Sleep apnea shouldn’t keep you up at night.
Sleep plays a critical role in your overall wellness. And, it only takes a few nights for a better every night.
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Home Sleep Study Process
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Sleep Is Your Superpower
When we sleep, our bodies naturally recover — cells are repaired, energy is restored, hormones and proteins are released, nerve cells reorganize, toxic waste is removed — and if we don’t access deeper stages of sleep, many of those much-needed benefits aren’t happening night after night. Proper sleep is your best chance at giving your mind and body its best life.
Why is healthy sleep so important?
Sleep plays a critical role in your overall well being. Our Sleeptopia SleepSmart Experts can help you on your way to more restorative rest in only a few nights by giving you the tools to access critical deep and REM sleep cycles you may have missed out on for years. You’re not only changing how you sleep, but transforming how you feel—boosting your energy levels, immune system, and setting yourself on a healthier path.
Physical Benefits
Stronger Immune System
Your body recovers and repairs itself at night. Helping your body defend itself by fostering great sleep is critical in this ongoing fight.
More Energy
When you get great sleep, you’re ready to tackle whatever the day throws at you. When you get back to your normal energy levels, you feel great.
Fewer Health Risks
With Sleep Apnea, there are very real health risks like Type II diabetes, high cholesterol levels, heart disease and more. Getting great sleep is important!
Mental Benefits
Clarity
When you sleep great, you can think more clearly. Not only does your body repair itself at night, your mind needs that time, too. Give your brain the rest it needs!
Improved Mood
Waking up on the right side of the bed again simply gives you a whole new outlook on life. In the end, a better mood equals a better life. Start living your best life now.
Less Anxiety
Those diagnosed with Sleep Apnea have been shown to be more prone to anxiety disorders and panic attacks. Don’t leave your sleep apnea uncontrolled!
Sleep Apnea impacts more than 936 million people worldwide. Are you one?
Source: Benjafield AV et al, “Estimation of the global prevalence and burden of obstructive sleep apnoea: A literature-based analysis”. Vol 7:8; 687-98. Lancet Respir Med 2019. Statistic based on US findings for adults aged 30-69.
What is Sleep Quality?
Low quality sleep can lead to potentially serious, long term impacts. Sleep occurs in five stages, with each stage getting deeper, leading to REM sleep—the stage where your body recharges and repairs.
Quality sleep maximizes your body’s uninterrupted time in REM. Experts agree that healthy adults should spend at least 25-30% of sleep time in REM. This equates to around 90 minutes for a 7-8 hour period of rest.
What are the types of sleep disorders?
Feeling tired throughout the day? You might have one of the sleep disorders listed below that require treatment to get you back to quality sleep.
Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders
Conditions in which the sleep times are out of alignment. A patient with one of these disorders does not follow the normal sleep times at night.
Shift work, Jet lag, Irregular sleep-wake rhythm, Delayed sleep wake phase, Advanced sleep wake phase, non-24 sleep wake rhythm
Insomnia
There are a variety of sleep disorders that are classified as a form of insomnia. This type of sleep disorder involves the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep.
Insomnia, Short Sleeper, Child insomnia
Hypersomnias (Excessive Sleepiness)
Hypersomnias are a group of sleep disorders that causes a person to be excessively sleepy. People with a hypersomnia may fall asleep at times that are inconvenient or even dangerous, such as at work or while driving.
Insufficient sleep syndrome, Narcolepsy, Long Sleeper, Kleine-Levine syndrome, idiopathic hypersomnia.
Parasomnias (Sleep Events)
Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders that involve unwanted events or experiences that occur while you are falling asleep, sleeping or waking up.
Nightmares, Sleep eating disorder, sleep hallucinations, sleep paralysis, sleep talking, sleep terrors, sleep walking, REM sleep behavior disorder, Exploding head syndrome, Confusional arousals, Bedwetting.
Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders
Sleep disorders that involve difficulty breathing during sleep are classified as sleep-related breathing disorders. Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common disorder of this type, however there are a number of variations of sleep apnea.
Infant sleep apnea, Child sleep apnea, Central sleep apnea, Groaning, Snoring, Obstructive sleep apnea.
Sleep-Related Movement Disorders
This classification of sleep disorders includes conditions that cause movement during or prior to sleep. These disorders can make it difficult to fall asleep or stay asleep, or to get restful sleep.
Bruxism, Sleep leg cramps, Restless legs syndrome, Periodic limb movements, Sleep starts.
Click button above for more in-depth information on sleep disorders from The American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
What is Sleep Apnea?
You don’t get the rest you need when you don’t breathe properly while you sleep. Either your airway is physically blocked, also known as obstructed sleep apnea, or your brain is giving the wrong breathing signals, central sleep apnea.
There are three types of sleep apnea: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), central sleep apnea (CSA), and mixed sleep apnea.
Obstructive sleep apnea accounts for over 80% of sleep apnea diagnoses. Consult your doctor to find out if you have sleep apnea.
Obstructed and Normal Examples
The images below represent normal (left) and obstructed (right) airway during sleep. As you can see in the obstructed example, the flow of air to the lungs is reduced and can lead to many dangerous conditions including hypertension, memory loss, depression, and even heart disease or stroke.
What happens when you have sleep apnea?
Air stops flowing
You stop breathing repeatedly, forcing you to wake up without realizing it.
Brain sends a signal
Your blood pressure goes up as blood oxygen levels drop.
