If you wish to talk to a sleep apnea specialist who can also test you to see if you or a loved one suffer from it, please visit the website of Gurnee, Illinois dentist Dr. Ira Shapira for an initial consultation.
In many cases, apnea-afflicted patients will wake up between five and ten times an hour. Many times they aren’t aware of this, but their body still suffers the consequences. Deep sleep is invaluable for resting the body and reducing stress. Inhibiting this is dangerous. REM sleep – a deep state of restful, healing sleep – reinvigorates you for the next day. Depriving the body of this affects alertness and concentration, increasing fatigue. Instances like falling asleep while driving can be traced back to sleep apnea.
Lack of Oxygen
Even though apneic sleepers deprive their bodies of oxygen for just a few seconds each time, prolonged incidences of this will compound as time goes on. Oxygen starvation leads to many different types of health problems. For instance, your body secretes therapeutic growth hormones during sleep. Apneic sleep disturbs the flow of these hormones and can hurt many systems they were meant to help, especially the pituitary and hypothalamus systems.
Lack of oxygen over a prolonged period also greatly increases the likelihood of heart attack and stroke.
Other Health Risks of Sleep Apnea
- Hypertension
- Muscle pain
- Reduced metabolism
- Weight gain
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Diabetes
Fortunately for sleep apnea sufferers, a variety of treatment options are here to help. With the aid of a proven sleep apnea dentist, keeping sleep apnea in check, putting the full benefits of sleep to use and increasing quality of life are all entirely possible. And if you think the cumbersome CPAP option is the only one available for treatment, you should definitely consult further with a sleep apnea specialist.
Patients who devote themselves to the treatment that’s best for them quickly start to experience higher alertness levels, increased metabolism, healthy bursts of energy and systems returning to normal. The return of benefiting from restful sleep begins almost immediately.
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