Every time your breathing stops during the night,
your brain is starved of oxygen for 10, 20, sometimes 30 seconds at a time.
That's called hypoxia.
And it's literally killing your brain cells.
The Harvard Sleep Medicine Center recently published a study
showing that OSA sufferers lose significant gray matter,
in the areas of the brain responsible for memory, decision-making, and emotional regulation.
In simple terms: untreated sleep apnea makes you irresponsible, more forgetful, and emotionally unstable.
That explains why my patient Steven spent two years feeling like he was losing his mind.
Why he'd walk into a room and forget why he was there.
Why he'd snap at his children over nothing.
Why he couldn't focus during important business meetings and nearly lost three major clients.
Why his wife Julia started looking at him like he was a stranger living in their house.
But the brain damage was just the beginning..
Sleep apnea also increases your risk of:
- Heart attack by 30%
- Stroke by 60%
- Type 2 diabetes by 80%
- Depression + anxiety by 300%
Plus, the constant sleep disruption has been proven to absolutely destroy your immune system,
making you sick more often and slowing your recovery from everything from minor cuts to major illnesses.
Steven didn't know any of this when he nearly killed himself falling asleep behind the wheel three months ago.
All he knew was that he felt like he was dying slowly, and his marriage was dying with him.
As his doctor, I watched him spend over $1,400 trying every solution I'd been trained to recommend.
CPAP machines.
Sleep specialists.
Prescription drugs.
But nothing worked.
Until his wife Julia discovered something that seemed too simple to be real…
