When Is Snoring A Sign Of A Serious Health Issue?

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🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When is snoring just annoying or the sign of a bigger health issue? Life Kit's Allison Aubrey and Maddie Sofia, host of NPR's new daily science podcast, "Short Wave" get answers from a doctor, as well as some tips to achieve a snoreless sleep.

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0:00.0	Hey there, life kit listeners. I'm Alice Naubery, a host of some of life kits' health episodes,
0:04.9	including ones about sleep. I have a special guest with me today, Maddie Sofaiop,
0:09.4	the host of NPR's new daily science podcast, Shortwave. Hey. So I hear you have a problem that you
0:15.1	need some help with. Yeah, I'm a little concerned about some things and I wanted to talk to you about it.
0:20.0	Okay, tell me more. So my partner Natalie, you know her. Yeah, she's been snoring. Okay. And not
0:26.3	in like the normal way. More like there's something inside her and it's trying to come out.
0:32.1	More like, yes, indeed. You've been reporting on this. So can you help me out please?
0:37.9	Okay, there's actually a way to distinguish kind of normal snoring. Snoring that isn't a sign
0:43.4	of anything bad, right? Accepted annoying you. From the kind of snoring that is a risk factor for
0:49.4	something that's really bad, obstructive sleep apnea. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to
0:55.5	go home and I want you to tape her tonight. Now after you make that recording, bring it back to me
1:02.1	and we're going to listen to it. She is going to love this. Okay, I can do that.
1:08.6	Today a short bonus episode with NPR Shortwave, when it snoring normal and when is it something
1:14.3	more than that? And we'll find out which one Natalie's got going on. We'll call a doctor to figure
1:19.4	all that out. Okay, Maddie, you're supposed to go home and record Natalie snoring. How did it go?
1:30.6	What happened? Well, yeah, I mean, I did my homework. I can just tell you that she was not jazzed
1:36.4	that I'm talking about her snoring problem in such a public venue. I wonder why? It snoring just
1:43.2	isn't something that people talk about and it's something that I have zero control over. It just
1:50.1	happens. And that's, you know, not super ladylike. You know, I completely get that. I mean, snoring is
1:58.6	not sexy. It can be embarrassing because it is something you can't control, as Natalie says.
2:04.4	You don't know you're doing it until you get that kick in the middle of night from your burner.
2:09.2	Am I the first person who's told you that you snore? No, I had heard rumors previously.
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