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Reversing
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Proof That Sleep Apnea Can Be Reversed By Losing Weight
Authored by Dr. RK
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TESTIMONIALS & REVIEWS
FOREWORD
COPYRIGHT PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 SLEEP APNEA STATISTICS
Nearly 1 Billion People Worldwide Have Sleep Apnea
Star Wars
Actress “Carrie Fisher” Died from Sleep Apnea
Supreme Court
Justice “Antonin Scalia” Died in His Sleep
Statistics Posted By ResMed
Statistics Posted By Men’s Health
The
University of Wisconsin Statistical Survey
Sleep
Apnea Sufferers Caused Car Crashes
Sleep
Apnea Sufferers Developed Diabetes
Pregnant
Women Developed Gestational Diabetes
A Lot of
Women Also Have Sleep Apnea
Archives
of PHAC & Statistics Canada
Statistical Survey From 9523 Canadians
Scientific Study: Sleep Apnea Linked to Cancer
The
University of California Statistical Survey
Statistics Posted by ENT Medical Center
5
Surprising Facts About Sleep Apnea
Statistics From Randomized Research Studies
Mortality
Risk Doubled Among People with Sleep Apnea
REFERENCES
CHAPTER 2
SNORING AND SLEEP APNEA
SNORING
EXPLAINED
Causes of Snoring
How Snoring Occurs?
Treatment of Snoring
Difference Between Snoring & Sleep Apnea
SLEEP
APNEA EXPLAINED
Types of Sleep Apnea
Symptoms of Sleep Apnea
Causes of Sleep Apnea
Risk Factors, Side Effects and Complications
Complications of Obesity
Sleep
Apnea Versus COPD
Blood Oxygen Saturation (SpO2)
Spot Check Oximeters
The Principle of Pulse Oximeter
Oxygen Desaturation Index (ODI)
Apnea and Hypopnea Index (AHI)
Oximeters for Continuous Monitoring
Respironics Oximeter & Nonin Oximeter
ResMed ApneaLink™ Air Home Testing
Device
How to Purchase A Pulse Oximeter
from Resellers?
List of
Resellers to Purchase A Pulse Oximeter?
VISITING A SLEEP APNEA SPECIALIST
Physical Examination & Diagnosis
Polysomnogram Test for Sleep Apnea
Is Polysomnogram Test Necessary?
REFERENCES
CHAPTER
3
SLEEP APNEA TREATMENT Section-I
WHAT IS
THE CPAP THERAPY?
TYPES OF CPAP MACHINES
WONDERFUL HEALTH BENEFITS OF THE CPAP
THERAPY
ADAPING TO THE CPAP THERAPY: AN
UPHILL BATTLE!
SIDE EFFECTS OF THE CPAP THERAPY
DISADVANTAGES OF THE CPAP THERAPY
CPAP MACHINES:
ResMed,
Respironics & Fisher & Paykel
CPAP MASKS: Full Face Masks & Nasal Pillows Masks
Important Tips On Nasal Pillows Masks
HOW TO USE THE CONNECTOR (Swivel Adapter)?
REASONS OF AIR LEAKS
CPAP AIR PRESSURE & RAMP PRESSURE
HOW TO USE THE RESMED CPAP MACHINES
(Everything On How to Use The CPAP Machine & Mask)
Overnight CPAP Performance Report & SD Card
Drawbacks of the CPAP
ResMed's Myair Report
Drawback of the ResMed's Myair Report
How to Know If the CPAP Machine Is Working or Not?
How to Know If the CPAP Therapy Is Working or Not?
How to Know If
Your Sleep Apnea Is Improved or Worsened?
AHI Versus OXYGEN DESATURATION INDEX
Important Notes About the CPAP Therapy
REFERENCES
CHAPTER
4
SLEEP
APNEA TREATMENT Section-II
Oral Appliances or Mouthpieces
Tongue Retaining Devices (TRDs)
Mandibular Advancement Devices (MADs)
Difference Between TDRs &
MADs
A LIST OF 41 ORAL
APPLIANCES (FDA Cleared)
A LIST OF BEST ANTI-SNORING DIVICES
How to Know If This
Treatment is Working or not?
