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Treat Snoring
Naturally - Alzheimer’s, Snoring
and Sleep Apnea Connection
Alzheimer’s
is most often considered an incurable and unavoidable disease. Many of us have
helplessly watched loved ones experience this painful condition, steadily
degenerating the person’s functionality and personality.
Recent
studies have, however, connected Alzheimer’s to a couple of very unexpected
co-conspirators, snoring
and sleep apnea. And by drawing some common sense conclusions, researchers
have come up with a method that may help EVERY Alzheimer’s patient to not only
stop this horrible disease but maybe also reverse it to some level.
What’s
even more important, this gives hope that Alzheimer’s may be totally prevented
from developing in the first place.
This
full-featured article is especially important if you or someone close to you snores.
Please read on.
Finding
the Cause of Alzheimer’s
Our
story begins in British Colombia University a few years back. Researchers came
up with this crazy idea to test how oxygen deprivation on mice affected their
memory. For 6 months, the mice only received about 40% of the oxygen they
normally did for 16 hours per day. The rest of the day they could breathe
normally.
They
didn’t have to wait long to see for sure that the mice suffering oxygen
deprivation had very diminished brain and memory function. They couldn’t find
their way through a simple maze or complete other tasks normal mice could.
This
was maybe no big surprise, but there was another thing researchers didn’t
expect to find. After six months, these middle-aged mice (mice usually live for
around 12 – 24 months) had developed twice as many beta-amyloid plaques as
normal mice their age. These plaques are similar to the plaques that cause
Alzheimer’s in humans.
A
study conducted a couple of years later by Chicago’s Feinberg School of
Medicine supported the view that long lasting lack of blood delivery to the
brain may be the main underlying cause of Alzheimer’s.
Several
other studies have linked various conditions that reduce the blood flow up to
the brain to increased risk of Alzheimer’s. This includes, among others, migraine,
high blood pressure, high cholesterol and neck injuries. For improved brain
health, it’s essential to address these issues.
Connection
Between Alzheimer’s and Sleep Apnea
There
is, however, one condition that has a higher connection to Alzheimer’s than any
other, and that is sleep apnea. According to a study published in the November, 2008 edition
of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 70-80% of those who had
Alzheimer’s, also suffered sleep apnea. WOW… almost 4 out of 5 people!
Notably,
the researchers did not conclude if it was the Alzheimer’s that caused the sleep apnea or the other way around.
Sleep apnea
is a condition where person stops breathing for a few seconds, sometimes up to
a minute, several times per night. This deprives the brain of 80% of normal
oxygen throughout the night. There are examples of people going into a coma and
even dying from sleep apnea. That’s how serious it is.
And
since the brain takes 20-40% of all oxygen you inhale, you see that any lack
will directly affect your brain function.
Most
common treatment of sleep apnea is the use of the CPAP breathing machine that helps deliver
oxygen to the lungs. So in 2011, researchers at the University of California,
San Diego built on the previous research and applied CPAP machines to 52
Alzheimer’s patients who also suffered sleep apnea. In a matter of weeks, the patient’s nerve, brain and
behavior function improved drastically during the day.
Note
that CPAP is not a cure for Alzheimer’s but it has been shown to help pretty
much everyone to improve this condition.
I’m
very much afraid that we’re far away from curing Alzheimer’s in later stages.
My concern is to help people improve the early stages of the condition and hold
it back to some level. But even more importantly, I think it’s possible to
totally avoid developing Alzheimer’s and reverse it at the earliest stages.
Where
Snoring
Comes in
This
brings us to the issue of Sleep Apnea and its connection to snoring.
One
of the most obvious symptoms of sleep apnea is snoring. Most people who suffer
sleep apnea also snore pretty loudly.
Normal
snoring is not as serious as sleep apnea. I believe, however, that all snoring
should be taken seriously. You see, snoring is always caused by some kind of
blockage in the breathing passages. This creates pressure that vibrates the
soft tissues in these passages, creating the irritating snoring sound.
Whereas
sleep apnea creates a complete blockage of the breathing passages several times
per night, normal snoring creates a partial block. This is, however, enough to
drastically reduce the amount of oxygen you receive throughout the night. This
is also an indicator that you’re not breathing effectively throughout the day,
either. The blockage doesn’t disappear during the day, you just manage it
better.
Remember
that the mice in the Alzheimer’s study didn’t develop plaque overnight. It
built up in their brain after months of relatively mild oxygen deprivation. The
same thing may be happening with you or someone you love if you don’t breathe
effectively enough day and night.
This
is on top of the fact that the oxygen level in most cities today is much lower
than it used to be only 50 years ago.
