How To Stop Snoring!
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Join us to learn various strategies to address and eliminate snoring! The reason we snore is a partial obstruction to air trying to get through our nasal passages or mouth while we are trying to breathe at night. This happens for 3 reasons: Tissue swelling, tissue laxity, too much tissue. Here's how we work on each cause of snoring:
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1. For Tissue Swelling/Inflammatory Sinus Changes:
Minimize Inhalant triggers:
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-Hypoallergenic bedding
-Netti Pot/Neil Med Sinus Rinses - https://amzn.to/2GBc4ns
-Evaluate air quality - address mold issues
Minimize oral triggers:
-Avoid your food allergies/intolerances
-Explore the side effects of any medications you are taking
-Avoid inflammatory foods before bed - ie, wine/sulfites, dairy, sugar, flour, fried foods
-Quit Smoking
2. For Tissue Laxity:
Support healthy connective tissue
- Take collagen/connective tissue supportive nutrients: watch our collagen + MSM videos!
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Improve your muscle tone
- systemic exercise as well specific snoring exercises to tone your throat (look out for next week's video!!)
- Change your sleep position
- Sleep on your side instead of your back
- Avoid things that lead to decreased tissue tone:
- Exhaustion, cigarettes/nicotine, alcohol, sleep meds, etc
3. Too much tissue:
Due to:
Our genetics, our gender
Polyps
Being overweight
Explore:
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mouth devices
laser procedures
See your ENT who can help with more of these options.
Have fun with Apps that help you monitor snoring!
*Get tested for sleep apnea! You may need a CPAP machine. Not everyone who snores has sleep apnea, but snoring is a symptom of sleep apnea.
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