How to Select An Appropriate Oral Appliance?
REFERENCES |
CHAPTER
5 SLEEP
APNEA TREATMENT Section-III
NASAL STRIPS
Nasal Strips to Improve Breathing
Breathe Right Strips
Sleep Right Strips
How to Know If This Treatment Is
Working or Not?
CHAPTER
6 SLEEP
APNEA TREATMENT Section-IV
Nasal Sprays to Improve Breathing
Nasal Congestion & Sinus Infection
General Treatment with Nasal Sprays
Neti Pot
Flonase Nasal Spray
Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children & Adolescents
Can Sleep Apnea in Children Be Treated
By Using Nasal Sprays to Avoid
Surgery?
Navage Nose Cleaner
MyPurMist Handheld Steam Inhaler
Other Nasal Sprays to Improve Breathing
How to Know If This Treatment Is
Working or Not?
REFERENCES
CHAPTER
7 SLEEP
APNEA TREATMENT Section-V
POSITIONAL THERAPY
Four
Sleeping Positions Explained
Clinical Study-I
Tennis Ball Technique for Side Sleeping
Clinical Study-II
Pros & Cons of the Positional Therapy
Clinical Study-III
Clinical Study-IV
Side Sleeping Positions Illustrated
Side Sleeping Device-I
Side Sleeping Device-II
Raise the Head Side of Your Bed
How to Know
If This Treatment Is
Working or Not?
CHAPTER
8 SLEEP
APNEA TREATMENT Section-VI
NATURAL THERAPY: LIFESTYLE CHANGES
Quit Smoking
Quit Drinking Alcohol
Side-Sleeping
Lose Excess Body Weight
How to Know
If This Treatment Is
Working or Not?
FURTHER GUIDANCE
REFERENCES
CHAPTER
9 SLEEP
APNEA TREATMENT Section-VII
SURGICAL
PROCEDURES
OBSTRUCTIVE
SLEEP APNEA IN CHILDREN
Sleep Apnea
Symptoms in Children
Clinical
Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Tonsils, Adenoids, Tonsillectomy
and Adenoidectomy
UPPP (Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty)
The Pillar Procedure
IMDO™ for Small Lower Jaw Surgery
Hyoid Advancement Surgery
Tongue Advancement Surgery
Surgical Tracheostomy
Inspire Implant Therapy for Sleep Apnea
How to Know If Surgery Is
Working or Not?
REFERENCES
CHAPTER
10 SLEEP
APNEA TREATMENT Section-VIII
SCIENTIFIC
PROOF EXISTS
WEIGHT LOSS REVERSES OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
IMPORTANT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
DISCUSSED
Study Published by American Researchers
Study Published by Karolinska Instituite, Sweden
JOURNAL PUBLICATION-I DISCUSSED
JOURNAL PUBLICATION-II DISCUSSED
HOW
Dr. RK REVERSED HIS
OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA?
SLEEP APNEA & WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL
OF Dr. RK
Using Weight-Loss Diet Level-I
(2000 Calories)
SLEEP APNEA & WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL
OF Dr. RK
Using Weight-Loss Diet Level-II
(1000 Calories)
PULSE OXIMETRY
TEST RESULTS FOR OSA OF Dr. RK
INTERPRETATION
OF THE OSA RESULTS OF Dr. RK
AUTHOR'S UPDATE
CHAPTER
11 RECOMMENDATIONS
ON
HOW TO REVERSE OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
About
the Author
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PART-A
Scientists from Karolinska Institute, Sweden (a
research-led medical university in Solna within the
Stockholm urban area of Sweden) published a paper in
Dec 2009 in the British Medical Journal, concluding
and revealing the scientific fact that weight loss
can definitely help cure moderate sleep apnea and
severe sleep apnea.
American researchers from
Obesity Research and Education,
Temple University School of
Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA published
several papers in DiabetesCare, JAMA Internal
Medicine (a
monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by
the American Medical Association), and in other
medical journals
revealing the fact that there
is a strong association among the conditions
obesity, type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea.
