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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Today we're going to talk about how to get your spouse to stop snoring.

There's nothing worse for your quality of sleep than having your spouse snore all night long.

So let's start with the actual cause of snoring.

Now there's a lot of things you can do to cope with this problem if it's sleep apnea,

like the CPAP machine, which is a device which hooks on your head and it will give you

forced air so you can breathe. The problem is it dries out your mouth. It's uncomfortable

to have this thing over your head. And there's also certain devices that you can breathe. The problem is it dries out your mouth. It's uncomfortable to have this

thing over your head. And there's also certain devices that you can put in your mouth to cause the

jaw to go forward to create more of an opening so you can breathe. But sooner or later, you want to get to the

root cause. But first, let's talk about what is snoring? Snoring is a loss of tone in the structures

in the back of the throat that cause a vibrational sound. And this could be coming from the fact

that your neck is just too large. You have too much fat in your neck and that's obstructing the air.

And this obstruction is called obstructive sleep apnea. It can also

come from the abdomen. Let's say, for example, you have visceral fat, you have a large belly,

and all that extra fat is putting pressure up into your diaphragm, especially when you're lying down.

Having constant pressure in your diaphragm is going to limit the amount down, having constant pressure in your diaphragm is going

to limit the amount of oxygen that you have in your lung. And there's a big correlation between

people who snore and they're overweight. But on the other hand, we have something functional.

In other words, your nervous system controls the tone of the structures in the back of the throat. And I'm talking about the autonomic nervous system controls the tone of the structures in the back of the throat.

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