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Professor Tim Spector, of St Thomas', said there was evidence that people who snore produce more of a hormone called ghrelin which can increase the appetite and may make them overweight.
He believes that one reason why the genes, which disrupt sleep, may have persisted through the ages is because they...
Health Which? Asked the manufactures of eight anti snoring products for evidence to support their claims of easing the bedtime affliction.
The principal researcher Emma Copeland, said “Many products simply did not live up to their claims.”
Health Which? Asked the manufacturers to send research supporting their claims. These were assessed by...
Chronic snoring may impair your golf, researchers have found, after players handicaps improved by three strokes following treatment.
The study involved 12 golfers with severe sleep apnoea, a condition where oxygen flow is deprived during sleep, causing the sufferer to stop breathing for up to 10 seconds at a time....
The Swedes have discovered, at least their scientists have, that stress may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in men... Though not in women.
By stress they meant anxiety, depression and sleepless nights.
Men suffering these problems had more than double the risk of developing type-2 diabetes than those with low...
Up to 58% of the UK populace have at least one bad night’s sleep a week. 18% have insufficient sleep most nights.
Sleep is a fundamental biological need, vital for good physical, mental and emotional health. Its as important as diet and exercise. You need it.
If you need lots of coffee...
An article in the Good Health section of the Daily Mail used this headline.
The feature was written by a female journalist, Hannah Borno, and told of her lifelong problem, snoring, and what she did about it.
There are some 10.4 million snorers of which 4.5 million are women. Seventy percent of...
Millions of people are affected by sleep deprivation (SD), a condition that has now been found can lead to memory loss and learning problems.
Scientists from The University of Pennsylvania reported in Nature, discovered that SD in mice affected a molecular pathway in the hippocampus, a region deep inside the brain...
The effect of snoring on relationships, says Dr Idzikowski in an article in the Mail on Sunday 14 September 2008, is well documented but it does have a more sinister side. While it is now recognoised that sleep apnoea (intermittently stopping breathing while asleep) is associated with increased incidence of...
Snorban® UK have signed a a 3 year contract with the NHS supply chain to provide them their SnorBan® mouthpieces.
