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Re: Tongue Suspension

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Posted by Alamo Joe on September 20, 2000 at 14:13:43:
In Reply to: Re: Tongue Suspension posted by Patrick Richards on September 20, 2000 at 08:36:45:
Patrick:
I have found that I sleep poorer in warm weather. My line of reasoning is as follows:
The blood vessels expand during warm/hot weather to better dissipate the heat and cool off our bodies. This includes the blood vessels in our noses. If the blood vessels expand, they take up more volume and decrease the size of the nasal passages. (They expand both inward and outward, but it is the inward expansion that reduces the size of the holes through which the air flows.) A book on the 'Nose and its environment' states that anthropologists has found that (senior moment) either the nasal or the sinus structure (Forget which, apologies) depends on the climate in which one's ancestors evolved. Why can't the temperature at which 'blood vessel expansion' 'cuts in' also depend on the climate in which our ancestors
evolved?
I think that you and I are near the critical area where any reduction of nasal airway makes a difference.
I don't believe that the medical profession has noted this as yet. I told one physician that I slept poorly in summer and advised him that he should'nt be surprised if the sleep study in the middle of July showed that the surgery didn't do any good. I was right. It completely blew his mind. The surgery did provide some useful improvement.
You do not hit yourself over the head with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop. You know enough to not hit your head with a hammer. Please consider the possibility that sleeping your stomach is a way avoiding sleeping on our back, the sleeping equivalent of "hitting yourself over the head with a hammer'.
Take care and lots of luck (Thank you for the opportunity to expound on these subjects.)
ca Alamo Joe

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