Snoring and breathing how they relate
Snoring, what is it?
Snoring, like all sounds, is a result of vibrations which causes air particles to form waves also known as sound waves. An example, when you speak, the vibration of your vocal cords form to create your voice. When your stomach growls your intestines and stomach vibrate, when food and air move past them. Although we are sleeping, air flow may cause tissues in the throat and nose to vibrate this results in snoring. Essentially, turbulent airflow moves tissues causing them to vibrate and snoring is the result.
Snoring, What causes It?
While you breathe, air steadily flows in a stream through your mouth and nose into your lungs and out again. While you are at rest there are very few sounds as the air moves quietly. When you exercise,your breathing picks up as this happens the steam of air also beigins to move faster and thus small amounts of noise can be heard. While you sleep, the back of the throat has a tendence to narrow. In this case the stream of air has not changed but the opening is smaller, the forcing of air through this narrow passage allows the tissue to vibrate. The resulting sound is snoring. People who snore have differing reasons because the narrowing that takes place is caused for various reasons. This norrowing primarly takes place in three regions 1) Nose 2) Throat 3) Mouth.
Anybody is apt to snore. Often people that do not snore regularly report snoring following, illness, consuming alcohol, and even taking certain medications. Studies have estimated that 30 percent of women and 45 percent of men snore regularly. Individuals who do snore are not limited to body types. We often expect men of large size and stout necks as snorers, but small women with tiny necks often snore louder. Generally, it is expected that as people mature and add some bulk snoring will increase.
Regular breathing
The ideal breathing situation while at rest is breathing through your nose. The incoming air is heated, humidified, and filtered by the nose. However, when breathing through your mouth it is nor possible for your body to make changes to the air. The lungs can still use the dryer, colder, dirty air, but you may have realized that this type of air is harder to breathe. The body naturally tries and breathes through the nose.
Your nose is made up of a couple of parallel passages. Inside your nose there are turbinate’s three of them to be exact. These turbinate’s are full of tiny blood vessels that regulate the airflow. If the blood vessels in the turbinate’s increase in size, the turbinate as a whole swells, and the flow of air decreases. If the vessels narrow, the turbinates become smaller and airflow increases. Your nose contains an automatic nasal cycle of eight hours. This cycle automatically changes which passage is doing the breathing.
Your body’s natural breathing cycle is often disrupted and the disruption is the culprit behind snoring. |
