The Importance Of Deep Sleep

Name: The Importance Of Deep Sleep
Uploaded: 2024-12-02T17:00:22+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok explaining that significant sleep apnea impairs deep (restorative) sleep. The speaker uses clinical anecdotes: patients…

2 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok explaining that significant sleep apnea impairs deep (restorative) sleep. The speaker uses clinical anecdotes: patients report sleeping a full night (often eight hours) yet experience fragmented, poor-quality sleep with frequent partial awakenings (snoring/choking), leading to daytime tiredness despite long sleep duration.

We see that people with significant sleep apnea, their deep sleep is impaired. That's a restorative part of sleep. And interesting. When I talk to patients that have sleep apnea, even severe sleep apnea, their perception is they're sleeping great. They go to get home from work, they pass out on the couch, start snoring away, choking away, they're out until the morning. They wake up like crap, tired all day, but they know they slept eight hours. They wake up, bam, out. They're not getting quality sleep. They're constantly being partially awakened by this sleep apnea. So they're getting the eight hour sleep and it's poor quality sleep, they're not getting deep sleep.