Cycle repeats
You’re prevented from getting the deep, restorative sleep needed to stay healthy
What are the symptoms of sleep apnea?
Snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness, high blood pressure, poor memory and/or concentration, irritability, lack of motivation, morning headaches, weight Gain, and/or depression.
What is the treatment for sleep apnea?
A small bedside device delivers positive airway pressure (PAP) through a mask that you wear during sleep. The air acts as a splint to keep your airway open.
Can Sleep Apnea be Cured?
Simply put, there is, unfortunately, no magical, one-off sleep apnea cure that will instantly get rid of the condition. There are, however, a number of sleep apnea treatment such as CPAP therapy that help eliminate sleep apnea symptoms.
What are the benefits of treatment?
You can expect uninterrupted sleep for you and your bed partner, improved energy levels, mood, as well as decreased risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Treating sleep apnea with a CPAP machine has been proven to help ease common symptoms and improve energy levels, productivity and overall mind-body wellness. It’s important to remember that if left untreated, sleep apnea can lead to other serious health issues.
What type of treatment does Sleeptopia offer?
Sleeptopia offers CPAP, APAP and Bilevel devices. CPAP produces a constant pressure, APAP adjusts pressure breath by breath, and bilevel delivers two pressures—one that is higher for inhalation and one that is lower for exhalation.
Dangers of Sleep Apnea
Snoring and feeling tired is just the beginning. Sleep disordered breathing robs you of quality sleep and a quality of life, were you feel the affects while increasing your risk for several serious health conditions.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about sleep apnea answered
Sleep can be both good and bad for your health, depending on duration and quality.
A good night’s sleep leads to mental sharpness, better mood, improved heart health, greater athletic performance, steadier blood sugar, and other positive health benefits.
On the other side, poor sleep or sleep loss has been linked to memory issues, difficulty concentrating, weakened immunity, high blood pressure, increased accident risk, and other negative health problems.
When you’re sleep deprived, you’re not getting the quality sleep your body needs to function, perform and stay healthy. Unfortunately, people with undiagnosed sleep apnea might not be aware they are sleep deprived. Sleep apnea seriously disrupts the normal sleep pattern, or sleep cycle, which is crucial to rejuvenating the body and the brain. Multiple apneas or disruptions deprive you of the most critical kind of sleep for recharging your batteries — deep and REM sleep. You’ll not only feel tired and groggy during the day, but it can result in dangerous health conditions and seriously compromise your quality of life.
If you have trouble concentrating, are overly sleepy, have unexplained mood changes, or experience slowed thinking, you could be experiencing disrupted sleep. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), when you reach 24 hours without sleep, it will feel like having a blood alcohol content of 0.10. Sleep deprivation impacts people in different ways, but for most, the effects of insufficient sleep set in as soon as the first day of limited sleep. Most people need between 6.5 and 8 hours of sleep. Any less can result in sleep deprivation.
A healthy adult should be sleeping anywhere from around 6.5 to 8 hours per night. Roughly 20% of that should be deep sleep and around 25% should be REM sleep. Each sleep stage supports different functions of the body — REM sleep restores the central nervous system, and deep sleep repairs and restores muscle. Keep in mind, both the quality and the quantity of deep sleep can impact how you feel throughout the day.
According to the CDC, sleep deprivation increases your blood pressure and causes your blood pressure to stay higher for longer. That’s because while you sleep, your blood pressure normally goes down, but disruptions to your sleep rob your body of this benefit. It’s important to deal with disordered sleep as early as possible because high blood pressure is the leading cause of heart disease and stroke.
Five hours of sleep is where you start getting into sleep deprivation. Over time, people who only sleep five hours a night start to experience negative health effects. Studies have shown that sleeping less than six hours a night is correlated to an increased risk of diabetes.
Practicing good sleep hygiene is easier said than done. The best way to start is getting at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day and sleeping in a dark and cool environment — 65°F is ideal. It’s also important to stick to the same bedtime and wake-up time every day, including weekends, to keep your circadian rhythm on track. Screens emit blue light that can overstimulate the brain right before bed, so stop using your phone or TV at least one hour before bedtime so your brain can relax. Night mode can help, but staying screen-free is best.
Lack of sleep can increase blood pressure and raise your risk of diabetes and heart disease. The non-physical effects like excessive tiredness lower your motivation to exercise, which can lead to a higher risk of obesity. Good sleep is so important because it repairs both the mind and body.
There are many — physical (ulcers or obesity), medical (asthma), psychological (anxiety), neurological (brain function causing central sleep apnea), genetic, or simply habit-based (medications, night shift work, etc).
Sleep apnea can come with many health risks if left untreated. The big three are increased blood pressure, a higher risk of diabetes, and a greater risk of heart disease. In addition, you also run a higher likelihood of obesity, depression, anxiety, weakened immune system, and more
Proper sleep health has both short- and long-term benefits. This includes a healthy heart, regulated blood sugar, mental well-being, a strong immune system, less stress and anxiety, a healthy weight, and many more.
The following food and drinks can make sleep apnea worse:
- Meats high in saturated fats — pork, bacon, sausage, burgers.
Alcoholic beverages
Dairy
Bananas
Smoking can make sleep apnea more severe. If you smoke, you are at higher risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea.
It is highly unlikely that breathing disruptions alone will kill you. But untreated sleep apnea can lead to severe health problems, including heart issues, which can cause death.
Stress doesn’t cause sleep apnea, but it may make symptoms worse.
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