Dr. Maxwell Nartey
Professor of Symptometric Science, American School of Symptometry, NFP
World Center for Cell Education and Scientific Enlightenment
Is snoring normal? No, it is not. Why do some people snore, compelling the spouse or roommate to leave the bedroom to sleep in another room? Here is the scientific explanation for snoring and what Symptometry can do about the snoring problem.
What is snoring?
It is the loud sound a person makes when inhaling air through a severely restricted airway. Why does the airway become extremely narrow during sleep?
Physiology of snoring
When a person is awake, their larynx cartilages are upright, but when they are in their subconscious state where melatonin abounds and acetylcholine is reduced to a trickle, many of their larynx (voice box) cartilages lose strength and sag.
Sagging significantly reduces air volume during inhalation, causing the breathing mechanism to use a lot of force to suck in air through the sagged cartilages. As a result, there is a lot of friction causing a lot of vibration.
What are these cartilages? They are:
- The thyroid cartilage. It forms the Adam’s apple because it is the largest. It protects the front of the larynx.
- Cricoid cartilage. It keeps the airway open. Also, it is this cartilage that opens and closes the vocal cords. If it collapses, the person dies in their sleep.
- Epiglottis. It is the flap of cartilage located behind the tongue. When food, a supplement, or liquid is swallowed, the epiglottis folds backward to cover the larynx, preventing food and liquid from entering the larynx, windpipe, or lungs. If the epiglottis cannot fold backward, food or liquid will enter the windpipe, causing a cough. After swallowing, the epiglottis returns to its normal upright position.
- Arythenoid cartilages. They support the back of the vocal folds and are on top of the cricoid cartilage.
- Two corniculate cartilages. They connect with arythenoid cartilages, making them more elastic and flexible.
- Two cuneiform cartilages. They enhance the functions of the larynx.
- Tritiated cartilages or tritiates. They provide support to the entire larynx.
Why do the larynx cartilages sag?
A cartilage is made of collagenous fibers, and fibroblasts produce collagen and elastin. Collagen is made with digested protein reduced to peptides, dipeptides, tripeptides, tetrapeptides, and polypeptides.
Does the person produce enough of the peptidase enzymes to convert digested protein to various peptides? If not, they will run low on peptides. Eventually, their fibroblasts will not have enough peptides to strengthen the collagenous fibers of the above-mentioned cartilages, causing them to sag when there is more melatonin than acetylcholine in the body.
What is the solution?
People who eat protein without producing protein-splitting enzymes will snore sooner or later.
The advice to reverse or prevent snoring is to produce a lot of peptidases not by eating protein but by using particulates to produce the protein-splitting enzymes (carboxypeptidase, protease, pepsin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin) followed by the production of a lot of peptidases. Here is the question.
How can a person who drinks wine, liquor, or beer produce enough digestive enzymes without denaturing (damaging) them? They can’t. Unless they change their lifestyle, there will come a time when they will snore.
Many children snore, not because they consume alcohol (because they don’t) but because they cannot produce enough protein-splitting enzymes.
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