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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ratski" data-source="post: 2049650" data-attributes="member: 936">No need to apologize. GREAT post. The more I study this stuff, the more intrigued and motivated I become. Your comment that "Sleep apnea may be the cause of more deaths than are thought because they get attributed to something else" is spot on.No one just "dies in their sleep". Recent studies are showing that as many as 25% of all auto accidents are directly related to sleep disorders (sleep apnea). Good Morning America just ran a piece last week about people falling asleep at the wheel. Just for a few seconds in some cases. I had done it. People think, ah just for two or three seconds, that's no big deal. Well when you are traveling at 75 mph, that comes out to 110 feet per second. Go to sleep for just three seconds (1-2-3) and you have traveled from one goal post on a football field to the other ASLEEP.In addition, there seems to be a direct link to weight gain and sleep apnea. For that past several years, everyone has thought "heavy person = sleep apnea" lose the weight and you will lose the sleep apnea. Well, it looks like the reverse may actually be true. Sleep related breathing disorders affect the hormones that control your eating desires. Sleep disorders can actually be the cause of weight gain and not the reverse.Last year at this time, I had no idea how much I didn't know or understand about this stuff. It has only been a few years that the dental field has gotten really involved in this stuff. It is the most exciting thing I have done in dentistry in I don't know how long.Dave</blockquote>

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