Archive for July 27th, 2009

Is there a darwinian reason for snoring?

Monday, July 27th, 2009
cpc26ca asked:


I’m a guy and I know that I can’t freaking get to sleep if I hear my dad snoring. I feel like crazy gluing snorers noses. I mean, how can women sleep when their hubbies snore? Or is it because they are women, that they have some biological mechanism that blocks out snoring, letting them sleep. I wouldn’t think there’s any evolutionary purpose…it would only let other cavemen/predators know where you are, making it easy for them to prey on you.

I, myself, think that snoring is only something that modern man does. I don’t think men in prehistoric times grew to be fat or old enough to snore. Or is it only to do with the throat/windpipe, meaning that totally fit athletes snore as well?

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What might be the causes/effects of snoring?

Monday, July 27th, 2009
Snow White asked:


How far does it go when a person snores? My friend told me, when a kid who snores at his very young age he may have a heart problem. My son is 8 years old now and he snores a lot. At first I got worried but then I thought it’s just a hereditary since my father and even my younger brother were snoring too. How true this can be?

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