How To Stop Snoring

If you snore, stop burying your head in the sand about your problem. It’s easy to make jokes about, but it’s far from a laughing matter.

Snoring is an extremely serious condition that can have extremely negative impacts on your health. For one thing, if you snore heavily and regularly, you’re not really getting a good night’s sleep.

This is not just speculation; it’s been medically proven. Heavy snorers wake up repeatedly each night for a second or two, but it’s so fast that they don’t realize it. You may think you’ve slept through the night, but you actually haven’t.

Just think of the the difference this alone would make. You now interrupt your sleep several times a night when you snore. Stop Snoring, and you’ll get much better sleep and have more energy immediately.

And if you snore, stop searching for the latest fad or gimmick to treat the problem. You’ve seen the ads for sprays, pills, tablets, capsules, strips, etc. Do you really think a pill or capsule is going to cure your snoring?

There’s not much scientific evidence for such a view. Keep in mind that anyone can put up a website with any number of “testimonials”. That doesn’t mean that every single product is a scam. But use your common sense and retain a healthy dose of skepticism.

A lot of these products are on the market because they know that the vast majority of people won’t take the time to ask for their money back. Make no mistake - there’s really only one guaranteed way to Stop Snoring long term, and that’s to change your body.

It’s the muscles in the back of your mouth and throat that are causing your snoring problem. It’s hard to see how a pill or spray would do much about that.

There are only two ways of changing your body to cure snoring. One is surgery, and the other is exercises designed for the muscles involved in snoring. Don’t be fooled by fads and gimmicks.

There are plenty of snoring devices available.

Let’s see….

Mouth pieces.

Nose pieces.

Pillows.

Snore Wizards.

Chin straps

Nose strips

Herbal Lozenges

Throat Sprays

And on and on……

Snoring always involves tissue constricting your airways. That’s it.

Devices attempt to somehow holding the tissue, pushing it, shrinking it etc. The problem with that is, provided you found the correct tissue that needed correction, that these devices are temporary at best. And that is IF you found the right device to treat YOUR problem.

Devises, no matter how attractive they seem, “Just put this in or on your nose and your problem is gone forever” do not have any effect on < what is causing the snoring. Meaning that IF you are lucky enough to spend money on a devise that happens to target your specific cause of snoring, (and there are many causes) it will only work when you use it. Sometimes using it means you have to sacrifice comfort which may keep you sleepless in order to “fix” your snoring.

Remember, snoring is caused by a partial obstruction of your airways. The obstruction is caused by parts of you that have either lack of tone, such as your tongue for example. Lying on your back with a tongue that lacks tone can allow the tongue to fall back into your throat, and, presto, you are snoring. The same is the case with the soft palate. When it lacks tone it can vibrate when you breathe and thus cause the passing of air to create a sound. You recognize, I’m sure, the feeling you have in your throat if you wake up from your own snoring. Or pay attention next time it happens.

The opposite is true as well that tissue that is too tight can press on the airways which can result in the same result: Snoring.

When getting a snoring device it is best to try to understand where your snoring is coming from.

Snoring treatments are a plenty….When there is a need there are always plenty of solutions. Especially if there is money to be made Nothing wrong with that, but let’s look at what’s available for the sufferer of a snorer, or the snorer him (or her) self.

First, it is important to understand what causes snoring.

Snoring is caused when the airways are partially obstructed.

No more, and no less.

Now, there are a few different reasons WHY the airways are obstructed and herein lies the problem with most available products, AND available surgeries.

Most snoring treatments will focus on ONE possible cause, out of many, and make a product to correct that. Not only may what you buy something to correct something you do not have, it will only correct it as long as you either wear it, put it into your mouth, *gag* or your nose.

Then we have surgery in the hopes to cure snoring. We have to admit to being very biased against surgery. Not only is it expensive, the results are unpredictable and may come with a high price, such as problems swallowing, changes to your voice, and chronically dry mouth, just to mention a few. No small matters…

But let’s get back to the cause.

Snoring is caused when the airways are partially obstructed.

The obstruction can be in a variety of places. The obstruction always involves soft tissues such as muscles, tongue etc. Sometimes the obstruction is due to swelling of the tissues in the case of allergies.

The truth is when the tissues or muscles surrounding the airways are well toned, the airways will be open as you sleep, and you will not snore. That’s right.

