Are you tired of having to drag yourself out of bed each morning feeling tired, grumpy and like you could do with another hour or two of shut eye? Then to make matters worse, your sleeping partner gives you that greasy over breakfast because you have snored all night, and then the day is just not looking good. Not a great start.

Well you are not alone, because snoring is a worldwide health issue that affects more than half of all adults and their sleeping partners.

So maybe you do need some help with snoring problems after all! And luckily snoring can now be successfully treated, but unfortunately there’s no such thing as a wonder cure, so stop looking for one right now. In fact if you do ever read about one, put it in the snake oil category along with magic potions to re-grow hair on a bald head.

Instead, whether you snore or not is very much influenced by your daily food and drink choices and the lifestyle that you lead. So the first-line treatment to stop all common snoring should always be to initially monitor and control both your daily food and drink intake and to assess the lifestyle choices that you have made.

For instance, it’s common knowledge that milk can cause upper respiratory tract congestion, which then may exacerbate snoring. But consuming certain specific carbohydrates groups after 3pm, such as potatoes and dried fruit, can also influence whether you snore of not.

The same applies with environmental influences. Before you consider any stop snoring treatment, you need to first assess your sleeping position, the quality of the air that you breathe and even in what mental state you hit the sack in, because these can all cause you to snore.

And this is applicable even more if you suffer from the potentially life threatening snoring complication known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea. It’s most unlikely that dietary and lifestyle changes will cure O.S.A., but they certainly have the power to overcome some of the contributing factors that may be causing or worsening your Sleep Apnea.

So if you feel that you need help with snoring, look at your diet and lifestyle first before you waste time and money on any stop snoring treatments.

Dr Rick Donald is the author of Essential Stop Snoring Secrets. To find out more information about his book, visit