The
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drugs is our Stop Snoring Exercise Program. It includes easy
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Several
of our other programs address the issue of lack of oxygen in the body.
Our migraine and headache program helps directly
deliver oxygen up to the brain (there is close connection between migraine and
Alzheimer’s).
And
our High Blood Pressure Program and Cholesterol Guide obviously help
with arteries and oxygen-rich blood delivery throughout the body.
Treat Snoring
Naturally - Does Snoring Cause Divorce?
I
have often been guilty of letting this thought run through my mind when I read
some of the commentary related to people asking for help with their snoring
issues.
The
latest comes from a reader in Alabama who asked me to share her story as not
only a caution to others, but also as a reassurance of hope.
Our
reader, whom we will call Thea, wrote in to describe the effect that snoring
had on her family. She and her husband started out happy enough, with a great
marriage, common interests, desire for family, etc.
They
had a little house in a suburb outside of Mobile and he had a great job that
offered her the chance to live her dream, which was to be a mom in the home for
their two children.
After
the usual sleep issues that happen to all parents when the kids are small
resolved themselves, they sort of got into a good, healthy groove with their
sleeping as Thea and her husband were great about keeping a schedule, eating
right, getting enough water and all that.
But
as time wore on, and as Thea and her husband started to approach 40, they
started to gain a little bit of weight, started to show some signs of anxiety
(especially as the economy worsened), and started to wander away from their healthy
lifestyle.
She
blamed the trend on going back to work part time, coupled with the myriad of
activities the kids were in along with the travel and time consumption of other
daily activities and they started relying heavily on convenience foods and takeout.
She
explains that it was about this time that she started snoring and he started
the tossing, kicking, and twitching of restless leg syndrome.
Every
time she would start snoring, he’d wake and nudge her. Every time he would roll
over in bed, she’d wake because he’d elbowed her or scratched her on the leg
with a toenail.
They
were both beginning to suffer the ravages of sleep deprivation, dosing off
during the day and getting really snippy with each other and the kids.
So
they decided that in order to at least try and get them both some better sleep
that they would take turns sleeping in the spare bedroom. Up to this point they
hadn’t spent a night apart in 16 years of marriage.
Sleep
seemed to be easier to come by with this arrangement, but it was kind of sad
for them, she explains. They still loved one another, and still had a good time
on vacations, going on dates together or on outings with the kids and still
went to church every Saturday evening like clockwork.
She
was kind of vague explaining what happened next. “Christian,” she said, “I just
don’t know what happened next. It was like someone had been coming in at night
and had been stealing parts of our marriage a little bit at a time.”
Before
I could even wonder what that meant, she went on to explain it. “We used to be
so close, but even after we started
sleeping better it seemed like we were a thousand miles away from each other.”
She
described that even though on the outside it looked like everything was okay,
they both had been harboring some grouchy sentiment toward one another because
they could no longer share a bed.
This
took the predictable toll on their sex life, which added even more anxiety. She
said, “Two kids, 4 sports, school, church, volunteer activities, work…we never
had any opportunities to be alone in a bed together.”
And
so the distance progressed, worsened, and stole away more and more of what they
had spent 16 years building.
So
after about 3 years of this, she discovered he had been having an email
relationship with a colleague at work…that wasn’t of a working nature.
To
this other woman, he had apparently been lamenting the demise of his physical
relationship and seeking solace in this woman’s online companionship.
Once
discovered, Thea immediately threatened to file for divorce, but instead got
them both into counselling. This turned out to be the changing point of the
whole toxic dynamic that had been playing itself out over the past couple of
years.
It
took a therapist to tell them what they already knew…that they still loved each
other and had a lot of wonderful years left in their marriage. They just needed
to regularly spend time alone in an intimate setting, which, for most people
means a bed.
Even
if there wasn’t to be any sex, they knew they had to find a way to sleep
together again and start giving each other the critical marital elements of
affection, closeness, touch and trust.
But
to do this, two very critical issues needed to be corrected- her snoring and
his RLS.
They
have just started the work required to overcome these sleep problems, but are
apparently at least sleeping in the same room again.
So
the answer to the question at the beginning is no…snoring doesn’t cause
divorce. People cause it. But it can be a catalyst to the unraveling of a
relationship if left untreated.
Watch
this Video - Exercises for Sleep Apnea, Snoring,Sinus Pressure & more. Addressing the nose, throat and tongue
If
you or someone you know has a problem with snoring or insomnia related
issues, see my guides to treating these conditions the natural way.
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only disruptive to our partners, but it poses health risks as well, especially
for people who suffer from sleep apnea.
This all-natural program will get you to shake
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