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If it has recently come to your attention that you might be snoring at night, or if your own snoring keeps you up at night, there are steps you can take to stop snoring and get a better quality sleep. Everything from losing weight, quitting alcoho;, and changing pillows can serve as good snoring remedies. But before you spend money on new linen, you may want to shift your attention to your diet and the foods that you’re eating—or, in this case, not eating enough of–to ward off snoring.
This is the one food you should have right before bed to stop snoring. It’s tasty and effective at providing a more restful sleep for you and your partner!
Garlic
Many people swear by homeopathic remedies when it comes to reducing the frequency of your snoring and maybe (if you’re lucky) getting rid of it altogether.
Garlic is a decongestant that can help unblock your breathing passageways and reduce the amount of mucus you build up. There’s a good reason why adding plenty of garlic to your chicken soup when you have a cold works wonders — it helps you breathe easier and can boost your immune system to fight off sickness.
If you can stand the taste of it, peeling off a knob or two of garlic and eating it raw before bed can be an excellent way to clear your nasal and throat passageways and combat snoring.
Have A Garlicky Meal For Dinner
Raw garlic isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The next best thing is eating a delicious garlicky dinner like this garlic honey chicken, which requires just five ingredients (in addition to chicken): honey, soy sauce, vinegar, water, and garlic.
Like garlic, honey is another natural cure for snoring. This anti-inflammatory ingredient is a lubricant for your throat, one that calms swelling in your airways and can help you breathe better to prevent snoring.
Why Do We Snore?
Most people will snore on occasion, but snoring affects some sleepers more than others. That all too familiar snoring sound that may be keeping your partner awake at night and disrupting your sleep is caused by your nasal and throat tissue vibrating when the air isn’t able to move about freely while you sleep. The way your tongue is naturally positioned can cause snoring, but so can sinus and nasal issues, a narrow throat, being overweight, drinking alcohol at night, getting older, or a condition like sleep apnea.
If you’ve ruled out some of the more major causes of snoring (and sleep apnea fits into that box) and you’ve stopped smoking, have eliminated alcohol, and have lost weight if you are overweight, there is one food that stands out as a potential helper when it comes to snoring.
Kyolic Aged Garlic Extract ($7.83)
Adding a garlic supplement to your daily diet can also help reduce snoring and it doesn't require whipping up a meal or dealing with bad breath the entire night. This aged garlic supplement uses organic garlic and is odorless and gentle on your gut.
For more tips of having a restful sleep, check out 5 Life-Changing Tricks To Get The Best Sleep Of Your Life Tonight and Here's Why You Should Never Sleep Without Socks On on SHEFinds.com.
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