Sleep Snoring

What makes people snore?

To first understand how exercise can help you to stop snoring; you need to understand what causes snoring. Snoring can be related to a person's specific throat and mouth structures that can restrict airflow. This breathing resistance can cause you to push out the air under more pressure than needed and can cause snoring. The mouth structure, size or shape can also influence a person to snore. The tissue on the back of the top of the mouth can vibrate as air passes through and can cause snoring. This muscle tissue, the soft palate can be large causing a restricted space in the mouth. The tongue itself can cause vibrations that can lead to snoring, if it is not attached secure enough. The mandible bone is where tongue is connected; the tongue could be loosely attached to this bone causing the tongue to vibrate. These vibrations can cause snoring.

Localized exercise to strengthen the mouth jaw throat structure

By strengthening the mouth structure, we can possibly reduce the vibrations that can occur in the mouth that can cause snoring. Focused exercise can reduce obstructions in the mouth area, for easier breathing and less snoring. This is an easy no cost natural way to attack this problem. If this helps you to reduce or eliminate snoring by doing these exercises consistently it possibly can help you to avoid snoring as you get older.

Seven exercises to help with snoring

Listed are some, focused specific exercises have been found useful to strengthen mouth area, to reduce vibrations from the mouth area that can cause snoring.

* For the lower jaw this exercise has you- push out the jaw and hold for five seconds and then relax and repeat this five to ten times daily.
* Jaw open close- hold the closed relaxed jaw with your hand then push the jaw forward and hold the jaw in that position for five seconds then repeat.
* Singing exercises holding a note 3 seconds long 5 times a day. Help you to loosen the mouth area.

The structure of the throat and mouth has numerous muscles and some of these structures, could be a cause of snoring. Listed below are other exercises that can assist in this.

* Woodwind instrument playing, this instrument for example can be a recorder a simple wind instrument. This instrument and others you can buy at a music store or online. Playing a musical instrument can help you to fortify the throat, mouth and soft palate.
* A wind instrument from Australia called a didgeridoo could also help strengthen the mouth and throat muscles so you can breathe clearer.

Through research the didgeridoo was found to help reduce snoring. This would be an easy transition, especially if you have played a wind instrument in the past, to try this solution.

These and other exercises are some of the exercises that are used by singers to strengthen the throat that can possibly reduce snoring.

* Tongue stretching exercises are, stretch out the tongue hold for 2 secs also try to reach the chin and nose area do this exercise 10 times daily.
* Sing vowels A-E-I-O-U this can also help to open up the mouth area.

These exercises should help you to get results in stopping or reducing your snoring.