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Walking helps eliminate snoring

Written by: David Castillo on March 17th, 2011

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Walking has an unlikely benefit, especially for those who have a snoring problem. A sleep researcher from Toronto believes that merely standing up from your seat and walking around can in fact decrease the level of snoring. Toronto Research Institute Sleep Research Laboratory director Douglas Bradley found a link connecting sleep apnea to prolonged sitting activities.

Bradley found that the culprit is a type of fluid that sits in a person’s legs while he or she is sitting down for prolonged hours. When you lie on your bed, the fluid flows to the neck area where it relaxes muscles, causing them to collapse. That is when the air passage shuts off causing breathing to stop suddenly.

His team of researchers made sleep apnea patients wear compressed stockings to reduce flow of fluids from the legs. What they found were interesting results. Bradley explains that walking will keep the fluid of being produced and that “it doesn’t take much effort, and the reward can be fairly big.”

Source: NYPost