{"id":18300,"date":"2018-06-21T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=18300"},"modified":"2018-06-20T06:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:11:57","slug":"sleep-apnea-reversed-with-this-simple-lifestyle-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2018\/06\/21\/sleep-apnea-reversed-with-this-simple-lifestyle-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Apnea Reversed With This Simple Lifestyle Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Weight_loss_72610235_m-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Sleep Apnea Reversed With This Simple Lifestyle Change\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>If you suffer sleep apnea, do this one thing before anything else. That\u2019s according to a new study from the <em>Flinders University&#8217;s Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This one thing battles one of the main causes of sleep apnea. But this study shows that it also provides a cure for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers recruited 40 overweight adults with a body mass index of 30 or higher, all with moderate to severe sleep apnea and mild daytime sleepiness.<\/p>\n<p>They were then placed on a six-month weight loss program with high protein meal replacement shakes, behavioral support techniques, advice from dieticians and exercise physiologists, and access to support groups.<\/p>\n<p>This is called the Flinders Program, a program that enables people to self-manage their chronic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Their preliminary results show that this weight loss program could drastically reduce the worst drowsiness effects of sleep apnea.<\/p>\n<p>Once the daytime sleepiness left, weight loss obviously becomes easier, because people began having the energy to exercise and reduce their weight even faster.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/?page_id=1764\">But it\u2019s even more effective to just strengthen your breathing passages to stay open day and night \u2013 using the simple throat exercises found here\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you suffer sleep apnea, do this one thing before anything else. That\u2019s according to a new study from the Flinders University&#8217;s Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health. This one thing battles one of the main causes of sleep apnea. But this study shows that it also provides a cure for the disease. The researchers recruited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":18403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,4,48,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-sleep","category-snoring","category-weight-loss"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Weight_loss_72610235_m-2015.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}