Many obese people with type 2 diabetes were
diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. Several
randomized studies conducted by researchers
indicated that weight loss significantly lowered the
Desaturation Index (number of sleep apnea events per
hour) in obese people and so it is possible to
reverse obstructive sleep apnea by losing weight.
This book “Reversing Sleep Apnea authored by Dr. RK”
provides the very practical proof that sleep apnea
can be reversed by losing weight. Dr. RK provided
all the real-time data on how he successfully
reversed his obstructive sleep apnea. He reported
that his Desaturation Index dropped from 28
events/hr to 0.6 event/hour when he lost 40 pounds
of his body weight, and when he lowered his body
mass index (BMI) to perfectly normal.
If you have any physical obstruction or blockage in
your throat, nose or mouth, it is not possible to
fully reverse your sleep apnea. However, depending
on how much excess body weight you have, you can
always improve your Desaturation Index (number of
sleep apnea events/hour) and mean SpO2
(percentage saturation of oxygen in the blood) by
losing weight. By improving the Desaturation Index
and mean SpO2, a sleep apnea patient can
feel a lot better. If you developed obstruction
sleep apnea, caused due to excessive weight gain,
you can fully reverse your sleep apnea and lower
your Desaturation Index to perfectly normal by
losing all that excess body weight. There are many
scientific papers with randomized studies revealing
this fact. This book discusses about those
scientific publications.
This is the only book that has everything a sleep
apnea patient needs to learn and gain concept
regarding this dangerous sleep disorder. This book
is very resourceful and so every sleep apnea patient
should benefit from it by reading and understanding
all the therapies so nicely explained. One of those
therapies could suit your disorder and could free
you from sleep apnea, or improve your sleep
disorder. You need to try and stick to the therapy
that suits your body and your sleep disorder.
PART-B
If you have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep
apnea, whether severe, moderate or mild, it is a
life challenge to deal with and battle with because
of the careless and unhealthy living habits you have
adopted. You have been eating out way too often, not
exercising enough, and have been adding pounds to
your weight. Obesity is the major cause of
obstructive sleep apnea. It is your responsibility
to accept the challenge and take quick action
against this sleep disorder you have developed.
With determination and steadfastness, you can not
only improve your condition, but also strengthen
your ability to respond to your body’s functionality
and lead a much better life. You should always
remember that knowledge is the power, so you must
equip your mind with a deep understanding of sleep
apnea by collecting as much information as possible,
and by reading and researching a lot. Get ready to
battle.
Your biggest decision is your commitment in setting
a goal with an objective, focusing on your goal and
staying focused until you fully manifest your goal.
Motivation, commitment, a strong desire to succeed,
self-discipline and high willpower are the essential
qualities you need to implement on yourself to be
successful. By awakening the giant within yourself,
you can become a sleep apnea guru.
You will go on CPAP therapy.
CPAP means “Continuous Positive Airway Pressure,”
which further means that the CPAP machine helps maintain
continuous, positive, very low and comfortable pressure in the
airway of your throat, and keeps the airway open all
the time whenever you sleep with it. As long as you wear the CPAP machine during the night while sleeping, the
CPAP machine kills most apneas and hypopneas, and
keeps your AHI (Apnea Hypopnea Index) perfectly
normal. As the airway remains always open,
sufficient amount of air passes into the lungs
freely, and maintains normal blood oxygen levels
(Normal SpO2 = 96% to 99%) all the time during sleep. You
wake up in the morning satisfied with your sleep and
completely refreshed. You would not experience the
symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, such as
tiredness with low energy, when you wake up in the
morning. As you sleep all the night with perfectly
normal SpO2 levels, your overall health improves. If
you take appropriate steps to lose your excess body weight, your
obstructive sleep apnea will progressively be healed
and even reversed.
