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Sleep Apnea is understood to be strongly correlated with obesity- the more extra weight a person is carrying, the more likely it is that they will suffer from the narrowing of the breathing pathways like the nose and throat. this then makes a person more prone to the closure of these pathways during sleep which [...]
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Here’s some strange news- a recent scientific study has suggested that the elderly may actually benefit if they develop Sleep Apnea.
This is the claim of Peretz Lavie, a world-renowned expert on sleep and sleep disorders. He’s got a list of qualifications and publications on the subject as long as your arm, and he’s also president [...]
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Here’s another treatment for Sleep Apnea which looks like it could bring sufferers some much-needed relief, and be an improvement on the CPAP (Continuous Postive Airway Pressure) machine that is still the standard treatment for this condition. There’s just one catch- would you fancy getting a series of electric shocks to the throat throughout the [...]
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More and more evidence is emerging that sleep deprivation and sleep apnea is having a massive effect on the way that people live their lives. America’s National Sleep Foundation recently carried out a study on American couples, and found that almost a quarter of their respondents had such a problem with sleep deprivation that it [...]
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Let me tell you a story about sleep deprivation and truckers; A few years ago, I worked for a Telecoms provider in South Wales, and one of my workmates had recently given up working as a trucker. He’d regularly driven from Italy to Wales, sometimes 18-hour journeys or more. He looked like the classic high-risk [...]
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