This Sleep Habit Doubles Heart Attack Risk

This Sleep Habit Doubles Heart Attack Risk

by | Oct 31, 2018

You know that eating well, exercising, not smoking and other healthy lifestyles are very important in order to avoid heart attacks and stroke, along with keeping your cholesterol and blood pressure at bay. Now a new study, presented at The European Society of...
Mysterious Sleep Apnea and Gout Connection

Mysterious Sleep Apnea and Gout Connection

by | Oct 27, 2018

Scientists from Keele University, Newcastle University, and Massachusetts General Hospital have just written an article that proposes that sleep apnea may cause gout. Gout is a type of arthritis that involves inflammation, pain, swelling, and redness of the joints. It...
Weird Sleep Apnea and Acid Reflux Connection Uncovered

Weird Sleep Apnea and Acid Reflux Connection Uncovered

by | Sep 18, 2018

Past studies to have found direct connection between gastroesophageal reflux disease (acid reflux), or GERD, and sleep apnea. But which disease is the cause of the other (chicken and the egg) or are they actually both caused by some mysterious third element? That’s...
Strange Sleep Apnea and Overweight Connection

Strange Sleep Apnea and Overweight Connection

by | Sep 4, 2018

People with sleep apnea are often overweight or obese. It is, in fact, often due to the fat buildup around our necks, backs, and chests that press on the airways, making them collapse during the night while you sleep. Scientists from the James Madison University...
How Snoring Ruins Your Skin

How Snoring Ruins Your Skin

by | Aug 9, 2018

As irritating as snoring is, most of us wouldn’t think it had any serious consequences, and if it did, we would not connect it to the cause behind destroying part of your skin. But a new study from Loyola University and a publication in the Journal The Ocular Surface...