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without first speaking with your doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I spoke with

Jenny Upalinski, who is a speech pathologist and Gavin Garde from our clinic. And we were discussing this very interesting breath training

device that can help people who want to sing better, speak louder, breathe better, and especially

potentially for how that pertains to athletic performance on the one side and on the other side of the

spectrum for those who have apnea or other sleep disorder breathing this has been shown in a

number of clinical trials to help with that so we'll go over how this 55 dollar device

cheap device can help you with a myriad of things that actually can also help with

swallowing. So for those of us who have a difficulty with swallowing pills or food, this can

help there also. And then at the end of this episode, Gavin and I will be back one-on-one

discussing a experiment that we ran and how our

kind of N of 2 experiment was derailed because of a reaction I had to a kind of peptide that I thought

was going to give me a heart attack. So there's a little bit of a twist at the end, but we also

discuss this experiment that we ran.

And there's a couple important concepts there in terms of we did, and by we Gavin

was the only one who really finished this test, but a pre-post watchpat one home sleep test

did the protocol with this breath training device, and then did a post-watch

Pat 1, and Gavin felt better, but his labs got worse. And so we'll discuss how we reconcile

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