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Sleep, Interrupted

Years ago, I went camping with my cousin Mike. At nightfall, we retired to our separate tents to sleep, and an hour later, I startled awake at the sound of a bear growling outside my tent. GggrrRAAWWLL! This terrifying grumble continued until I realized it was, in fact, Mike snoring. And then I heard something even more frightening: total silence. He’d stopped breathing. Half a minute passed, and then, a loud GASP as he sucked in air and resumed snoring. This cycle repeated itself throughout the night. I didn’t know it then, but my cousin had sleep apnea.

This condition exists in two forms: obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the most common type, and central sleep apnea, a more rare version caused by nervous-system problems. With OSA, the upper airway becomes obstructed—usually because the throat muscles that keep the airway stiff relax too much, collapse, and block breathing. The brain senses the drop in blood-oxygen levels and briefly wakes you up to kick-start breath. An “apnea,” or cessation of breath, typically lasts 10 to 20 seconds and occurs 20 to 30 times an hour.

Because you wake up so briefly, you typically don’t remember it. For that reason, many people, like my cousin, go undiagnosed. Nonetheless, more than 12 million Americans suffer from the condition...

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