Personal

Alex Suarez

Born in 1967

Swiss citizen with Spanish roots

married, 2 children

Founder of the Asate Medical Didge Therapy

I was one of the “battle snorers” who could count on my wife’s acceptance with my nightly sounds for 15 years. But when she couldn’t hear any breathing sounds one night she became afraid. She was afraid and shook me so hard until I began breathing again. With the effective urging of my wife, I was examined in the sleep laboratory of the Zurich Höhenklinik Wald. The diagnosis was sleep apnea!
The thought of having to sleep every night for the rest of my life with a CPAP device was abhorrent. The mask also caused a rash and the sounds of the device disturbed me and my wife. I was convinced that there had to be another way to treat this illness.
Through my work as a trainer for physical work, I observed that when playing the didgeridoo the throat was very active. So I asked a didgeridoo player who explained me that he has no effects, he was also snorer. That was the impuls for me to develop the Asate Medical Didge Therapy technique, a harder work out for the snoring and apnea situation.
After consulting my doctor, Dr. O. Brändli of the Zurich Höhenklinik Wald, I did an experiment on myself for a few months. Daily, I played the Plexiglas instrument for 20 to 30 minutes with the attempt to heal using the breath and the Asate technique which I had developed. From then on, my wife heard, instead of the wood sawing snoring, only the relaxing hum of the instrument.
To the astonishment of the doctors, after the second “test sleeping”  the failures also had completely disappeared. My sleep was completely normal!
For me it was and is a concern to offer many of those affected the possibility to learn the Asate playing technique which I have developed with the medical instrument in order to also be able to have the same positive experiences as I.