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Why Men Feel the Shift in One Way — and Women in Another
Men often notice the downstream stuff first: snoring that gets worse, waking up with a throat like sandpaper, or dragging through the morning because the airway kept collapsing during sleep.
That pattern matters because mouth dryness on waking can point to mouth breathing or sleep apnea, where the airway narrows and the body spends the night fighting for air. The mouth dries out like a riverbed after the dam gets blocked.
Women, especially in midlife and beyond,
