Why You Should Get a Snoring Cure Part Three

In the book by New York ENT specialist, Steven Y Park, he shows how early snoring creates a vicious cycle that eventually leads to the worst kind of snoring where oxygen is denied to the brain and heart for long periods of time, called Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Thus, you should get a snoring cure as early as possible.

Losing weight and singing to cure snoring

Among the many reasons to cure snoring, is that you must stop snoring if you need to lose excess weight.
When you snore you gain weight:
Diet doctors today tell their patients they must clear their snoring in order to lose weight! The reverse of this is also true: snoring that accompanies obesity, may be cured by losing weight! We see this success in our clinic, and patients have avoided surgery this way. Of course losing weight is not easy. Knowing the relation between snoring and weight gain may assist persons who want to become thin.
Bill S., age 50, had hypertension and was obese. He complained of fatigue. One look at his nose and throat and I immediately knew he was snoring. I asked his wife, “How bad is his snoring?” She threw up her hands in disgust, “It’s terrible. It’s making me sick.”
Bill protested, “But I have been trying to lose weight for years.” I explained that the reason he couldn’t lose weight was because of his snoring, causing him to be fatigued and pushing him to eat for the energy to work all day. Fortunately, when we cleared his postnasal drip with pulsatile nasal irrigation and reduced his swollen throat tissue with pulse wave massage, his snoring improved and he could improve his weight by understanding the process.
One of the worst things about snoring is that next day you feel fatigued. So, you need to take that cookie in order to get through the day. The more cookies, the more fat deposits in the throat and the soft palate gets heavier and falls back and blocks the breathing. The more blockage, the more cookies are needed to wake up during the day.
Singing to cure snoring!
At the Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Studies, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. they studies the effects of singing exercises on snoring. This was published in Complement Ther Med. 2000 Sep;8(3):151-6. Titled: Can singing exercises reduce snoring?
The study showed that performing singing exercises for 20 minutes a day did reduce snoring significantly. Singing exercises can vary from therapist to therapist.
Judy S told me that her husband used to complain about the cost of her singing lessons. But when he noticed that her snoring decreased, he said the cost of the lessons was well worth it, because her snoring had stopped. I explained to her how repeating the singing lessons made her throat muscles stonger, and I encouraged her to continue the exercises.
These are throat exercises I use for my patients that reduce snoring:
Hold the tongue on the hard palate. Say the vowel sounds. Move the tongue around as you do these. Do three minutes on each vowel.
Place the tongue in front of the roof of the mouth. Then slide it all the way to the back of the roof of the mouth.
Pronounce vowels rapidly for 3 minutes.
Press the tongue hard against the hard palate. Press frequently.
Press the tip of the tongue into just behind the incisor teeth while pushing the back of the tongue into the floor of the mouth.
Blow up a balloon by sniffing air in hard through the nose and forcing it out hard against the balloon.
Swallow keeping the tongue on the roof of the mouth.
In summary, any repeated exercise to strengthen the palate and throat muscles has been shown to improve snoring. However the throat exercises alone won’t work unless the nasal congestion, postnasal drainage or sinusitis is cleared. Using the Hydro Pulse™ sinus irrigation to restore nasal function clears the drainage that enlarges throat tissues, particularly the tonsils.
Greg S. came to our office about having more snoring surgery. He had had a uvulopalatopharyngoplasty performed and was disappointed with the results. This is a procedure where the tonsils are removed as well as a part of the uvula and soft palate. When I checked his nose, he showed left maxillary sinus disease, Previously his doctor had recommended nasal sprays that hadn’t worked for him. The CAT scan showed left maxiallary sinusitis, (see illustration) and he was placed on Hydro Pulse Sinus irrigation. His sinus drainage was cultured and the appropriate antibiotic was delivered via the Hydro Pulse irrigation. Once his sinus problem cleared, he no longer had the sinus drainage, his throat tissue and other problems cleared and his snoring condition improved.