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Sleep apnea is caused by obesity, right?<\/p>\nSleep apnea is caused by obesity, right?<\/p>\n
Only sometimes says a new study in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery<\/em>\u2026 often, you\u2019re just missing one common vitamin.<\/p>\n And if body weight plays a role in your sleep apnea, lacking this vitamin makes it much worse.<\/p>\n So before torturing yourself with a CPAP machine, maybe check out if you\u2019re indeed missing this vitamin (37% are). It\u2019s dirt cheap and available everywhere.<\/p>\n Researchers studied 72 children with severe sleep apnea, preparing for surgery to remove their tonsils and adenoids. While these kids were younger, the severity of their condition made them a perfect group to study the impact of factors beyond obesity.<\/p>\n Lower vitamin D levels were linked to higher AHI scores (a measure of how often breathing is interrupted during sleep). Every one-unit drop in vitamin D levels caused a 0.7-point rise in AHI scores.<\/p>\n Vitamin D influences the severity of sleep apnea through its effects on immune function, tissue growth, and inflammation.<\/p>\n What about adults?<\/em><\/p>\n A comprehensive review in the Journal of Sleep Research<\/em> confirmed the link between vitamin D deficiency and sleep apnea for all ages. It showed that low levels of this vitamin increase your risk of developing sleep apnea and make it more severe.<\/p>\n Now, if vitamin D is not enough to heal your sleep apnea (and it probably isn\u2019t), try our simple throat exercises. Hundreds of readers vouch for them as the best thing they did to treat their snoring and sleep apnea.<\/p>\n