Day: 10/05/2015

Facebook reaches deal to beam internet to Africa from space .

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Social network’s internet.org initiative reaches deal with French company Eutelsat that will see much of sub-Saharan Africa given internet

The AMOS 6 satellite, which Facebook will use to beam internet to Africa

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Facebook has reached a deal to have free internet beamed to some of the most remote parts of Africa via satellite.

The social network has agreed a partnership with Eutelsat, a French satellite internet operator, to transmit internet connections to offline parts of sub-Saharan Africa from next year.

Through Facebook’s internet.org initiative, the company offers access to a number of services including weather, news, health and Facebook itself, for free. However, most connections at present come through traditional fixed and mobile telecoms networks, which provide spotty coverage especially in sparsely-populated areas.

Starting in the second half of 2016, Facebook and Eutelsat will use capacity on AMOS-6, a satellite from Israeli company Spacecom that is due to launch by the end of this year, to beam internet connections directly to smartphones in parts of West, East and Southern Africa.

Facebook Eutelsat satelliteThe range of the satellite, with dark orange areas showing regions that will be covered  Photo: Eutelsat

It will serve the most populous areas of sub-Saharan Africa, with 14 countries in total receiving the service.

It comes following reports that Facebook had abandoned plans to build its own satellite, which would have cost up to $1 billion (£660 million), earlier this year.

“Facebook’s mission is to connect the world and we believe that satellites will play an important role in addressing the significant barriers that exist in connecting the people of Africa,” said Chris Daniels, the head ofinternet.org.

“We are looking forward to partnering with Eutelsat on this project and investigating new ways to use satellites to connect people in the most remote areas of the world more efficiently.”

“It is our belief that Facebook is improperly defining net neutrality in public statements and building a walled garden in which the world’s poorest people will only be able to access a limited set of insecure websites and services,” a consortium of advocacy groups wrote in May.

Last week, internet.org rebranded its free offering as “Free Basics by Facebook”, a move it said would better distinguish the internet.org project itself from the service itself.

Michel de Rosen, its chief executive, said: “Eutelsat’s strong track record in operating High Throughput Satellite systems will ensure that we can deliver accessible and robust Internet solutions that get more users online and part of the Information Society.”

Facebook is also experimenting with drones to beam internet to remote locations, and is starting to test the technology.

Facebook’s internet.org initiative has come under fire, with critics saying it favours Facebook over rival services and violates the principles of “net neutrality” by providing some services for free.Eutelsat, which provides satellite coverage to much of Europe and Russia, said it would set up a new office in London to lead its African operations, which will be led by former Tiscali boss Laurent Grimaldi.

This device could harvest energy from the air to power our home gadgets.

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Welcome to the future.

A British tech company has come up with a new way of powering wearables and smart home devices: a device called the Freevolt, which can harvest the ambient energy from radio waves and turn it into a small amount of electricity for low-energy gadgets to tap into.

As CNET reports, this level of energy can’t keep a smartphone running, but it could be enough to power that remote sensor on your garden gate. If sensors and beacons have a wireless energy source plus wireless connectivity, it opens up more possibilities for kitting out our homes and gardens with these kind of devices.

“Companies have been researching how to harvest energy from Wi-Fi, cellular, and broadcast networks for many years,” Drayton Technologies CEO and chairman, Lord Drayson, said in a press statement. “But it is difficult, because there is only a small amount of energy to harvest and achieving the right level of rectifying efficiency has been the issue – up until now. For the first time, we have solved the problem of harvesting usable energy from a small radio frequency signal.”

The Freevolt device itself is around the size of a mobile phone, but only the thickness of a credit card, so it can easily be attached to a sensor or smart tag. Drayson Technologies has developed a CleanSpace air pollution sensor (costing around £55 or US$85) as a reference device for the ways Freevolt can be utilised.

The British company says that three specific technologies have helped make the energy harvested by the Freevolt usable: a multi-band antenna to attract energy from a wide spectrum of radio bands; a rectifier component that turns that energy into a current in a highly efficient way; and an optimised power management system that clings on to every last drop of power that’s available.

