New clinical research suggests a natural cure for snoring
does exist
A recent study published by Brazilian doctors in the journal
CHEST shows that practicing simple tongue and mouth exercises to treat snoring
produce near-miraculous results!
US doctors have backed the research. Barbara Phillips,
Medical Director of the Sleep Laboratory at the University of Kentucky College
of Medicine explains that “’this study demonstrates a promising, noninvasive
treatment for large populations suffering from snoring, the snorers and their
bed partners, that are largely omitted from research and treatment”.
During the last few years, sleep specialists, researchers
and ear-nose and throat doctors in the U.S. have been experimenting with the
effectiveness of exercises in tightening and toning the throat muscles as a
potential treatment for snoring. Their findings conclude that exercising those
weaker muscles that are directly responsible for the problem, can reduce
snoring intensity by 60 percent and frequency by 39 percent. This is an
exciting discovery especially since any alternative available today, such as
over-the-counter treatments, have not shown to be as promising.
“While there is no shortage of snoring related treatments,
such as mouthpieces, special pillows, nasal strips and sprays, most of them
have not been proven to work in clinical trials,” states the MayoClinic. On the
other hand, according to various clinical studies testing the effectiveness of
mouth and tongue exercises, the results are definitive: the tongue and mouth
exercises have “significantly reduced snoring in our study group,” says Dr.
Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho, the study author in the CHEST press release.
Unlike the various anti-snoring contraptions on the market,
exercising the tongue, mouth, throat, and jaw focuses on the root cause of
snoring and provides a more effective, non-invasive and permanent solution.
Snoring is caused by the vibration of weak muscles in the
face. In a healthy subject, the facial muscles are firm and do not vibrate. In
snorers, however, as air travels through the upper airways the weak muscles
begin to vibrate and produce the snoring sound. By exercising those slackened
throat, tongue, jaw and mouth muscles, just as doing pushups or situps in the
gym, these muscles strengthen and realign, returning to their former youthful
structure and condition.
Barbara A. Phillips, MD, says she highly recommends trying
these simple exercises. “This study adds to the evidence that people can
improve their own health with simple behavioral changes that they can do on
their own,” she says. “Frankly, this will change the advice that I give to my
patients who snore.” And that’s a lot of people.
Snoring: An Epidemic
According to the National Sleep Foundation, snoring affects
approximately 90 million American across both genders, with 37 million
suffering from the problem on a regular basis. As people age, snoring can
become a more serious problem with real health consequences.
What may seem at first like a harmless inconvenience, it is
important to treat the problem before it escalates into a more serious condition
such as sleep apnoea, a disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts
throughout the night. Sleep apnea is linked to poor concentration, fatigue,
memory impairment, hypertension, diabetes, and, potentially heart attacks
during the night.
Snoring Exercises Go Viral
Following the latest finding, this innovative technique to
solving the age-old snoring problem has quickly resonated with long-time
snorers and has quickly gone viral and featured on many of the world’s top
publications such as The New York Times, Fox News, Prevention.com, Men’s
Journal, and the Telegraph.
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