Channel 10 ABC in West Palm Beach interviews Dr. Douglas Phillips and shows how he uses oral appliances and the Eccovision Acoustic Pharyngometer to treat sleep apnea patients. www.sleepgs.com

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Sleep is the natural state of bodily rest. When you sleep, your body rests and restores its energy levels. Consistently good sleep helps you cope with stress, solve problems and recover from illness, and helps ensure long-term physical and mental well-being. * Infants require about 16 hours a day *Teenagers need about 9 hours on average * Most adults need 7 to 8 hours a night for the best amount of sleep, although some people may need as few as 5 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day *Women in the first 3 months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual Recommendations You can optimize your health and quality of sleep by: 1) Reversing Damage – Years of stressful living caused damage to your body and mind. To help reverse this, Mystic Sleep releases hundreds of phytonutrients that act at the molecular level to normalize hormone levels, support brain function, alleviate mental duress, remove toxins, restore your immune system, and reinstate healthy sleep cycle. 2) Set a Schedule – Go to bed at a set time each night and get up at the same time each morning. Disrupting this schedule may lead to insomnia. Avoid napping during the day. “Sleeping in” on weekends also makes it harder to wake up early on Monday morning because it re-sets your sleep cycles for a later awakening. 3) Exercise – Try to exercise 20 to 30 minutes a day. Daily exercise often helps people sleep, although a workout soon before bedtime may interfere with sleep. For maximum

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Sleep is the natural state of bodily rest. When you sleep, your body rests and restores its energy levels. Consistently good sleep helps you cope with stress, solve problems and recover from illness, and helps ensure long-term physical and mental well-being. * Infants require about 16 hours a day *Teenagers need about 9 hours on average * Most adults need 7 to 8 hours a night for the best amount of sleep, although some people may need as few as 5 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day *Women in the first 3 months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual Recommendations You can optimize your health and quality of sleep by: 1) Reversing Damage – Years of stressful living caused damage to your body and mind. To help reverse this, Mystic Sleep releases hundreds of phytonutrients that act at the molecular level to normalize hormone levels, support brain function, alleviate mental duress, remove toxins, restore your immune system, and reinstate healthy sleep cycle. 2) Set a Schedule – Go to bed at a set time each night and get up at the same time each morning. Disrupting this schedule may lead to insomnia. Avoid napping during the day. “Sleeping in” on weekends also makes it harder to wake up early on Monday morning because it re-sets your sleep cycles for a later awakening. 3) Exercise – Try to exercise 20 to 30 minutes a day. Daily exercise often helps people sleep, although a workout soon before bedtime may interfere with sleep. For maximum

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Sleep Apnea Pillows Help People Sleep Better



More and more people are suffering from a sleep apnea disorder while most of them are not aware that they are already victims of it. Many sufferers of this disorder use sleep apnea pillows.  

Many unfortunate cases happen when they are sleeping with someone in their bed and these people will wake up in the middle of the night because of obstructive sleep apnea. The good news is there are several treatment options for these people depending on the severity of the disorder, physical structure of the upper airway and some aspects of the person’s medical history. Doctors recommend using apnea pillows because they provide support to the neck the head and help clear the airway, which is often blocked when one is suffering from sleep apnea.    

Apnea pillows help elevate the head thus allowing the full extension of the neck and open the air passageways. Thus, there would be fewer chances of snoring and sleep apnea. By providing a full support for the frame and spinal alignment of the person, the blood circulation will then be improved, morning stiffness prevents and inhibitions of bedsores will be less likely to develop.  

When a person sleeps on their back, they have more tendencies to repress the air passageway and will then snore. With the help of apnea pillows, which are originally designed to encourage side sleep, there would be fewer chances of snoring and difficulty in breathing.    

There are also many other treatment options for a person who suffers from severe sleep apnea and it is always best to consult them with your doctor, as he will know best which will work for your situation.  

There are people that due to the physical structure of their upper airway, they need special attention and treatments. As for normal or common sleeping apnea, apnea pillows will definitely be of great help in providing more comfortable sleep not only to the one with the disorder but also to their partner who suffers more than he does when he snores out loud.

By: Martin Applebaum

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kristina asked:


I have sleep apnea which is well controlled through the use of a CPAP machine, but I was turned down for health insurance by Blue Cross Blue Shield because of it. I recently left a job through which I had health insurance and am now self employed and need to find an individual policy for myself.

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My son is having trouble with his sleeping and I believe it might be sleep apnea. We will get him a sleep study soon but he is struggling to sleep at night and at times even has seizures in his sleep. He is on seizure medication, but I am starting to believe it may be more because of the sleep apnea. Are their any things we can do to help him sleep better at night, before our sleep study. I am not talking about the machines, just some tricks of the trade that may make him sleep better and then my wife and I can sleep better. He is only 4 and has all the signs of sleep apnea. We will not know this though for a little while until the study. Any ideas?

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I have sleep apnea which is well controlled through the use of a CPAP machine, but I was turned down for health insurance by Blue Cross Blue Shield because of it. I recently left a job through which I had health insurance and am now self employed and need to find an individual policy for myself.

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