Snoring Has Been Linked to Brain Damage
I thought this blog needed a fear mongering post on here, but fear might be a good motivator for you. Fixing this problem is something that can cause a lot of damages with people around you and now it has been linked to causing BRAIN DAMAGE in you.
Australian researches have found a change in the brains biochemistry when someone suffers from snoring and apnea that resembles a similar biochemistry to a person that had a severe stroke. That’s a scary thought isn’t it. A similar biochemistry as a severe stroke. If you don’t know what a stroke is, it’s when there is some sort of blood clot to the brain.
Scary scary stuff. Fixing the problem should definitely be a top priority. Check out some of the solutions I have posted about.
Here is more information from The Age:
Sleep apnoea sufferers who snore may be severely impairing their brain function, Australian researchers have found.
The changes in brain biochemistry linked to obstructive sleep apnoea have been compared to changes evident in people who have “had a severe stroke or who are dying“, researchers at the University of NSW Brain Sciences department have found.
“It used to be thought that apnoeic snoring had absolutely no acute effects on brain function but this is plainly not true,” lead author of the study Professor Caroline Rae said in a statement.
The impairment is thought to be the result of a lack of oxygen reaching the brain during extended pauses in breathing – a common characteristic of severe sleep apnoea.
Researchers studied the brains of 13 men with severe, untreated, obstructive sleep apnoea and found that even a slight lack of oxygen supply to the brain has an effect on function.