How To Stop Snoring Naturally With These 12 Simple Methods

The biggest cause of snoring is weight. When you get overweight, your muscles and tissues get flabby, even in your throat. The excess tissue causes the blockage in your airway when your throat relaxes at night. The result is snoring.

If you know you are overweight, then don’t try to lose weight. Lose it!

Losing only 10% of your weight can decrease your snoring symptoms or even cure it! I am a great example. When I weighed 215 lbs., my wife started complaining about me snoring. I lost 25 lbs. and now I don’t snore at all she says.

2. Humidify

Your bedroom air may be dry. If you think lack of moisture could be the problem, then getting a humidifier could possibly fix it. Dry air dries out your throat and can cause snoring. A humidifier will keep your airway passages moist and reduce friction.

3. Raise Your Head

The best way to raise your head is by lifting the head of your bed 2-4 inches. If you simply add a pillow, you may not be able to sleep as well and you could even make snoring worse with the pillow making your neck bend.

By raising your head, you can reduce the works of gravity on your throat and tongue which can cause blockage in your airway.

4. Don’t sleep on your back

Again, similar to the “raising your head” fix we just mentioned, sleeping on your back and gravity on your throat tissues and tongue do not mix well. When you sleep on your back, your tongue tends to fall back and your tissue collapses into the airway.

If you have to sleep on your back, then trying raising your head mentioned above. To make yourself not turn to your back during sleep, try putting a tennis ball in the back pocket of your pajamas or sewing a pocket onto a t-shirt in the middle of the back section. You may think that is a dumb fix, but it works wonders in the night when you don’t consciously know what you are doing.

5. Allergies: keep your house clean

This doesn’t need much explaining and is much easier said than done for many people. Keep your house clean, especially your bedroom.

Dust and allergens in your house accumulate over time and can cause your nose to get stuffy which then causes you to snore. If you go to sleep every night with the feeling of “I just can’t breathe”, then this could apply to you.

6. Say NO to alcohol