We can’t say exactly what sleep is. We do know we need it to survive. Sleep restores us. Those who sleep six hours or less a night do not live to as old of an age, as people who sleep seven hours or more. There are many people out there losing precious hours of sleep ever night from their spouse snoring at a loud and annoying level.
There are many side effects from lacking sleep besides having you bleary-eyed, clutching a Starbucks cup and dozing off at afternoon meetings. Lack of sleep also puts us at a higher risk for a variety of major illnesses, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity, showed in recent studies.
Many people say their spouse’s snoring plays the major role in the sleep they lose every night. Bed mates of snorers lose an average of 2.5 hour of sleep per night and wake up as often as 21 times per hour. Being awakened by your partner’s snoring is called spousal arousal syndrome.
Your best bet is to talk with your spouse about the snoring problem. If the problem is not acknowledged, it will not be solved. If snoring is the only cause of your spousal arousal syndrome, then your problem can be solved very easily. Snoring does not have to keep you or your spouse up at night.
We all can stop snoring once and for all with simple exercises that can tone and firm the weak muscles in the throat, which makes us snore. If you are the one snoring and keeping your spouse up, you owe it to them and stop snoring, and let them get the sleep they so much are in need of.
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