Obstructive sleep apnea is a disorder characterized by snoring, labored breathing and repetitive obstructed pauses or gasps in a person's breathing during sleep. The obstructed pauses result from complete obstruction or blockage of the airway and may be associated with decreases in oxygen levels.
There are many causes of snoring:
-Nasal obstruction (structural)
-Obstruction coming from the throat and the back of the mouth (structural)
-Smoking not only leads to relaxation of the throat muscles but it also will lead to congestion of the nose increasing the air passage obstruction.
-Drinking alcohol near the time you goes to bed will lead to decrease in the muscle tone and loss of the air passage patency.
-Some medication like sedatives will inhibit the brain centers and let you fall into deep sleep with less muscle tone so throat relaxation and causes snoring.
-Also some food like milk and diary products if eaten near bed time will work like those medication.
-Men usually snore more than women and their snoring is more severe.
-Obesity.
What does all this have to do with obesity? It was recently discovered that our paranasal sinuses produce a lot of nitric oxide. When nitric oxide is inhaled through the nasal airway, it gets into the lungs and increases the amount of oxygen that gets into the blood that is circulating through the lungs. The clearer the nasal passages, the more nitric oxide will be inhaled into the lung tissue. Hence, the more efficiently the oxygen will be absorbed via the lungs into the body vasculature, which then delivers the oxygen to all body cells.
Obesity often causes sleep apnea and snoring, which indicates a blockage of nasal airways. The nitric oxide delivery to the lungs then is reduced, as is oxygen absorbed through the lungs. Lowered oxygen levels in the body signal that the tissues need more blood to supply the oxygen. The physiological response is to raise the blood pressure to increase blood flow and improve oxygen supplies to tissues. Hence, high blood pressure occurs because nitric oxide isn't getting into the lungs effectively.
Well, snoring not only affects your partner and your family members, it may also affect yourself.
How we wish we and our snoring partners could all sleep like a baby. Some people die in their sleep is not beacuse it is a peaceful way of dieing, there are also young people who died in their sleep, it is because of sleep apnea, whereby nitric oxide is the lowest during sleep and not enough oxygen is going into their heart.
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Resources:
http://sleep.lovetoknow.com/Why_Do_People_Snore
http://www.allaboutstopsnoring.com/snoring-causes.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-do-people-snore
http://www.massagetoday.com/mpacms/mt/article.php?id=13166
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http://www.nutritionaltree.com/reviews/amino-acids/l-arginine/herbalife_niteworks.aspx
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