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A Lifestyle Approach to Remedy
Snoring
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A Lifestyle Approach to Remedy
Snoring by: Kevin Meates
If you
want to remedy snoring, you have to find the underlying cause. Snoring
is not an affliction like the common cold, where you wake up one
morning and you’ve just got it. It is something that normally arrives
slowly over time. Most people can’t remember the day and date that
their snoring started. It was sometime in my mid 30’s or some such
vague description is the normal response to a question on its arrival.
The lifestyle approach to remedy your snoring, doesn’t treat it
as a condition or a disease. But rather treats snoring as a symptom, or
a warning, that the body is out of balance.
I like to think of
snoring like the ground proximity alarm in a modern jet aircraft. (The
one that goes “WOOP! WOOP! PULL UP! PULL UP!”, if the aircraft gets too
close to the ground when it’s not supposed to). If you are a pilot,
you’d prefer not to hear it. But if you did, you would be grateful for
the warning before dire consequences arrived. I'm sure the warning
siren must be very annoying when it is activated but a lot less painful
than the alternative. Likewise snoring is annoying, but not responding
to the warning may have more serious consequences.
The above
example may seem extreme but the reality is there has been an enormous
amount of research in recent years linking snoring to a range of
serious conditions such as hypertension and coronary disease.
The human body is a truly amazing machine. It has the ability
to self regulate a complex array of interacting chemical and electrical
processes within fine tolerances. This ability of homeostasis means the
body can keep the internal systems (e.g. blood pressure, body
temperature, acid-base balance) in equilibrium despite changes in the
external environment.
However if the body is subjected to
persistent extreme conditions outside the normal bounds of function
then it may not be able to rectify the situation without help. For
instance if your body gets cold, it starts to shiver to maintain its
core body temperature. But if your body is subjected to sub zero
temperatures without any external heating then shivering alone will not
be able to stop the inevitable deadly conclusion. But the act of
shivering is, in itself, a warning for you to take some action; put
some warmer clothes on for example.
Snoring can be set off by a
number of different balance upsets such as your diet, your breathing,
your stress levels, and your physical environment. If you
systematically work through these factors two important things are
going to happen. You’re eventually going to stop snoring and you’ll end
up with a healthier body.
Once you start you may be pleasantly
surprised, as often, a snoring solution doesn't always require a big
change in your lifestyle.
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