Snoring is a widespread sleep phenomenon, which most people currently consider commonplace and even see snoring as a sign of a good night’s sleep. In fact, serious snoring is the enemy of health, because snoring makes sleep breathing repeatedly suspended, causing serious lack of oxygen to the brain and blood, etc. Medically, snoring is called sleep apnea syndrome. This episode introduces the causes of snoring, treatment methods and other aspects. In fact, a series of measures such as strengthening exercise, developing good habits, quitting smoking and drinking, controlling weight and adopting a right-side sleeping position can help prevent snoring. Snoring (medical term for snoring, snoring, sleep apnea syndrome) is a widespread sleep phenomenon, which is currently considered commonplace by most people and not taken seriously, while others see snoring as a sign of a good night’s sleep. In fact, snoring is the enemy of health, due to snoring makes sleep breathing repeatedly suspended, resulting in serious lack of oxygen to the brain, blood, the formation of hypoxemia, and induced hypertension, cerebral heart disease, heart rate disorders, myocardial infarction, angina pectoris. Nocturnal apnea of more than 120 seconds is prone to sudden death in the early morning. Snoring occurs when air passes poorly through the airway, or when soft tissues or muscles in the airway vibrate. When you enter deep sleep, the muscle groups in the tongue, throat and root of the mouth (soft palate) relax. This muscle relaxation causes the tissues in the throat to sag. When a person breathes, the sagging tissue narrows the airway and vibrates or flutters, making a snoring sound. The narrower your airway, the greater this vibration will be, and the louder your snoring will be. There are many reasons as to why you snore. Age may be a factor. The older you get, the weaker your throat muscles become. Loose throat muscles can cause the surrounding tissues to sag and vibrate. If you are overweight, the tissues in the throat will be looser and will tend to vibrate more when you breathe. A low, thick soft palate, or enlarged tonsils or adenoids (the spongy tissue located between the back of the nose and the throat), can narrow the airway. A longer than normal uvula (triangular tissue that hangs over the soft palate) can restrict the airway and increase vibration during breathing. Nasal obstruction (distortion of the septum in the middle of the nose) due to an allergic reaction or septal deviation can restrict the airway through the nose. You will be forced to breathe through your mouth, which has more flaccid tissue. Alcohol and certain medications, such as sedatives, can affect your central nervous system, causing extreme muscle relaxation, including the muscles of the throat. As you sleep on your back, your tongue falls back and presses into your throat, thus narrowing the airway and partially blocking airflow. In the international snoring symposium held in Beijing in April 1994, experts and scholars from various countries defined snoring as “sleep apnea syndrome”, which is a disease, a syndrome, and related to 27 kinds of diseases. How is it defined? Every pause of 10 seconds or more is an apnea. Sleep apnea syndrome is defined as having more than 5 pauses of more than 10 seconds in one hour of sleep, or 30 pauses of more than 10 seconds in 7 hours of sleep. It is extremely harmful to the human body, and 1/3 of a person’s life is spent in sleep. Normal people breathe evenly during sleep, and oxygen intake meets the needs of all parts of the body. While 7 hours of sleep every night, apnea is 300-400 seconds in the state of oxygen-free inhalation, blood oxygen concentration is lower than normal, so that night after night, year after year, fragmented sleep, so that oxygen intake is significantly reduced, the important parts of the body ischemia and hypoxia, inducing a variety of serious diseases, if the brain cells tissue sustained hypoxia 4-6 minutes will cause irreversible death of brain cells of patients Cerebrovascular accidents occur at night during sleep, and recent studies have shown that snoring and apnea is an independent cause of cerebrovascular disease and is one of the main causes of its onset. The mortality rate of snoring increases sharply at night, untreated snoring, apnea greater than 15 times per hour, 8-year history of snoring, some wives who sleep 1-2 hours less per night due to their husbands snoring, or women who wake up from snoring due to their husbands’ snoring and suffer from neurological weakness (there is no way to prove the marriage breakup due to snoring). It is clear that snoring is not a normal phenomenon but a serious disease, and is a source of evil that induces other diseases. Snoring in bed is a common phenomenon in everyday life. Most people know that snoring can affect the rest of others, and it can also be a red flag for sleep apnea syndrome, which can cause many health hazards.