Eventually, Freevolt devices could be built into buildings and structures if the technology catches on, but it’s early days yet. It’s able to collect energy from Wi-Fi and television signals, plus 2G, 3G, and 4G networks, so it has the potential to be used in any built-up urban area. Further down the line, Drayson wants to build smaller versions of the Freevolt – and that could lead to wearables and smartwatches that never need charging.

“Whether we live in a big city or an increasingly urbanised area in the developing world, radio frequency waves are being generated all around us, at different levels, all the time,” adds Drayson. “Some of this wireless energy goes unused… [but] we’ve figured out a way to make it useful.”

Stress in adolescence prepares rats for future challenges

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Stress in adolescence prepares rats for future challenges
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Rats exposed to frequent physical, social, and predatory stress during adolescence solved problems and foraged more efficiently under high-threat conditions in adulthood compared with rats that developed without stress, according to Penn State researchers. The results may provide insights into how humans respond to adolescent stress.

“Even though the stressed were really run through the gamut, they do not come out with an overall cognitive deficit,” said Lauren Chaby, Ph.D. student in neuroscience and ecology, Penn State. “What they do have is this context-specific performance that’s linked to the environment that they experienced during adolescence.”

Researchers are interested in the effects of maltreatment and adverse environments during human adolescence, but this can be difficult to study. Chaby turned to rats to investigate this question because it is unethical to manipulate in humans and rats have a short lifespan, allowing her to study long-term effects more efficiently. She exposed adolescent rats to a range of unpredictable stressors, including smaller or tilted cages, social isolation or crowding, and predator scents or vocalizations.

“Unpredictable stress can have dramatic and lasting consequences, both for humans and for free-living animals,” said Chaby. “Unpredictability is part of what can make stress so toxic. You don’t have control over your environment, you don’t have control over what’s going to happen next, you’re not able to predict it. So we tried to use a range of stressors so the rats couldn’t predict which stressor was going to come next.”

The researchers then tested adult animals to see if there were lasting effects of stress in adolescence. But Chaby noted that many studies investigating the consequences of stress during early life or adolescence test adult animals under standard conditions. Standard conditions usually reflect a safe environment—little noise or external threats and dim lighting that is preferred by these nocturnal rats.

“So you have this relaxed situation that they’re trying to solve these tasks in,” said Chaby. “But this isn’t really fair, since some of the animals are used to this and some of the animals aren’t. So we wanted to test them in conditions that were consistent with their rearing conditions to see if that impacted their ability to solve tasks.”

Chaby tested the ability of 24 to solve problems while foraging for food under both standard and high-threat conditions—bright light, a taxidermy hawk swooping overhead, and hawk vocalizations. Adult rats then manipulated a variety of novel objects to obtain food rewards. The researchers published their results in a recent issue of Animal Behavior.

Under high-threat conditions, adult rats stressed during adolescence started foraging sooner, visited 20 percent more food patches, and obtained 43 percent more food than a control group of unstressed adult rats. These statistically significant results suggest that growing up in a stressful environment can prepare rats for a stressful, high-predation environment in the future.

Surprisingly, previously stressed rats did not show any costs of this enhanced performance. Under standard conditions, stressed rats took significantly longer —17 percent—to visit the first food patch due to initial wariness, but ultimately ate the same amount of food as unstressed rats who began foraging more quickly.

“And that’s one of my favorite findings, because I always think that’s so cool when you have animals that are doing things in two different ways but are coming to the same performance outcome,” said Chaby.

There may still be a cost of this enhanced performance that occurs over a longer period of time, noted Chaby. For example, they could have a “live-fast die-young strategy.”

Chaby hopes that studies like this can help direct how we study adolescent stress in humans.

“I think that addressing this empirically in a model where we have internal control can really allow us to at least understand what questions we should be asking about ourselves,” said Chaby.

Elon Musk elaborates on his proposal to nuke Mars.

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A few weeks ago, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was likened to a James Bond villain after he announced his idea to nuke Mars on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He said it was the most rapid way to induce climate change on the planet. Now the billionaire has clarified those comments a bit further. He doesn’t want to nuke the surface of Mars; he just wants to nuke the sky over the Martian poles every couple of seconds.

