Robert Whitfield MD explains how untreated sleep apnea damages your brain and increases risk of fatal events during sleep. Snoring in thin people can signal a narrow airway or teeth grinding. Oral appliances that advance the jaw can help, and consistent bedtimes matter.
So it's incredibly important for me personally, because my brain health and my health. Health overall is incredibly important because I want to see my kids. Kids. I want to, you know, be productive. I still have a lot of people to take care of where we work and a lot of patients.
To take care of. How common is sleep apnea? More common to people who are overweight. You're not overweight. You're super fit.
Yeah, it's. It's not. If you snore, you should get checked because, you know, my. My wife, like, hey, you snoring? Like, snoring. I'm not heavy. I'm not like. What do you mean? So it's just your airway. So my airway is narrow at the back. And so, you know, whether that's, you know, from teeth grinding and grinding down your teeth or anatomically, you just have a narrow airway and you need to wear a little mouth appliance. That's why those things move your lower jaw forward and open your airway. But if you get a sleep test and you have as many episodes of apnea as I was having, that's why people die in their sleep. And that's a leading cause of problems with brain health, like Alzheimer's.
Yeah. It puts you at higher risk.
Yeah.
Crazy. I also find it. I also personally, anecdotally have found, and I know this is backed up, a lot of sleep experts have attested to the value of just setting a consistent bedtime.
Oh, yeah, Yeah.
