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Research is producing some disturbing news about Americans and the condition of severe excessive daytime sleepiness.  It is estimated that 19.5% of American adults suffer from moderate to severe sleepiness during the daytime.  A higher percentage of women are affected than men by this.  We can understand the potential for workplace injuries and driving accidents to increase as people are functioning at less than their full alertness while at work and driving to and from their place of employment.

What is keeping America awake?  There can be specific health issues, such as snoring or sleep apnea.  Sometimes we can choose to become sleep-deprived in an effort to “stay on top of things”.  The advancements in technology, certainly make that an easier possibility as we are able to do our banking or research on the computer 24/7!  Staying up after the children are in bed to catch up on household chores or planning for the next day’s activities, is a common and understandable choice, but at what cost to your own health?  Work can bring us home late or a family who has an activity packed calendar may prevent a regular routine for sleep.  Then we have those people who may go to bed at an early enough time only to toss and turn as they are stressed over work or responsibilities or upcoming events.  For those that are shift-workers, the irregular hours make it hard for the body to know when is the right time to sleep.

Sleepiness is underestimated in its daily life consequences for the general population but it is never a good idea to curtail your sleep.

Getting deep, restorative sleep every night is imperative for your overall well-being. But this can be challenging for myriad reasons. When my wife and I first started sharing a bedroom, I couldn’t believe her ability to saw logs. Honestly, I think I got about six hours of sleep that first week. After visiting a sleep specialist, we found that there are several possible causes of snoring:

~Muscle Vibration: if your tongue and the muscles in your throat and mouth relax too much while you sleep, they can vibrate and create snoring.

~Tonsils and Adenoids: if you haven’t had your tonsils and adenoids removed, they can vibrate as well.

~Weight: excess fat in the throat can vibrate too, so shedding a few excess pounds can curtail snoring.

If you share a bed, or even a house, with someone that snores, it can be extremely disruptive to your night’s sleep. After all, some people are extremely loud snorers, meaning it’s roughly equivalent to trying to sleep through an annoying alarm clock all night long. If you’ve tried ignoring it and that hasn’t worked, advance to ear plugs. If that also doesn’t work, use technology to lessen some of the problem.

One option in this vein is a snore pillow. Specially designed to support the neck and airway, these pillows are very effective at quelling some people from their nightly snoring. The effectiveness of the pillow, of course, depends on the individual, but it’s at least worth a shot. If it doesn’t clear the problem, consider having the snorer take a doctor’s visit to see if the issue isn’t something like sleep apnea or a deviated septum.

The bed requires just one kind of accessory. The bed pillow! Bed pillows usually come in rectangular shapes. But, depending on the quirks of the bed owner, they can be triangular, square, oval or irregularly shaped. There are so many to choose from. Your taste and your needs will dictate your option.

The pillows’ filling is another consideration. Feathers are very commonly used. There are also the foam pillow, cotton thread pillows and foam cuttings pillow. Today there are even hybrid models, such as the snore no more pillow, which is scientifically designed to improve the sleep quality. Whatever your choice, the bed pillow is a necessary bedfellow.

This is for all you wives out there you need a good night’s sleep.  You have made it through the rush of preparation for Christmas - figured out the perfect gifts to buy for everyone, wrapped them beautifully and placed them under the gorgeously decorated Christmas tree,  planned, purchased and prepared the wonderful Christmas dinner, decorated the house just like Martha Stewart, prepared the appetizers and drinks for guests THEN you put away all the trimmings and the tree, company has gone, children are back to school and routine has set back in again and all you really want is SLEEP! 

Each night you have high hopes of reaching that coveted and much needed sleep but alas - you have a snoring husband beside you who decides to cut trees down in the forest in the middle of the night!

I would encourage you to purchase an “after Christmas present” for that dear old husband of yours - a Snore-No-More pillow.  The design of this pillow helps reduce snoring while improving sleeping posture to provide luxurious comfort for a better night’s sleep for both of you!  Airway obstruction is reduced by elevating the chin off the chest therefore snoring is less likely.  The pillow is manufactured with 100% hypo-allergenic premium pillow foam so if there happens to be an allergy sensitive man out there we have you covered!

