Empowered Sleep Apnea – Details, episodes & analysis

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EVERYONE SINGS!

...if siloed thinking prevents us from grasping COMPLEXITY, true collaboration requires a moment of transformation, when one can emerge from one's silo...how does that happen?....and what does that moment of transcendence feel like?

Join Dave and special guest, Airway Health Solutions founder and fellow PULMONAUT Lauren Gueits for this very special episode that daringly journeys into the Musical Metaverse to answer these questions! Can humility elevate us above the din of argument? Dave and Lauren get playful with this notion within an all-new original earworm of a POP SONG, and invite you to come along...

CARTOON showcased in today's episode: THE NEW PATIENT 

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, Life Fans! For this extra-delibulous palindromic 11th episode of our second season, Dave reads from the Beautiful Blue Book three tales of a SCARY thing we see here on the ISLE of SLEEP APNEA, something called "CPAP Pressure Toxicity".

What's CPAP Pressure Toxicity?  It’s any CPAP setting that’s TOO HIGH FOR YOU? What does that look like? Well, listen to our three stories...SCARY STORIES for HALLOWEEN…and find out for yourself! Don’t worry, Life Fans! We wouldn’t leave you IN THE DARK! All three of our TALES OF TERROR happily resolve into joyful EMPOWERMENT!

The cartoon for today's episode is a teaching point that's worth REMEMBERING...the type of mask we use for CPAP really MATTERS...our cartoon character CLAUDIO helps us take a look at the functional differences between nasal masks and oronasal masks.

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Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST
Season 2: STORIES FROM THE FIELD
Episode 2: TORONTO

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A Sleep Doc and a Scientist walk into a story of transformation…

Join Dave and Ellen as the Beautiful Blue Balloon leaves the ISLE, on a quest to seek and understand. 

In this exciting episode, our intrepid explorers are regaled by the true and wonderful tale of an endless sinus infection, how this entity disguised a most unusual case of Sleep Apnea, and how the Universe can sometimes provide guidance towards wholeness in beautiful and unexpected ways.

In this episode, we’ll learn about the emerging science of Epigenetic Orthodontia—techniques that can literally change the shape of your face! What’s the risk of new innovations like this? How do they work? What is “Epigenetics,” anyway? What should patients and providers know about it? What’s an evidence-based provider supposed to think?

Never fear: Dave and Ellen harness the power of conversation to unlock these secrets, fueled by the eternal light of Sleep-Geek fascination. All will be revealed!

Special guest this episode: Kate Yeshurun, telling her true story of The Endless Sinus Infection. 

About Kate: Kate works for The Kabbalah Centre International as a Kabbalah instructor and global manager of the Roots (Youth) Program. She is also in the process of becoming a certified Birth Doula with DONA International. Kate is passionate about helping individuals navigate the world with more self-love, purpose, and spiritual tools to handle any challenge. She envisions a world in which every human being feels the divinity of their own soul and feels safe and free to be who they truly are...a world in which all humans thrive peacefully together with love and good health! She has moved back home from Toronto to New York, where she currently resides with her husband and daughter.

 Contact Kate at kate.yeshurun@kabbalah.com.

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 Dr. Ted Belfor and Dave wrote up Kate’s story as a Case Report, which has been submitted for publication and is currently under peer-review. The manuscript for Kate’s Case Report may be reviewed HERE.

A similar transformative Case Report (not Kate!) was recently published in the Canadian journal Oral Health.

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Empowered Sleep Apnea is back...and it's time to leave the Island!

Sleep Apnea, as a diagnosis...as a label...means many things to many people. It has a thousand faces. Moreover, it seems like everywhere you go, there's somebody else telling you that they have the answers...and, somehow, it seems like someone is always trying to sell you something...

In this Season 2 PREMIERE, join Dr. Dave McCarty for a balloon ride of a different color, as he chronicles his two-year post-clinical journey through music, time, space, and friendship to try to find a language that ties us all together.

Cartoons featured in today's episode can be viewed on our website! A full PDF transcript of this episode can be downloaded by clicking HERE :)

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Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST
Season Finale
Episode 5: THE MOUNTAIN
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A lone crow...a hidden key...another traveler...a place full of Mountain Magic...

After crossing the RIVER OF DECISION over to TREATED TERRITORY, Robert's gonna find out the reason for that ol' ISLAND SAYING: It's not the crossing, it's the landing!

Many things can go wrong, you see...on your way to Pleasant Dreams Beach.

In this special Season Finale episode, our ol' pal Robert will discover that orienteering around the ISLE is going to require an...um...elevated approach (tee-hee!)...along with...a different set of eyes, a ghost, and an engineering mindset.

In this exceptional, empowering, exciting and vastly entertaining episode, you will...
1. ...take a personal tour of an expert-level Sleep Medicine clinical problem-solving tool  called The Five Finger Approach
2. ...look "under the hood" of the Sleep-Wake MACHINE called the TWO-PROCESS MODEL of Sleep-Wake Regulation
3. ...dig deep into the concept of Circadian Misalignment, using a neato and fully RAD biologic decoder-ring GIZMO called the Circadian Rhythmo-Wheel!
4. ...do a head-first deep-dive into a common complication of Sleep Apnea management called Treatment Emergent Central Sleep Apnea (TECSA), and learn what to do about it from somebody with a ton of experience: Altitude Sleep Medicine expert, Dr. Tom Minor!

