Why do men (and not boys) snore?

Question

Loudly, that is.

Answer 1

There is a perfect answer to your question given by Dr. Neil B. Kavey, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City

The sound you hear when someone is snoring is caused by the vibration of relaxed, floppy tissues that line the upper airway.

Here’s how it works. When you sleep, muscle tone throughout your body decreases. All the muscles in your body relax.

Your upper airway is lined with muscles that keep the airway open. When those muscles relax during sleep, the diameter of the airway decreases and, in some people, this partially blocks the airflow, leading to turbulence.

Instead of air flowing smoothly down the airway into the lungs, it flows with gusts and bursts. As the air travels through the airway, it picks up speed and gets whipped around in all different directions.

As the air bounces around, it hits the relaxed, floppy tissues lining the throat and causes them to vibrate, kind of like a flag in the wind. This is the snoring sound.

People don’t make a snoring sound when they are awake because the muscles in the throat hold the airway open wide enough for a smooth flow of air into the lungs.

WE SNORE MORE AS WE GET OLDER because our muscles become increasingly flaccid with age. Gaining weight can increase snoring because fat deposits accumulate in the tissues of the airway, making them heavier so they fall more into the line of airflow.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Oh, don't kid yourself, some boys snore like chainsaws! It's more common in men because over time the soft tissues in the mouth and respiratory passages lose their tone, sag and partially block the airway. That's why with some people it depends on the position they're lying in if they snore or not.
Also men tend to snore if they have a lot of stress because they don't sleep very deeply. And the apnea issue usually appears after about age 30, I don't know why. Overweight people snore more than those who aren't due to pressure on the vital organs.

Answer 3

HEY HEY
dont all the snoring on us, WHY do you think im up at 3:50 AM - ni tell you what i was dreaming she was snoring and i woke to have my dream come true!!!!