You will love learning and mastering the concept of
eating whole foods only and avoiding processed and
refined foods. You will become an active member of a
local gym, and start exercising every day. It is
very likely that you will lose some weight naturally
without ever using drugs or hunger suppressants
prescribed by your doctor. Even some 10 to 20 pounds
of weight loss would have a significant impact on
your obstructive sleep apnea progress. The number of
sleep apnea events per hour during your sleep would
significantly decline, switching you from severe to
moderate or from moderate to mild sleep apnea, and
allowing you to feel a lot better than you have ever
felt since your diagnosis.
However a substantial weight loss that lowers your
Body Mass Index (BMI) to perfectly normal (18.5 to
24.9 Kg/m 2) would completely wipe out
obstructive sleep apnea from your body. This is a
proven fact, believe it or not. You will be amazed
to witness your own breathtaking performance and
live with a joyous feeling as your overnight pulse
oximetry tests would reveal that your obstructive
sleep apnea has just been reversed, and that you are
free. You would declare yourself a proud winner in
the battle against obstructive sleep apnea. Many
surrounding people would be intimidated, become
envious and a few even surprised.
You would no longer be sleeping with the CPAP
machine. You could pack your CPAP machine and
accessories in a bag and leave it in your closet or
even sell it off on Craigslist. This is what exactly
happened to Dr. RK who wrote the book “Reversing
Sleep Apnea.”
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AMAZON REVIEW: Reversing Sleep Apnea
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Jade
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of 5 stars
Scientific Proof Exists on Reversing Obstructive Sleep Apnea!
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2021
Verified Purchase
This inspirational guidebook
provides us with the scientific proof that exists to reverse
sleep apnea. There are scientific journal publications
revealing the fact that sleep apnea can be reversed by losing
weight. Whether you are obese or overweight and diagnosed with
sleep apnea, you must refer to this book and I bet you will
certainly get inspired and benefited!
Dr. Gary Foster, a clinical psychologist and obesity
investigator, the former founder and director of the Center for
Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA where he was the Professor of
Medicine, Public Health and Psychology, published several
research papers confirming that the symptoms of obstructive
sleep apnea and the desaturation index (defined as the number of
sleep apnea events or episodes per hour) can significantly be
reduced among obese people by losing at least 10% of the body
weight. The more weight a sleep apnea patient loses, the more
effective and successful the reversal of obstructive sleep apnea
could be.
Dr. Erik Hemmingsson and Dr. Kari Johansson along with their
fellow-researchers of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden published
a paper in December 2009 in the British Medical Journal,
concluding that weight loss can definitely help cure moderate
sleep apnea and severe sleep apnea.
Dr. RK in this book “Reversing
Sleep Apnea: Proof that sleep Apnea Can be Reversed By Losing
Weight” provides us with the real time data of his weight loss
results and the procedures he developed and adopted on how to
lose weight fast and how to reverse sleep apnea by losing
weight. When he lost 40 pounds of his body weight, his body mass
index (BMI) was calculated to be perfectly normal. He reported
that when his body resumed perfectly normal weight, his
obstructive sleep apnea and other health disorders disappeared
once and for all.
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AMAZON REVIEW: Reversing Sleep Apnea
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Deanna Maio
5.0 out of 5
stars
Impressively Comprehensive Sleep Apnea Book!
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2020
Verified Purchase
Scientists from Karolinska Institute, Sweden (a research-led
medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of
Sweden) published a paper in Dec 2009 in the British Medical
Journal, concluding and revealing the scientific fact that
weight loss can definitely help cure moderate sleep apnea and
severe sleep apnea.
This book “Reversing Sleep Apnea” provides the very practical
proof that sleep apnea can be reversed by losing weight. The
author of this book Dr. RK provided all the real-time data on
how he successfully reversed his obstructive sleep apnea. He
reported that his Desaturation Index dropped from 28 events/hr
to 0.6 event/hour when he lost 40 pounds of his body weight, and
when he lowered his body mass index (BMI) to perfectly normal.
If you have any physical obstruction or blockage in your throat,
nose or mouth, it is not possible to fully reverse your sleep
apnea. However, depending on how much excess body weight you
have, you can always improve your Desaturation Index (number of
sleep apnea events/hour) by losing weight, and feel good. If you
developed obstruction sleep apnea caused due to excessive weight
gain, you can fully reverse your sleep apnea and lower your
Desaturation Index to normal by losing all that excess body
weight. There are many scientific papers revealing this fact.