Most snoring treatments introduce artificial and uncomfortable devices to keep your body, or body parts, in a position to discourage snoring. That is a band aid at best, and frequently ineffective. Not only do they use only when used or worn, if they do not target your specific cause for your snoring problem, they are utterly ineffective.

Correcting the lack of tone in the tissues surrounding the airways is not only very effective and easy, the exercises target most causes of snoring, making it not only the most non-invasive and comfortable snoring treatment, but one of the least expensive as well.

Imagine, you could do these exercises and stop snoring, or do a snoring surgery where you risk future changes in your voice and swallowing problems.

Stopping the snores from disrupting the quiet of the night, and even causing disruptions in ones marriage can be top priority for a snorer. And it should be. Not only is snoring annoying, sometimes downright irritating, it has effects in many areas. Some who snore have to sleep alone in order to not cause sleep deprivation in their partner. That can have less than positive effects for ones relationship.

The market place is full of all sorts of devices and gadgets to help people to stop snoring. Look at the plethora of mouth pieces supposedly designed to keep your mouth in the right position. (Who could even sleep with one of those things in the mouth?)

But do they work?
Yes and no. Some of them have some effect as long as they are worn. Don’t use the device, and your are snoring again. The problem with devices are that they do not address the cause of the snoring. There are a number of common reasons for people to snore, and IF the device you bought targets the reason you snore, you can get temporary help.

The cause for sounds to be created as you breathe is when the air gets partially obstructed. Period.

That obstruction can have a number of causes but always involve tissue or muscles that are either too tight, as is common with the jaw, or to loose, as is common with the tongue, soft palate or throat.

The Case Of The Flopping Palate
When you are deeply at sleep and your muscles are deeply relaxed, muscles or tissue that lack tone can cause your tongue to fall back into the throat or your soft palate to “flop around in the wind”.

The real solution to snoring is to not have tissue that is too loose or too tight, thus allowing the air to pass freely and soundlessly. Like we exercise other parts of our body to keep them toned and supple, we can exercise the tissue along our entire airways to free up our breathing and stop snoring. Voice teachers know this.
And while exercising the muscles in your throat and tongue may seem far fetched it is not far fetched for singers and singing instructors.

Many of us groan when we hear the word exercise The good news is that these exercises are not only easy to do, but you do not even need to join a gym! Nor do you need to spend more than a few short minutes a day. A few simple exercises for a few weeks and you may be snore free. I think that beats some gadget in your mouth for the rest of your life.

Do you know that about 23% of couples have serious issues with snoring? Finding an effective snoring treatment is usually high in the list of priorities! The biggest problem is not how irritating it can be to be woken continously by someone snoring, or to get an elbow in the midriff from a fed up spouse, the major problem is the effects of the sleep deprivation that results from being or sleeping with a snorer.

Sleep deprivation causes not only psychological and mental effects, such as irritability, poor concentration and focus just to mention a few, science has proven that our bodies age much faster, and tests done after sleep deprivation showed altered hormone production affecting our metabolism, including signs of pre diabetes that reversed after adequate sleep.

In order to be a smart shopper and find effective help for your, or your spouses, snoring it is important to understand what the CAUSES of snoring are.

Snoring occurs when the airways are partially blocked, or when the tissue around the airway is loose and untoned, allowing the tissue to vibrate. Think of a violin string. It vibrates, and it sounds. So it is in your throat.

Now, the blockages/vibrations/loose tissue can be from your tongue, your palate, muslces around your jaw, partial obstructions in your nose etc. Not addressing where the problem stems from will not yield results, which is why most snoring devices and remedies have only a small percentage of success.

What do we do when our muscles are flabby and lacking tone?

We Exercise them!

And that is exactly what Icelandic therapist Christian Goodman discovered. When he exercised the muscles around the airways, his chronic snoring went away.

We can train out throat and tongue as easily as any other body part. Easier, in fact. The exercises take only minutes per day.

Makes sense? Yes, ofcourse it does. When the tongue is no longer so slack that it enters your throat when you sleep, you won’t snore. Exercising the throat in just the right way will strengthen it, and the soft palate not allowing the soft palate to flop around, obstructing the air flow as you lay on your back.

Ready to to spend a few minutes per day to rectify the underlying cause of your snoring? Only you can decide, but you could be snore-free within a few weeks.