Go ahead, treat yourself and your husband to a little something that will leave both of you happier and healthier by giving you many restful nights of sound sleep!

My wife has several nicknames for me, and they aren’t all cute and endearing. For instance, she’s dubbed me the Lumber Mill because of all the logs I seem to be sawing all night long. When we first got married, my snoring was slightly annoying but never enough to keep her awake. It has only gotten noisier over the years, and lately I’ve been trying every snoring remedy I can find just to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Last month, my wife had had all she could stand. It was either stop snoring or make myself comfortable on the family Barcalounger. As a last-ditch effort, I ordered a snore-no-more pillow online and within a few days I had returned to a silent state of slumber. My wife can’t stop raving about it, and although I wouldn’t know the difference anyway, it’s comforting to know that I’m not sawing logs quite so loudly anymore.

If you have been the brunt of all the snoring jokes at your office party or a family meal, you may be laughing it off yourself and not realizing that the solution may be right under your nose!

Even though we joke about snoring, the effects of snoring are not so funny.  Can you relate to any one of these?

• lack of sleep for yourself or your partner?
• tiredness throughout the day?
• poor concentration?

These are just the effects we can see and feel but over time the “unseen” effects take their toll on our bodies.

You may be only one small change away from eliminating your snoring problem.  If your snoring is a result of poor posture while you sleep, consider the Snore-No-More pillow for a better night’s sleep.  This pillow has been designed by a doctor to help reduce snoring while improving your sleeping posture to provide luxurious comfort.

Middle aged and elderly men need to be mindful of the newest research on sleep apnea.  Sleep apnea, in its simplest definition, is a disorder which causes loss of breath or shallow breathing while you sleep.  The loss of breath may last only a few seconds or up to a few minutes, anywhere from 5-30 times an hour, three or more nights of the week.

Sleep apnea occurs in approximately one in four men and one in ten women.  Generally those suffering from sleep apnea also have high blood pressure and/or cardiovascular disease.

Sleep apnea is often revealed by a person snoring, having interrupted breathing or disrupted sleep.  The newest research revealed that sleep apnea can close to double the risk of chronic disease and early death in the male gender!  Even a mild sleep apnea can cause a 17% increased death risk compared to those who sleep soundly at night with no breathing problems.

Sleep apnea, is difficult to diagnose in a doctor’s visit and there are no blood tests which can confirm a diagnosis.  You many need to rely on your spouse who may know your sleeping pattern better than you do!  If any of the above symptoms reflect your night’s sleep you may want to do some research into solutions.  The solution may be as easy as a new pillow!

There’s nothing worse than trying to get sleep while the person next to you is snoring away. It’s particularly frustrating because you’re suffering while the other person is blissfully sleeping, completely unaware of how much they’re disrupting your sleep cycle. This is cited as a common problem among couples, but there are certain ways to solve the issue. For one, the non-snorer can always wear earplugs to bed. This will drown out the sound and allow you an uninterrupted night’s sleep.

But if you’re opposed to that for any reason, you can also have the person try a snore no more pillow. Specially designed, this pillow will help the person’s neck align the way it is intended to. This correct alignment stops the snoring in many individuals. If the problem continues, however, and you simply can’t take it anymore, consider consulting a doctor. The snoring might be the sign of something more serious at play such as sleep apnea.

Did you know that as you get older, the tendency is that you will snore more?  For some of you this will raise the alarms if you are presently dealing with someone who snores quite a bit already!  Why is it that some people can lay on a couch or rest on a sofa-chair no matter what the time of day and within no time you have several “trains” running through your house!  Chances are these individuals are not resting well at night so anytime they can sit, they grab a few “zzz’s!

What is preventing them from a good night’s rest?  It may be their sleeping posture.  If they do not have a firm healthy support under their head and neck, it may cause an unnatural position to lay in which contributes to airway obstruction.  Stress pressure and tension can be caused to vessels, nerves, neck muscles and ligaments.   Not only is there improper rest, but tension headaches, muscle spasms, stiff necks, poor circulation and shoulder pain could be resulting.

The Snore-No-More pillow has been designed to help reduce airway obstruction and improve sleeping posture.

Don’t wait until the snoring increases with age, look after those needs today!