Special Guests:
The part of Annie played by Ms. LeVette Fuller
Dr. Tom Minor, as himself

Featured Cartoons & Links:
1. Common Substances that Affect Sleep and Wake (excerpt from our Beautiful Blue Book)
2. Circadian Rhythmo-Wheel , a PDF for printing and assembly at home! (also an excerpt from said Beautiful Blue Book.
3. Fumes in the Attic -- a cartoon to explain the concept of homeostatic sleep pressure and the function of the glymphatic system.
4. Five Finger Approach publication
5. American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Two Week Sleep Diary

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In Episode 1, we experienced the rage of not understanding.

 In Episode 2, we came face to face with the jargon, and looked under the hood at the Many Moving Parts of Sleep Apnea

 In Episode 3, we put that knowledge to good use, discussing our own FIVE REASONS TO TREAT in the comfort of the Coffee Hut. And MMM. Lingonberry Pie. Worthy.

 And in Episode 4, we learned about the different ways across the River…The RIVER OF DECISION, the only way to get across to the TREATED TERRITORY on the ISLAND.

 Coming this Thanksgiving…

 Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE POCAST

 Is proud to present

 The culmination of all your journeys

 It’s not the crossing

 It’s the landing

 Sometimes

 In order to find out where you’re going

 You have to head for higher ground

 Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST

Episode 5: THE MOUNTAIN

 Don’t miss the thrilling season finale. This Thanksgiving.

Premieres 5pm Boulder Time. 

 Don’t Miss It!

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Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST
Episode 4: CROSSING THE RIVER
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...the plates sit in satisfied disarray at the Coffee Hut...

       ...a mysterious phone booth beckons...

              ...a deep and turbulent River awaits...

Join Dave and Ellen in an episode of some...um... portent...

      ....after the Coffee Hut discussion, Robert understands that treatment is necessary...

          ...after the Coffee Hut discussion, Robert has his head wrapped around the WHY? of treatment...and RISK figures prominently...time to set some goals...time to decide on passage across a deep and turbulent river...THE RIVER OF DECISION...

            ...but how does one decide WHICH treatment to embrace? I mean...is it all just about Positive Airway Pressure and Oral Appliances? What about...um...everything else?

Let's get to it! Step up! Step up! We'll check out every boat, raft, skiff and floaty-thingy we can get our hands on!

Dave also steps into the Empowered Sleep Apnea Phonebooth, to get the straight story from Alise Ojay, the creative genius behind the Singing For Snorers project! Everything sounds better with a British Accent, and this stuff actually has research to back it up!
 
Who knew that only a few weeks of SINGING can improve snoring and daytime sleepiness?! 
 
Also mentioned in this episode...

• The SleepImage home sleep testing technology revolution, coming soon...
• Anders Olsson's Conscious Breathing website, and his version of breathing resistance training, the Relaxator...
• Recent research on inspiratory muscle training that shows significant improvements in Blood Pressure, and Sleep Quality after only 6 weeks! 

Breathing, Man! Seems it's IMPORTANT somehow!

How Rad is that?!

Showcased Cartoon: Great Moments in Engineering History

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Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST
Episode 3: THE FIVE REASONS
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...in this episode, our friend Robert finds himself following a White Rabbit...

       ..to find that things on the ISLE are not always as they seem...

                       ...and yet...he seems to feel comfortable at THE COFFEE HUT.

Don't miss this exciting episode, where you'll hear DAVE and ELLEN talk their way through the most challenging of all discussions--THE COFFEE HUT DISCUSSION about the FIVE REASONS TO TREAT.

Oh, yeah. And of course. You gotta have your DAD JOKE!

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Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST

TEASER for Episode 3: THE FIVE REASONS

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Sometimes, zooming in on a new idea, it helps to zoom out first.

 Sometimes it helps to change your perspective.

ROBERT PONATERRO just found out he has Sleep Apnea… 

…and his perspective is…about…to…change…

[that night, Robert had a dream]

It's time to get ready..

On October 4th, Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST presents the most exciting episode yet…

[...when I first got here, I didn't know where I was...]

…sometimes…

[...this place is clearly tropical, seemingly.,South Pacific Ocean...

...THAT's ODD!]

…we have to listen to our dreams…

[the stars...look...strange...]

Experience the magic.

[...there is...a new...opening...]

Come to the ISLE.

[...that has...suddenly appeared in this garden room...]

Change your life.

Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST

Episode 3: THE FIVE REASONS

Premieres Tuesday, October 4th, 5PM Boulder Time

Don’t miss it!

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In this special episode, the mysterious and elusive house band 25% FRED  takes on the majestic Empowered Sleep Apnea theme music, to produce Empowered Sleep Apnea's first POP SINGLE! How FULLY RAD is THAT?

If Martha Quinn and JJ Jackson were here, they'd probably tell you to watch our GNARLY MUSIC VIDEO version of the song by clicking HERE. How 80's is that?

Yay, EMPOWERMENT!

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