You want to cure snoring? Eat less salt!

Can a diet low in salt to help stop snoring? The researchers found that excessive salt intake contributes to the formation of obstructive sleep apnea.

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Researchers at the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre in Brazil have found that a person can cure snoring If it will reduce the amount of salt in the diet. It turns out that this product increases the risk of developing chronic obstructive sleep apnea   sleep, which affects one in 20 adult inhabitant. In this disorder, the soft tissue of the throat are brought together periodically the air passages during sleep, preventing the passage of air. This occurs for only a few seconds, but the time, which is why humans can not breath normally during sleep. A fluctuation of the soft tissues, caused by the passage of air into the lungs and back and creates a distinctive sound of snoring.

Brazilian researchers divided 54 patients with obstructive sleep apnea   into three groups. The first was given diuretics pills (diuretics), the second held a diet low in salt, and the third control group did not even conducted any treatment of snoring . Exactly one week, the scientists decided to compare the results. And diuretics, have lowered the overall diet and salt level in the body of patients. Meanwhile, an excessive amount of salts leads to the accumulation of body fluids. When a person is in the supine position, the fluid rushes to the throat that leads to a narrowing of the air passages and as a consequence, obstructive sleep apnea.

Diuretics cause the kidneys to increase the volume of salts such as potassium, washed out of the body in urine. Furthermore, these drugs generally promote the excretion of excess fluid from the body. (READ MORE)

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