Thursday, December 4, 2014

You're snoring...

Snoring is common for people who are over-weight.

I’ve been there. And then I lost enough weight so it wasn’t a problem anymore.

But I’m there again. And I hate it when my snoring keeps my wife from getting a good night’s sleep.

Take last night, for instance. I’d been sleeping soundly on my left side for almost two hours when my wife woke me to tell me I was snoring.

It didn’t particularly bother me that she woke me up. But it did bother me that I was snoring.

Even though I’m over-weight again (only slightly, I might add), I hardly ever snore when I’m sleeping on my side. So being told I was snoring was a bit upsetting to me. And I didn’t like her proposed solution—“put another pillow under your head.”  I’ve tried that and I get a pain in my neck when I use another pillow.

I was awake enough to observe that one of my nostrils was totally plugged. 

I must tell you—that is not common for me. For the last 12 years, since I began taking daily nutritional supplements, I almost always sleep throughout the night with both nostrils open and clear.   

I’ve come to recognize that for me a plugged nostril at night is almost always a sign of sinus problems. Another sign is a cough. If I’m sleeping on my back and I have to cough, it’s almost always due to a sinus drip in my throat. And if I don’t deal with the sinus drip, it WILL develop into a sore throat.

At the first sign of sinus problems, I take about 1500 mgs of vitamin C. I’ll do it again every two hours as long as the sinus problems persist.

I go through the sinus season without any problems while my friends complain about theirs. Yet they are not interested in what I do. They are more comfortable with their drugs.

So last night I got up and took about 1500 mg of Vitamin C. My left nostril opened up within about 10 minutes and both nostrils were open throughout the rest of the night.

I didn’t get another complaint about my snoring even though I didn’t use an extra pillow.

I take a plant-based form of Vitamin C called Phyto-Cee. I find that it works much better than the more common ascorbic acid form.


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