The idea, he said, is to create two tiny pulsing “suns” over the regions. “They’re really above the planet, they’re not on the planet,” Musk said at an event for Solar City in New York City’s Times Square this morning. Every few moments, he wants to send a large fusion bomb over the poles, to create small blinking suns. “A lot of people don’t appreciate that our Sun is a large fusion explosion,” he said.

“A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T APPRECIATE THAT OUR SUN IS A LARGE FUSION EXPLOSION.”

The tiny suns would then warm up the planet and turn any frozen carbon dioxide into gas. CO2 is a potent greenhouse gas, meaning it absorbs and traps heat. The more of the gas that’s in the atmosphere, the warmer the surface of Mars becomes. When asked how difficult this would be to pull off, Musk replied, “Yeah, absolutely, no problem.” The comment was met with nervous laughter by the crowd.

Musk has been very vocal about his goal to colonize Mars. At the SolarCity event, Musk also noted that SpaceX is currently working on plans for their Mars transit vehicle. In January, Musk said he would reveal the company’s plans for reaching the Red Planet later this year.

Talc Poses Under-Recognized Danger to Lungs.

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Talcosis found in Dutch chocolate factory workers

Prolonged occupational exposure to talc, a substance routinely used in food processing, mining, and other manufacturing activities, can significantly damage workers’ lungs, researchers said here.

A study presented at the European Respiratory Society‘s International Congress found evidence of talcosis — a disease caused by talc inhalation and causing progressive lung inflammation and damage, including respiratory failure in some cases — among employees in a Dutch chocolate factory.

 The steroidal anti-inflammatory drug prednisone may help sufferers of talcosis, researchers said.

“Talcosis is a well-known health effect of talc inhalation, [but] the risk was not recognized by the company, since talc is considered to be a harmless food additive and safe overall,” said presenting study author Jos Rooijackers, MD, a pulmonologist from the Netherlands Expertise Centre for Occupational Respiratory Disorders in Utrecht. “As soon as an employee was diagnosed with talcosis caused by occupational exposure, the company became concerned.”

Although most familiar as the main ingredient in baby powder, talc (hydrated magnesium silicate) is also commonly used in food processing, as a carrier for food coloring and other ingredients in chocolate, seasonings, cheese, and salt, for example. Although it is safe for ingestion, it is less so when inhaled. Talc also has uses in the manufacturing of paper, paint, plastic, rubber, and ceramics.

The study was first conceived in 2012, after an employee at the factory was diagnosed with talcosis.

The 111 workers who had the highest exposure were asked to complete a questionnaire on their occupational history and respiratory symptoms. Based on their estimated cumulative exposure, 18 workers were referred for a high-resolution CT scan of the thorax. At least one, and possibly two workers out of the 18, were found to have talcosis. Following the researchers’ work, the company implemented effective control measures aimed at limiting workers’ exposure to talc.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, talc exposure levels varied by job title and function (range for time-weighted average concentration in air 0.05-0.54 mg/m3) and often met or exceeded the Dutch occupational exposure limit of 0.25 mg/m3, with a high of 9 mg/m3.

Researchers then performed high-resolution CT scans of the 18 highest-exposed workers, all of whom had from 8 to 40 years of work experience. In one case, talcosis was confirmed by lung biopsy, while another scan revealed nodules in the lungs.

After the study, the chocolate factory implemented several safety measures aimed at limiting exposure and increasing awareness. Study authors pointed to several potential causes of the low awareness and action around the issue, and called for more study into the inhalation of other industrial products, particularly in the food sector.

“Our research shows that comprehensive surveillance programs, including exposure assessment and structured medical evaluation, are the keystones of prevention and contribute to a safe and healthy workplace,” Rooijackers said. “The health effects of occupational exposure to dust, gases, and vapors are not well recognized by health professionals and neglected by public authorities and employers, reinforced by a conflict of interest, leading to missed diagnoses and a high burden of disease, thus putting employees in danger.”

Major Biological Discovery…Inside the Chernobyl Reactor.