This book discusses about those scientific publications.
This is the only book that has
everything a sleep apnea patient needs to learn and gain concept
regarding this dangerous sleep disorder. This book is very
resourceful and so every sleep apnea patient should benefit from
it by reading and understanding all the therapies so nicely
explained. One of those therapies could suit your
disorder and could free you from sleep apnea, or improve your
sleep disorder. You need to try and stick to the therapy that
suits your body and your sleep disorder. |
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AMAZON REVIEW: Reversing Sleep Apnea
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Steve_M
5.0 out of 5
stars Impressively
Comprehensive All-In-One Sleep Apnea Guide!
Reviewed in the United States on
June 13, 2021
Verified Purchase
This book is awesome, well-organized, well-written, and filled
with interesting facts, anecdotes and worth-reading quotes and
paragraphs. Given below is a worth-reading paragraph:
Obesity is the major cause of obstructive sleep apnea. When a
person is overweight or obese, the fat cells infiltrate the neck
and throat tissues so they lose firmness and are more likely to
collapse on to the upper airway of the throat, thereby blocking
the airway. At the same time, the neck and chin become enlarged
and the airway becomes narrower. Too much weight gain also
compresses the chest and makes it difficult to inhale deeply and
freely. Sleep apnea statistics indicate that not only can
obesity cause obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), obstructive sleep
apnea (OSA) can also worsen obesity. Disrupted sleep due to
apneas causes the ghrelin level to go up, and leptin level to go
down. Leptin produces the feeling of satiety whereas ghrelin has
the opposite effect. When this happens, low leptin levels make
you eat more and as a result you gain weight. Weight gain and
obstructive sleep apnea go hand in hand.
If you are diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea as a result of
severe weight gain, this book can save your life, and help you
reverse your obstructive sleep apnea in a matter of months if
not years.
Prescribe this book to your sleep apnea doctor, and tell your
doctor to read this book before he prescribes you and puts you
on CPAP therapy for decades, or until the end of your life. |
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Rosie B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Lower
Your Oxygen Desaturation Index Using This Book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2021
Verified Purchase
This book has many treatment methods to relieve and reverse
obstructive sleep apnea, very beautifully explained in a very
convincing way with scientific details. Doctors don’t teach you
how to lower your Oxygen Desaturation Index (ODI), but this is
the only book that shows you everything about improving and
reversing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Many people with type 2 diabetes are also likely to develop
sleep apnea, and the sleep apnea disease over time can lead to
type 2 diabetes. I have lowered my Oxygen Desaturation Index (ODI)
at least by 10 points by losing excess body weight exactly as
recommended in this book. This book is packed with colossal sums
of information to understand the fundamentals of sleep apnea
topic, and is quite accommodating, impressive and enjoyable. I
enjoyed the writer's methodology, well-researched and blended
with knowledgeable information in every chapter. Everything in
this book unquestionably makes sense and I found it useful in
all respects. I realized that this book indeed would be helpful
in every possible way to improve and reverse sleep apnea.
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RhinoSystems
5.0 out of 5 stars
EVERYTHING YOU EVER
WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SLEEP APNEA - ALL IN ONE PLACE!
Reviewed in the United States
on November 26, 2018
This is an impressively comprehensive and extremely
well-documented review of the therapies available to
treat and help relieve sleep apnea. It is
well-researched and very practical, and it will be
accessible and useful to a wide audience of readers.
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Carolyn
Grigsby
5.0 out
of 5 stars
well written book
Reviewed in the
United States on December 13, 2019
Reversing Sleep Apnea is the book of that kind which am reading
for the very first time and this book makes me very clear about
this topic.
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Pam Barnes
5.0 out
of 5 stars
This book is very helpful
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2019
This book contains a lot of valuable information that is very
useful to us. I enjoyed reading the book. The book has many
important points that I like a lot. |
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