by Christian Goodman | May 2, 2024
Sleep apnea can increase your risk of serious health problems like heart disease and diabetes, in addition to making you feel tired during the day. Traditional approaches to managing sleep apnea have included weight loss, exercise, and, in more severe cases,...
by Christian Goodman | Apr 12, 2024
If you snore loudly, most likely you have underlying sleep apnea—a potentially life-threatening condition. For a long time, being overweight and obese has been considered the #1 cause of sleep apnea. And the solution is therefore to lose weight. Makes sense, right? A...
by Christian Goodman | Mar 3, 2024
Obesity is commonly believed to be one of the strongest predictors of sleep apnea. And losing weight is therefore the answer, right? Not necessarily says a new study published in Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity. There are many ways to define the categories of...
by Christian Goodman | Jan 31, 2024
Sleep apnea is almost always blamed on obesity. But a new study published in Acta Medica demonstrates another body-wide function responsible for sleep apnea. This new finding may completely change how we treat this disease. The researchers conducted a study with...
by Christian Goodman | Jan 6, 2024
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is most often blamed on being overweight and obese. But according to a new study in the journal Healthcare, it’s a little more complicated than that. Because different age groups have different underlying causes of their OSA. Utilizing...
by Christian Goodman | Dec 9, 2023
Sleep apnea is usually blamed on unhealthy lifestyles like being overweight, having high blood pressure and blood sugars, and eating unhealthily. Further, the solution is to lose weight and use a breathing machine while sleeping. However, a new study published in...