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When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down in 1986, scores of people died, many more became ill with acute radiation sickness, and 135,000 people were evacuated. The blast spread more than 200 times the radioactivity of the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs – succinctly dubbed by the Soviets as the “Zone of Alienation” – was grim. But surprisingly, Chernobyl’s surrounding flora and fauna have flourished remarkably. InWormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl (October 2005, Joseph Henry Press), author Mary Mycio vividly describes an extraordinary – and at times unearthly – new ecosystem that is flourishing in this no-man’s land, where radiation levels are too intense for people to live.

There has been an exciting new biological discovery inside the tomb of the Chernobyl reactor. Like out of some B-grade sci fi movie, a robot sent into the reactor discovered a thick coat of black slime growing on the walls. Since it is highly radioactive in there, scientists didn’t expect to find anything living, let alone thriving. The robot was instructed to obtain samples of the slime, which it did, and upon examination…the slime was even more amazing than was thought at first glance.

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This slime, a collection of several fungi actually, was more than just surviving in a radioactive environment, it was actually using gamma radiation as a food source. Samples of these fungi grew significantly faster when exposed to gamma radiation at 500 times the normal background radiation level. The fungi appear to use melanin, a chemical found in human skin as well, in the same fashion as plants use chlorophyll. That is to say, the melanin molecule gets struck by a gamma ray and its chemistry is altered. This is an amazing discovery, no one had even suspected that something like this was possible.

Aside from its novelty value, this discovery leads to some interesting speculation and potential research. Humans have melanin molecules in their skin cells, does this mean that humans are getting some of their energy from radiation? This also implies there could be organisms living in space where ionizing radiation is plentiful. I’ve always been a big panspermia proponent, the idea that life did not originate on Earth but is actually common in the cosmos. Organisms that can live in space certainly gives more credence to this idea.

Possibly this could also be used to create plants or mushrooms that could grow in space, serving as a food source for space travellers. Maybe these fungi could be modified and used somehow to clean up radiation contaminated environments. There’s quite a few of those, in fact the disposal of radioactive waste is still a huge and unsolved problem. Now the fungi couldn’t actually eat the radioactive isotopes, I’m not saying that, but if they can live in radioactive environments they might be used to somehow scour out or concentrate the radioactive isotopes in such a way as to facilitate their clean up.

Imagine, there’s fallout from a nuclear accident and what do the guys in suits do? They show up, spray mushroom spores over everything, and a few weeks later the mushrooms are harvested and disposed of while the contaminated area is now radiation free. It would certainly be useful, the picture at the top shows the still abandoned town of Priyat, Ukraine. It was built to house the workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and was evacuated within hours of the accident.

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An excellent story about the Chernobyl disaster and Pripyat is at the Ghost Town link. Just be aware that, no, Elana didn’t actually ride her motorcycle through the radiation contaminated zone, that was poetic license on her part. (Motorcycle enthusiasts have motorcycled across Europe hoping to duplicate her tour, only to be told by the guards that that motorcycles are not allowed in the contaminated zone.) The pictures and descriptions are accurate though, some of the images are incredibly poignant. Just think, a whole town where the inhabitants fled without warning, leaving all of their possessions behind.

Fortunately the Chernobyl reactor was an old and unsafe design, only one other reactor in the world was built the same way. It was right here in Berkeley, a research reactor built on campus in the fifties. It was sagely decided to quietly shut it down after Chernobyl; while it couldn’t have had an accident on the scale of Chernobyl, the locals were a little concerned anyhow.

Chernobyl: At site of world’s worst nuclear disaster, the animals have returned.

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In 1986, after a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant released radioactive particles into the air, thousands of people left the area, never to return. Now, researchers have found that the Chernobyl site looks less like a disaster zone and more like a nature preserve, teeming with elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, and wolves.
This photograph shows wild boar in a former village near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

In 1986, after a fire and explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant released radioactive particles into the air, thousands of people left the area, never to return. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 5 have found that the Chernobyl site looks less like a disaster zone and more like a nature preserve, teeming with elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, and wolves.

The findings are a reminder of the resilience of wildlife. They may also hold important lessons for understanding the potential long-term impact of the more recent Fukushima disaster in Japan.

