I wanted to talk to you about easy man’s snoring solution because I think a lot of people get worked up about the actual solution. They assume that they have to make rather large lifestyle changes if they want to fix this problem. The fact of the matter is that it is exceptionally easy to fix this problem and all it requires you to know is the mechanics that make up the snoring. It is sad to think of all the people that go with their entire lives with this problem and don’t realize that they could cure it the first night they applied this solution. That is why I want to talk to you about the easy man’s snoring solution.

So a lot of people want to understand what is creating this noise. It is obviously a vibration that is occurring in your throat area, but this only happens when you’re asleep. Basically what is happening is that muscles go limp when you’re asleep. Inevitably what happens is that there is a very constricted point in the throat area because of this. There is one specific thing you can do that all present this constriction from occurring; closing your mouth while you sleep.

The real issue was closing your mouth while you’re asleep is that you’re not conscious to do it. Will power doesn’t exist when you’re asleep. Therefore you need a snoring chin strap, which holds your mouth up as you sleep. It just wraps around your chin in the top of your head, forcing your jaw up in an upright position.

NeuroScience, Inc. has launched NeuroSLP, a medical protocol that tests for potential imbalances in the hormones and neurotransmitters that regulate sleep. This protocol enhances a clinician’s ability to make more informed decisions regarding patient care.

The NeuroSLP protocol is a major advance in the way healthcare practitioners approach sleep difficulties. The system combines cutting edge sleep biochemistry information with laboratory testing to help healthcare practitioners pinpoint potential imbalances, and develop more targeted therapeutic regimens for individual patients.

The protocol includes an enhanced non-invasive lab test that measures the key neurotransmitters and hormones in sleep biochemistry. The concentration of melatonin, classically considered the “sleep hormone,” is only one of twelve biomarkers in the profile. Other sleep-influencing hormones and neurotransmitters measured include cortisol, y-amino butyric acid (GABA), and serotonin.

Coupled with an array of sleep-promoting interventions with differing modes of action, clinicians can use the protocol to tailor therapies to patients’ individual biochemical profiles, potentially increasing positive outcomes and reducing unwanted side-effects. Eileen Wright, MD, of Great Smokies Medical Center in Asheville, North Carolina, stated, “Therapies guided by this testing have changed the lives of many individuals in my practice.”

About NeuroScience, Inc:

NeuroScience, Inc., established in 1998, is a research-based medical solutions company committed to improving health through the nervous system by providing novel laboratory assessments in the fields of neurology, endocrinology, and immunology. NeuroScience, Inc.’s, laboratory services through Pharmasan Labs, Inc. have been utilized to assess multiple clinical complaints. NeuroScience, Inc.’s database consists of over 300,000 individual results.

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Change the lighting; improve your health. It’s a strategy researchers from Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and the School of Medicine, the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center (GRECC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center and GE Consumer & Industrial have begun to test in a long-term care facility where daylight, which has proven health benefits, is not readily available.

The researchers removed some standard fluorescent lighting and installed new blue-white lamp prototypes developed by GE scientists at the company’s Nela Park campus.

Research team members hypothesize that periods of blue light, like daylight, can help regulate the sleep-wake rhythm, which is a behavioral pattern linked to the 24-hour biochemical circadian cycle of the hormone melatonin. Depending on the level of the hormone, people are awake or sleepy.

The researchers want to regulate the sleep-wake cycle by regulating the amount of exposure to blue (wakefulness) and yellow (sleepiness) light. By increasing exposure to blue-white light during the day and yellow-white light in the evening, researchers hope to help patients regulate their sleep-wake cycles so that they are more awake during the day and more asleep at night.

Patricia Higgins, associate professor at the School of Nursing and one of the lead investigators, says the project may prove to be especially beneficial for people suffering from dementia.

In a recently conducted pilot study with five male patients, each suffering from dementia and living in a long-term care facility, researchers installed the blue-white lights in an activities room where most residents gathered for meals and daytime activities.

“We wanted to see whether lighting could affect the participants’ sleep-wake rhythms,” says Higgins. “While the group was small, the results show promise in raising activity levels during daytime hours and increasing sleep at nighttime.”

The researchers plan a larger study with residents with dementia at two Northeast Ohio long-term care facilities. The study will include men and women to see if light impacts the genders differently. An unexpected side effect of the lighting is that once adjusted to the blue-white light, most employees reported that they liked the new lighting conditions.

For a number of decades it has been known that light affects how people feel. Those particularly sensitive to changes in light have benefited from a boost in the brightness of light sources. The new lighting used in the test changes the color without overpowering individuals with brightness, according to the researchers.

“Why waste light if you can tune it to the right color and maximize the amount of useful light,” says Mariana Figueiro, assistant professor at Rensselaer and program director at Rensselaer’s Lighting Research Center.”Light is a good stimulus for the circadian system, which regulates your sleep-wake cycles,” says Thomas Hornick, associate director at the GRECC at the Veterans Administration Hospital and associate professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He says it is known that certain drugs do better when given at the appropriate time in the circadian cycle.

As a safe, nonpharmacological intervention, researchers also hope to apply information from the study to changing the lighting in hospitals where patients may have a speedier recovery or improved quality of life with a good night’s rest.

“We’re innovators at heart,” says Mark Duffy, engineering and technology systems manager, GE Consumer & Industrial. “Our goal entering this collaboration was to apply the passion and inventiveness, which we bring to every customer need or application, to a project that has implications for society at large. We’re proud to be part of this effort.”

If changing the lighting works to improve health, the researchers plan to take what would be a natural next step: trying to influence public policy to include new lighting standards for healthcare facilities.

Source:
Susan Griffith

Case Western Reserve University