This year will be the 10 year anniversary of when I published my first book, Sleep Interrupted, which proposed that many of our chronic health ailments are related to shrinking faces and upper airways. Over the years, my focus has shifted from mainly adults to include children, infants, and even during the prenatal period. If […]
David is a middle-aged friend of mine, who I was sure had severe obstructive sleep apnea. I urged him to get it checked out with a sleep doctor. Tragically, he died shortly afterwards of a heart attack. I know other couples and even an in-law where the men have obvious sleep apnea, but refuse to […]
Here’s a recent interview I did with the folks at FutureTechPodcast. I go over the basic fundamentals of my sleep-breathing paradigm, along with a good explanation for why so many of us are sick and tired.
How accurate is it? This is one of the most common questions I get asked about home sleep studies. In general, both patients as well as sleep doctors think that in-lab studies are much more accurate than home studies. To answer this question, we need to define what “accurate” means. Suzy came to see me […]
Here’s an interesting article written by my colleague, Dr. Howard Stupak, a facial plastic and ENT surgeon. He is one of very few ENT surgeons that appreciates facial form and function as a result of upper airway anatomy.