"I don't remember the day. I don't remember the year. But I do recall, with sharp clarity and a degree of fondness, the first time my wife forcefully poked me in the shoulder in the dead of night. I was snoring, and she is a light sleeper. The dog snores too, but he doesn't wake her up. He sleeps on the floor, and his snorts fall under the category of cuteness. This is not where a husband's snoring ranks."
"Explaining the mechanism behind this is easy enough: We have an airway that extends from behind our nose and mouth all the way down to our lungs. Behind that airway running through the neck are muscle, tissue, fat, and ligaments. When we sleep, all of those anatomical parts relax, collapsing the airway. "When we hear the snoring," said William Lu, the medical director at the online sleep clinic Dreem Health, "we are just hearing the flapping of all that tissue together.""
"Figuring out how to stop snoring, on the other hand, is a different matter entirely. As such, snoring remains a conundrum for many people, and not addressing the issue can lead to, let's say, unpleasant consequences. "I've had some patients whose wife or bed partner sleeps in another room. I've had others wear earplugs. I've had others where the neighbors are complaining abou"
Millions of Americans snore regularly. Snoring occurs when muscles, tissue, fat, and ligaments behind the nose and mouth relax during sleep, collapsing the airway so relaxed tissue flaps and produces sound. Snoring can be discovered secondhand by bed partners who poke or wake sleepers. Snoring strains relationships, prompts apologies and coping measures, and can push partners to sleep separately or use earplugs. Stopping snoring is difficult and remains a conundrum; lack of effective treatment can lead to unpleasant social and domestic consequences. Anecdotes illustrate the personal and emotional costs alongside the physiological explanation.
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