“It’s very likely that wildlife numbers at Chernobyl are much higher than they were before the accident,” says Jim Smith of the University of Portsmouth in the UK. “This doesn’t mean radiation is good for wildlife, just that the effects of human habitation, including hunting, farming, and forestry, are a lot worse.”

Earlier studies in the 4,200 km2 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone showed major radiation effects and pronounced reductions in wildlife populations. The new evidence, based on long-term census data, now shows that mammal populations have bounced back.

The relative abundance of elk, roe deer, red deer, and wild boar within the exclusion zone are now similar to those in four uncontaminated nature reserves in the region, the researchers report. The number of wolves living in and around the Chernobyl site is more than seven times greater than can be found in those nature reserves.

Helicopter survey data also reveal rising trends in the abundance of elk, roe deer, and wild boar from 1 to 10 years after the accident. A dip in the wild boar population at one point was traced to a disease outbreak unrelated to radiation exposure.

“These results demonstrate for the first time that, regardless of potential radiation effects on individual animals, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone supports an abundant mammal community after nearly three decades of chronic radiation exposure,” the researchers conclude. They note that these increases came at a time when elk and wild boar populations were declining in other parts of the former Soviet Union.

“I’ve been working, studying, and taking photos of the wonderful wildlife in the Chernobyl area for over 20 years and am very pleased our work is reaching an international scientific audience,” says Tatiana Deryabina from the Polessye State Radioecological Reserve in Belarus, a few miles from the site of the Chernobyl accident.

“These unique data showing a wide range of animals thriving within miles of a major nuclear accident illustrate the resilience of wildlife populations when freed from the pressures of human habitation,” says Jim Beasley, a study co-author at the University of Georgia.

Beating parasites wins three scientists Nobel prize for medicine

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Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases including malaria and elephantiasis won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday.

Irish-born William Campbell and Japan’s Satoshi Omura won half of the prize for discovering avermectin, a derivative of which has been used to treat hundreds of millions of people with river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis.

China’s Tu Youyou was awarded the other half of the prize for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has slashed malaria deaths and has become the mainstay of fighting the mosquito-borne disease. She is China’s first Nobel laureate in medicine.

 Some 3.4 billion people, most of them living in poor countries, are at risk of contracting the three parasitic diseases.

“These two discoveries have provided humankind with powerful new means to combat these debilitating diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people annually,” the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said.

“The consequences in terms of improved human health and reduced suffering are immeasurable.”

Today, the medicine ivermectin, a derivative of avermectin made by Merck & Co, is used worldwide to fight roundworm parasites, while artemisinin-based drugs from firms including Novartis and Sanofi are the main weapons against malaria.

Omura and Campbell made their breakthrough in fighting parasitic worms, or helminths, after studying compounds from soil bacteria. That led to the discovery of avermectin, which was then further modified into ivermectin.

The treatment is so successful that river blindness and lymphatic filariasis are now on the verge of being eradicated.

Omura, 80, said the real credit for the achievement should go to the ingenuity of the Streptomyces bacteria, whose naturally occurring chemicals were so effective at killing off parasites.

“I really wonder if I deserve this,” he said after learning he had won the prize. “I have done all my work depending on microbes and learning from them, so I think the microbes might almost deserve it more than I do.”

Omura is professor emeritus at Kitasato University in Japan, while Campbell is research fellow emeritus at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

“This was the work of a team of researchers so it is by no means my work, it’s our work,” said Campbell, 85, who learned of his prize in a pre-dawn phone call from Reuters that woke him at his home in North Andover, Massachusetts.

“In the first decade, there were 70 authors that I co-authored papers with. That gives you some idea of the number of people involved,” he said.

TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE

Tu, meanwhile, turned to a traditional Chinese herbal medicine in her hunt for a better malaria treatment, following the declining success of the older drugs chloroquine and quinine.

She found that an extract from the plant Artemisia annua was sometimes effective but the results were inconsistent, so she went back to ancient literature, including a recipe from AD 350, in the search for clues.

This eventually led to the isolation of artemisinin, a new class of anti-malaria drug, which was available in China before it reached the West. Tu, 84, has worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine since 1965.

