New research shows that Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
has great results with Obstructive Sleep Apnea,
which in turn helps with a lot of other illnesses:
http://www.physorg.com/news110190609.html

Here is some more details on CPAP:
http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/snoring/cpap.cfm

Due to applied pressure during short powerful sniffs,
Strelnikova exercise is in fact an "intensive, short-period"
version of CPAP, with added advantages of being a work-out.

So we can expect to have the same benefits as CPAP and more.

Regards,
Evgenij