The American Journal of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine published an article from Professor Richard Schwab’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. The article introduced a study that analyzed the changes of snoring behavior of 67 obese people before and after losing weight, and concluded that losing weight can help reduce snoring, and the reduction of tongue fat is the key to reducing snoring.
The yellow part of the picture is tongue fat, the left is before losing weight, and the right is after losing weight. The reduction of fat makes the tongue look thinner.
Professor Schwab said, The results of this study will guide us to control snoring by losing weight on our tongue in the future. As for how to lose weight on the tongue, Perhaps it is through some diet or some tongue exercise. The function of the tongue itself can only be done by muscles. From an evolutionary point of view, it seems that the tongue fat that makes the tongue fatter and causes snoring should not exist at all. Perhaps starting from this perspective will be of great help to eliminate human snoring in the future.
Snoring, if left unchecked, will bring a series of complications.
If everyone stops snoring in the future, will middle-aged couples have nothing to say in bed?
We clung to snoring, Of course, it’s not that snoring gives the couple [something to say]. Apart from disturbing their partners’ dreams, What is more troublesome about snoring is that it represents an increase in upper airway resistance. Occasional snoring may be caused by temporary reasons such as obstruction of nasal cavity, That’s not dangerous. Persistent snoring may be some factors that lead to persistent airway obstruction. If not corrected, long-term hypopnea will become the beginning of hypertension and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which are called obstructive sleep apnea. Therefore, we should pay attention to those long-term snoring.
Losing weight has always been our first-line therapy to correct snoring. All overweight patients with apnea and sleep apnea, We should strengthen weight loss. Although losing weight alone does not guarantee correcting apnea and sleep apnea, However, it can be greatly reduced. However, the principle of reducing snoring by losing weight is not very clear, and it is also obesity. There will be obvious snoring differences. Then, after losing weight, some people will regain weight quickly, but snoring can be relieved for a long time. All these show that we have not really understood obesity and snoring.
Playing a musical instrument may help your tongue lose weight.
This new study has given us a new idea. The original focus on losing weight on the tongue can solve the snoring problem more efficiently. Then the remaining problem is how to lose weight on the tongue. I don’t know if I can talk more or not. Another way that may be more effective is to play musical instruments. More than a decade ago, studies did find that musicians who play oboe instruments, such as oboe, English tube and bassoon, seldom snore compared with ordinary people. This should be related to the exercise of their tongue when playing.
What should be done is left to Professor Schwab’s team to continue their research. Just hope to find a way to thin your tongue. It is better not to really lose all the fat, which may affect the kissing experience.