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OPINION # 1
Hospital Sleep Center Doctor
- Asheville, NC
William Finley, Ph.D
- Mission St. Joseph
Claims made for Chin-Up Strips are valid.
"By keeping the mouth closed, snoring is largely eliminated. Most snorers snore with an open
mouth and only a very few individuals are able to snore loudly with a closed mouth. You can
demonstrate this yourself by attempting to simulate snoring with mouth open and closed.
Snoring has both important medical as well as social consequences if left unmanaged.
Many snorers have what's known as socially unacceptable snoring disturbing their bed
partners every night and if not corrected can lead to one of the bed partners leaving the
bedroom, an action that can have dire consequences on one's marriage.
Medical problems include disrupted sleep, excessive daytime sleepiness to actually
increasing one's risk for heart attack or stroke. There is new published evidence
highlighting the possibility that snoring is not just a correlate of obstructive sleep
apnea, but may actually cause sleep apnea. There are good reasons to attempt to curb
snoring early on.
For those who have sleep apnea, prescribed CPAP therapy is the gold standard for sleep
apnea management. CPAP users in the U.S. number
in the hundreds of thousands. I estimate
50% tend to vent air or mouth breathe instead of nose breathe while sleeping with CPAP. The
Chin-Up Strip, especially the Tan Chin-Up Strip appears to offer a reliable means of helping the CPAP patient
maintain a closed mouth while sleeping with CPAP.
I could go on, but I think the message is clear, Chin-Up Strips appear to be an effective,
noninvasive and inexpensive means for helping one maintain a closed mouth while sleeping
and eliminate snoring and attendant risk factors. Chin-Up Strips also assist CPAP users to maintain a
closed mouth while sleeping so the prescribed positive air pressure does not escape through
their open mouth instead of helping them maintain an open upper airway while they sleep.
At our sleep center we recommend Chin-Up Strips for snorers without sleep apnea and for those who mouth
breathe while sleeping with CPAP. We advise CPAP users to wear the Chin-Up Strip while sleeping with
CPAP. Many sleep centers across the country are also using the Chin-Up Strips as we are doing.
Because snoring and sleep apnea and management of sleep apnea with CPAP is huge in terms of
numbers of individuals affected, I believe the demand for Chin-Up Strips will also be huge as it
becomes more widely known just how effective this simple product is.
I should add I am a supporter of the Chin-Up Strip product because I know what it can do first
hand. My opinions are my own and I do not have a financial interest in The Chin-Up Company
so my opinions are not biased by conflict of interest."
William Finley, Ph.D - Mission St. Joseph Sleep Center.
OPINION # 2
Allen D. Davey, Director,
British Snoring and Sleep Apnea Association
International Snoring and Sleep Apnea Association
"I believe Chin-Up Strip was the best invention introduced in the UK in 2001. Our
clients have so much success with it. I like it too! It's great for CPAP users who
suffer from palatal insufficiency and where the air short circuits up the nose and out the
mouth."
MEDICAL OPINION # 3
05-99 Sleep Medicine for CHEST physician -
Course Handout - Presentation by Aaron Sher, MD
"Many individuals who snore mouth breathe during sleep. Furthermore, the nasal
mucosa, which is by-passed in mouth breathing, may have receptors which respond to airflow
and serve as afferent stimuli for the neural regulatory mechanisms of respiration."
PHARMACIST OPINION # 4
R. L. Rudolph RPh - Pharmacy - Medford, Oregon 5-21-03
"I am a registered pharmacist and have been using your product for the past 4 months in
conjunction with my CPAP machine.
I want to let you know that I have been very impressed
with the results. I was having problems with my mouth falling open during sleep and that
did not allow the CPAP to function properly (air leaking out my mouth and defeating the
purpose of the CPAP).
Your product solved my problem beautifully, after trying several chin
straps over a period of several months."
And finally, look at what osteopath Robert C. Fulford, D.O. has to say in his book Dr. Fulford's Touch of Life about breathing:
"Remember: Always try to breathe through your nostrils and not through your mouth, because air must contact the olfactory nerves to stimulate your brain and put it into its natural rhythm. If you don't breathe through your nose, in a sense you're only half alive."
http://www.westonaprice.org/healthissues/facial-development.html
MOUTH-BREATHING
Let's evaluate the differences in mouth breathers and nose breathers. The consequences of mouth breathing can occur from the moment of birth because all infants are obligate nose breathers. That is the mechanism by which breast feeding and breathing can occur simultaneously. If a baby has obstructed airways, he may turn away from the breast due to lack of air and prefer a bottle, which allows him to consume his food more quickly.
A mouth breather will not be humidifying the air, or slowing it down to allow the proper mixing of NO with it. The lungs will have difficulty providing maximum oxygenation for the body with this dry, unhumidified, unfiltered and, most importantly, NO-lacking air. This constant and chronic condition affects the cardiovascular system and the heart because the smooth muscles that line all of the arteries react to this poorly oxygenated air with a kind of tightness, a kind of permanent tension, which can be very stressful and depleting to the body.
Furthermore it has been clinically shown that blocking NO production in healthy individuals results in moderate hypertension and reduced heart output as well as shortened bleeding times by activation of platelet blood-clotting factors.
Due to the lack of proper oxygenation, the ability to deliver fully oxygenated blood to the cells is also much reduced. Thus mouth breathing has a negative effect on every cell in the body as it deprives them of oxygen. Overall wellness and health requires proper oxygen as every particle of our being requires oxygen. Cancer cells, by the way, are anaerobic by design.
Other manifestations of mouth breathing include snoring and cessation of breathing (also known as sleep apnea), some types of headaches, hypertension without other known clinical causes, bed wetting, chronic ear or sinus infections, TMJ pain, sleep disorders and dark patches under the eyes.
Curr Pharm Des. 2008;14(32):3466-73.
Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in obstructive sleep apnea.
Lavie P, Lavie L.
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) is a highly prevalent breathing disorder in sleep affecting at least 2-4% of the adult population. A large number of studies have demonstrated that OSA is an independent risk factor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Sleep apnea was shown to be associated with hypertension, ischemic heart disease, stroke, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, and cardiovascular mortality. The association of OSA with subclinical signs of cardiovascular morbidity such as endothelial dysfunction and vasculature remodeling on the one hand, and with oxidative stress, activation of inflammatory pathways and increased leukocytes/endothelial cells adhesion on the other, implicate that atherogenesis plays a major role in cardiovascular sequela of OSA. Results demonstrating that effective treatment of the syndrome can abort and even reverse the atherogenic process suggest that OSA should be diagnosed and treated as early as possible in order to prevent cardiovascular sequlea.
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FDA SAID: PLEASE READ!
"Chin-Up Strips alone have not been shown to be
effective in treating sleep apnea, nor in combination with nasal strips."
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