A brief YouTube short by Robert Whitfield MD advising people who snore to get evaluated because snoring can reflect a narrow airway or sleep apnea. He describes oral mouth appliances that move the lower jaw forward to open the airway and warns that untreated sleep apnea can cause fatal sleep events and raise long-term brain-health risks such as Alzheimer’s.
Yeah, it's. It's not. If you snore, you should get checked because, you know, my. My wife, like, hey, you snoring? Like, I snore. I'm not heavy. I'm not. Like, what do you mean? So it's just your airway. So my airway is narrow at the back. And so, you know, whether that's, you know, from teeth grinding and grinding down your teeth or anatomically, you just have a narrow airway and you need to wear a little mouth appliance. That's why those things move your lower jaw forward and open your airway. But if you get a sleep test and you have as many episodes of apnea as I was having, that's why people die in their sleep. And that's a leading cause of problems with brain health, like Alzheimer's. Yeah. It puts you at higher risk.
