Welcome to the July issue Wake Up! from the Manhattan Snoring and Sleep Center. This newsletter provides you with information about snoring and sleep apnea to keep you up to date on new research findings, treatment and related health issues. In this issue, we examine a new research study that shows that throat exercises can help ease sleep apnea symptoms. We also look into the link between air pollution, summer heat and sleep apnea. If you have a question or comment about snoring, we’d love to hear from you, and as always welcome your feedback.

For Sleep Apnea Sufferers, Throat Exercises Provide Relief
There is a simple (and free) technique that researchers from Brazil have studied, suggesting that exercising the throat muscles may improve severe obstructive sleep apnea symptoms. These throat exercises, derived from speech therapy, seem to work because they have a marked ability to strengthen and tone the muscles of the throat, even reducing the circumference of a patient’s neck… Read more >>

Snoring: It’s in the Air that You Breathe
Using EPA air pollution data from a number of different American cities, researchers have established the first link between air pollution and both hypopnea (under breathing) and apnea (pauses in breathing) during sleep. Also studied was the affect that increases of temperature play on these sleeping disorders… Read more >>
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