James Nestor

A lot of us get flabbiness in those tissues because we don't chew, we don't chew real food.

Our ancestors were chewing for three to four hours a day.

You could actually tone your airway by chewing real food.

And if you don't want to chew real food, this seems a bit ironic here, me talking on the Zoe podcast, you're already chewing real food.

You can do exercises with your tongue and your mouth that simulate these chewing motions, right?

And they've found that these can be extremely effective for snoring and sleep apnea.

Makes sense if that flabbiness is in the back of your mouth.

if that's toned, it's going to be harder for it to flap around in the wind, right?

It's so real that scientists had to name it some awful confusing name called oral pharyngeal exercises.

So I prefer just to call it

Snoring exercise, mouth exercises, tongue exercises.

It's not just the tongue.

There is a whole new system set up called myofunctional therapy, which they teach kids proper oral posture, how to use their tongues.

They also teach this to adults.

And this can be very effective for snoring.

Just to be clear, if you are extremely obese, your snoring and sleep apnea is likely called by this lateral compression from all of the extra flesh and fat around your neck.

And this is the same thing that affects weightlifters, right?

When they have too many muscles around their necks, they can suffer from sleep apneas.

So the third thing is nasal breathing versus mouth breathing.

And if you are a mouth breather, you are going to be much more apt to suffer from snoring.