to collapse during sleep).
Regular and consistent performance of these exercises can help condition them to remain rigid even when the muscles become relaxed during sleep.
Who would have thought that something so humorous and seemingly benign as snoring could kill you? Our society has prided itself on making a mockery of snoring.
But the reality is that snoring is not laughing matter.