Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Hidden Dangers of Sleep Apnea

23 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker/creator) discusses underdiagnosis of sleep apnea, notes that even mild cases matter, and relates a personal home sleep analysis: his oxygen saturation dipped to about 91–92% and he recorded four sleep events/hour (AHI). He reports that after beginning treatment in his early 40s he began dreaming regularly, suggesting treatment altered his sleep architecture.

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About 91–92%.

Four sleep events per hour (AHI ≈ 4).

Apnea–hypopnea index.

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The big picture about mouth taping is sleep apnea is huge. It's something that's underdiagnosed. Even mild sleep apnea. I routinely do sleep analysis on patients at home, and they'll have their mind. My oxygen, you know, mine personally dropped to like 91, 92%. I had four sleep events an hour. It's called an AHI, or apnea hypopnea index, which is not considered sleep. That means mild, whatever. And as soon as I started treating it, I started to dream. I had not dreamt up to that point in time at all my life. And I started doing this early 40s, so I had sleeping issues probably for decades and started treating it. And now I dream pretty much every night.