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Natural Treatments for Sleep Apnea Are as Simple as Breathing Easily
Sleep apnea can be a terrifying condition from which to suffer, not usually if you are the one who suffers from it, but for a family member who lives with and witnesses it. Usually, it is accompanied by snoring, light sleeping, or possibly other restless bodily movements. When it occurs, you simply stop breathing. Your spouse may suddenly notice you are no longer snoring and become alarmed. It may last a few seconds, or even as long as two minutes. Your body forces you, in effect, to hold your breath while you are asleep.
Sleep apnea is one way your body tells you that there is something physiological occurring with your breathing, and there are numerous, sometimes extremely impractical and even painful medical treatments for it. It may be beneficial, however, to listen to what your body is saying rather than merely try to treat the symptoms. Sleep apnea is basically your body telling you that it is getting too much oxygen (that is also the reason you are snoring – mucus has developed in excess in your nostrils to try to slow down the oxygen flow). Oxygen is a good element and is necessary for organ vitality. But too much of anything isn’t good for anyone, and in the case of taking in too much oxygen, also known as hyperventilation, too much means that the carbon dioxide you don’t exhale isn’t allowed to do its job. While the process of using oxygen in your cells produces carbon dioxide that we exhale, some of it remains in our blood in order to regulate how much oxygen is used in our cells. When oxygen floods the system, the carbon dioxide that remains in the blood is overwhelmed, and not able to regulate effectively. For some people, one way the body compensates for hyperventilation is to stop ventilation altogether – it stops breathing for a few seconds or more. But that is not a healthy way to deal with the problem.
A natural treatment for sleep apnea involves learning how to prevent hyperventilation and to breathe more slowly, thereby allowing the remaining carbon dioxide in your blood to do its job of regulating oxygen use efficiently and effectively. You can teach your body how to normalize breathing through various techniques, so that your body begins to do this automatically. Buteyko practitioners are trained in helping clients learn how to breathe less often and inhale just the right amount of oxygen, and many people have reported not only the disappearance of symptoms such as sleep apnea, but no more snoring as well. Normalizing breathing as a natural treatment for sleep apnea can therefore not only be beneficial to optimum health, but can help improve family relations, as well.
Sleep Apnea Holistic Treatment – Suffering from sleep apnea or snoring? The Buteyko Center offers a free breathing test online and a free Buteyko Health Evaluation report with our recommendations. The test will help you determine whether you hyperventilate or not, and, if so, to what degree, how that may influence the quality of your sleep, as well as recommendations for improvement.
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