with Guest: Dr. Diego R. Mazzotti, Ph.D.
If you snore you want to hear this. Sleep Apnea is the inevitable place you will end up up at if your snoring isn't addressed. By then the damage to your heart may have already begun. Listen and learn.
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Show Notes:
Treating Sleep Apnea With CPAP Therapy is Associated With Lower Risk of Heart Problems
[4:53] Why are leaner people getting sleep apnea now?
- Losing weight is no longer a universal solution to sleep apnea.
[7:40] Snoring is not natural.
- Children who snore have a higher rate of ADHD.
[9:00] 1 billion people of the population have apnea.
[9:30] Alternative therapies to apnea.
[15:25] Study design
- Can using a cpap prevent cardiovascular disease?
- >45000 subjects
- Control group did not have sleep apnea
- One apnea group used cpap less than 4 hours.
- One apnea group used more than 4 hours.
- The use of cpap was associated with lower risk of cardiovascular events and problems.
[23:20] What may be happening in the heart.
[35:00] What are some of the common factors between people who have sleep apnea? Does the gut play a role?
- Apnea could definitely aggravate the gut biome, however, it is unknown as to whether gut dysbiosis could cause apnea at this point.
[44:00] How could the opioid epidemic makes the problem worse?
[47:30] Nasal breathing is still important when using a cpap.
[59:30] Does wearing a cpap weaken the diaphragm muscles?
[1:02:00] What about cpap use for borderline sleep apnea cases?
