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Did you know certain foods can make you snore? Some of these natural remedies for snoring help you make healthy decisions that can reduce or eliminate that embarrassing sound escaping from your mouth while you sleep.
As an example, my mother-in-law, who must often shove her husband in the middle of the night to make him roll over and remove his snoring mouth from the proximity of her ear, swears that ice cream makes her husband snore worse at night.
Dairy is thought to contribute to night time snoring because it builds up the phlegm inside your throat. Remember, anything that restricts that flow of air, even a thin layer of additional mucus in your throat before bedtime could be causing your snoring issues.
Really, any foods that cause the inside of your air passages to swell or become thick with phlegm reduces the diameter of your airway and can cause you more difficulty breathing normally at night.
Sometimes, your airway and nasal passages become restricted from nasal conditions, the use of sprays and medicines, and from smoking or drinking.
Other causes include weakened muscles in your respiratory structure or sleeping in the wrong position.
So, what are some natural remedies for snoring?
- Avoid dairy products several hours before going to sleep.
- Sleep on your side, if possible.
- Use a pillow that keeps your chin lifted and away from your neck.
- If you are overweight, additional fat build up around your neck can be compressing your airway when you sleep. Lose weight to relieve snoring (plus all the other health benefits that come with losing weight! I know it’s not easy, but it’s one more good reason to stick with the battle of the bulge.)
- If you smoke, stop.
- Use exercises to strengthen the supporting structure around your throat and airway passages. Vocal exercises can help.
If you need step by step instructions on stop snoring exercises, foods to eat, foods to avoid, and how to find other natural remedies for snoring, see what one man came up with when he finally faced losing his job due to a lack of concentration at work as a result of his snoring problem. He found a number of natural remedies that worked for him so he could get away from using special devices and sprays.
