Surprising, Deadly Effects of Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that involves pauses in breathing or insufficiently deep breathing while the sufferer is asleep.

If you snore, you very likely suffer sleep apnea. The most common symptoms are daytime sleepiness and cognitive difficulties.

However now, researchers have also found that it can have deadly consequences.

At the beginning of 2016, a team of six medical scientists from Taipei published a study in the journal Respirology that proved that people with sleep apnea are more likely to develop chronic kidney disease than the rest of the population.

They collected the medical statistics of 43,434 people from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database. 8,600 of them had sleep apnea. They followed these individuals from 2000 to 2010 to record all the new cases of chronic kidney disease.

After excluding some other medical conditions as possible causes, they found that those with sleep apnea were 58 percent more likely than the general population to develop chronic kidney disease.

Sleep apnea has previously been proven to cause several other deadly diseases such as obesity, heart attack, stroke and high blood pressure.

The good news is that you can train your breathing passages to stay open during the night by strengthening and loosening up the throat, jaw and tongue muscles. Learn more and try it out for yourself here…