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Heart disease, stroke, obesity, and fatigue are well-known symptoms of Sleep Apnea. But now studies show that chronic sleep deprivation—another common symptom—can impact intimacy.
If you call a product the Oxygen Pillow, a lot of people think it is a pillow with oxygen in it. Fair enough! But the oxygen being referred to is actually the oxygen you breathe at night. Here’s how the Oxygen Pillow got its name.
Everyone, turn on your radios! KQED is holding a forum on sleep apnea today. The forum focuses on the correlation between sleep apnea and dementia. A neurologist and sleep specialist from Stanford, the executive director of the [...]
From the time we’re little, we hear about things that go bump in the night. As life goes on, we start to hear things that actually do go bump in the night, or rather, “zzzzzz” or “waaaaaa” in the night. “Noise Canceling Devices for a Good Night’s Sleep” reviews an array of white noise machines [...]
Pop quiz! Time for the question of the day, just to check if you’re awake: Do you know what the acronym UARS stands for? Many people are aware of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, the most prevalent form of sleep disordered breathing, but few know about UARS, or Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome. Doctors who study UARS [...]
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a nighttime breathing disorder characterized by terrifically loud snoring and its correlation to obesity. When we envision the typical apnea sufferer, we generally conjure an image of an overweight, middle- aged man with a red nose and a receding hairline. However, our paunchy friend is not the only one who [...]
Sleep is a mental process as much as it is a physical one. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp, but sometimes we give this connection short shrift. As sleep specialist Dr. Rafael Pelayo says, “Your life is a reflection of how you sleep, and how you sleep is a reflection of your life.” The [...]