World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl said the award of a Nobel prize for the discovery was a great tribute to the contribution of Chinese science in fighting malaria.

“We now have drugs that kill these parasites very early in their life-cycle,” said Juleen Zierath, chair of the Nobel Committee. “They not only kill these parasites but they stop these infections from spreading.”

Death rates from malaria have plunged 60 percent in the past 15 years, although the disease still kills around half a million people a year, the vast majority of them babies and young children in the poorest parts of Africa.

The 8 million Swedish crowns ($960,000) medicine prize is the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year. Prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were first awarded in 1901 in accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel.

Last year, the medicine prize went to three scientists who discovered the brain’s inner navigation system.

 

William C. Campbell, a parasitologist and RISE Associate with Drew University, poses near paintings he made of parasites shortly after learning that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine, at his home in North Andover, Massachusetts October 5, 2015.

10 Things to Never Say to Someone With Depression

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Depression is undoubtedly common — 6.7 percent of people 18 and older had at least one depressive episode in 2013, according to the National Institute of Mental Health — and it’s likely you’ll eventually have to deal with a loved one who’s suffering. Trouble is, there’s no playbook to advise you what you should or (worse yet) shouldn’t say to them. One thing is clear, though: If you suspect a loved one is suffering from depression, speak up. “Saying something might not only prompt them to get treatment, it also validates their feelings and makes the person feel less alone, both of which are invaluable to somebody who’s depressed,” says Susan J. Noonan, M.D., M.P.H., board-certified physician consulting with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and author of “Managing Your Depression.” Noonan speaks from experience: She suffered her first bout of depression as a teenager. When talking with your loved one, avoid saying the following 10 things.

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A New Solution That Stops Snoring and Lets You Sleep

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If you’re like most Americans you probably don’t get eight hours sleep each night.

A New Solution That Stops Snoring and Lets You Sleep

But, if you also constantly feel exhausted, experience headaches for no obvious reason or have high blood pressure, you could have a more serious problem.

That’s because these can all be the result of snoring—which is, in turn, the most common symptom of a potentially serious health problem—obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

While most people think of snoring as a minor annoyance, research shows it can be hazardous to your health.  That’s because for over 18 million Americans it’s related to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). People who suffer from OSA repeatedly and unknowingly stop breathing during the night due to a complete or partial obstruction of their airway.  It occurs when the jaw, throat, and tongue muscles relax, blocking the airway used to breathe.  The resulting lack of oxygen can last for a minute or longer, and occur hundreds of times each night.

Thankfully, most people wake when a complete or partial obstruction occurs, but it can leave you feeling completely exhausted.  OSA has also been linked to a host of health problems including:

  • Acid reflux
  • Frequent nighttime urination
  • Memory loss
  • Stroke
  • Depression
  • Diabetes
  • Heart attack

People over 35 are at higher risk.

OSA can be expensive to diagnosis and treat, and is not always covered by insurance.  A sleep clinic will require an overnight visit (up to $5,000).  Doctors then analyze the data and prescribe one of several treatments.  These may require you to wear uncomfortable CPAP devices that force air through your nose and mouth while you sleep to keep your airways open, and may even include painful surgery.

Fortunately, there is now a comfortable, far less costly and invasive treatment option available.  A recent case study published by Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Division of Sleep Medicine in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine concludes that wearing a simple chinstrap while you sleep can be an effective treatment for OSA.

The chin strap, which is now available from a company called MySnoringSolution, works by supporting the lower jaw and tongue, preventing obstruction of the airway.  It’s made from a high-tech, lightweight, and super-comfortable material.  Thousands of people have used the MySnoringSolution chinstrap to help relieve their snoring symptoms, and they report better sleeping, and better health overall because of it.

An effective snoring solution for just $119

The “My Snoring Solution” Chinstrap is available exclusively from the company’s website which is currently offering a limited time “2 for 1” offer.  The product also comes with a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee.

If you want to stop snoring once and for all, without expensive CPAP devices or other intrusive devices, this may be the solution you’ve been waiting for.  The free additional strap is great for travel or as a gift for a fellow sufferer.