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What is sleep apnea?

4 Nov 2022 · 0 min

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A short explanatory transcript from a YouTube video describing sleep apnea: the speaker explains that during sleep apnea people snore, experience interruptions in breathing that reduce oxygen delivery to the brain (hypoxia), and briefly wake themselves. The clip focuses on the mechanism (airway/trachea obstruction), resulting low oxygen, and awakening.

Sleep apnea is a symptom where when you go to sleep, you snore a lot. And then when you're sleeping, you go. And then you wake yourself up. So what happened is that your trachea or the tube where you get oxygen that goes to your lung. When you have sleep apnea, you're not getting enough oxygen to your brain, and you're getting a little bit of what's called hypoxia, low oxygen, and you wake yourself up.