This is interesting. If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know that we’ve covered studies that show exercise can help folks with sleep apnea drop extra pounds and sleep better at night. Now a study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh School of Sleep Medicine shows that an exercise program that combines brisk walking and weight training cut the severity of sleep apnea by 25%--which is as much as some kinds of surgery—without the study participants dropping weight.
According to study researcher Dr. Christopher Kline, “The most compelling point of the research was that this 25% reduction was achieved without any reduction in body weight…For a 25% reduction due to weight loss, you actually need to lose about 10% of your body weight.” So…for a 220-pound individual, that would mean losing 22 pounds before achieving the same benefit.
Weight training also improves muscle tone and increases bone density and could help with muscle and joint pain that causes insomnia. And, exercise offers cardiovascular benefits that could counter problems such as high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack, heart failure and arrhythmias.
Pretty cool. To read more, visit WebMD.
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