How Can You Fix Your Sleep Disorders, Sleep Apnea, or Snoring with Emily Lucente

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast is created by Rupa Health, the best way to order, track & get results from 30+ lab companies in one place. In today’s episode, Dr. Carrie Jones is joined by Emily Lucente, a Critical Care Nurse and Sleep Care Specialist. They discuss how sleep disorders, sleep apnea, snoring, and mouth taping can affect you. Key Takeaways: What Are Sleep Disorders and Sleep Apnea? A sleep disorder is a problem with sleep due to insomnia, falling asleep, staying asleep, maybe a REM behavioral sleep disorder, sleepwalk, or sleep talk. There are also breathing disorders while you're asleep. And that's what sleep apnea or obstructive sleep apnea is. There are two different types of sleep apnea. Central sleep apnea occurs when your brain doesn't trigger you to sleep and breathe. And obstructive sleep apnea is a mechanical problem as the airway collapses when you go to sleep. Sleep Apnea Symptoms: There are two types of people with sleep apnea, asymptomatic and symptomatic. The asymptomatic group doesn't have any symptoms, except they snore or stop breathing when sleeping. The symptomatic group has most of the symptoms related to sleep apnea. These include snoring, daytime sleepiness, fatigue, hypersomnia, dry mouth, headaches, brain fog, and fragmented sleep. Sleep Disorders During Perimenopause: We have complex muscles in the back of our throat that work together to keep the airway open and have good muscle tone. As women transition to perimenopause, estrogen and progesterone levels drop, and the throat muscles loosen. So when women go to sleep at night, those muscles relax. And as our estrogen and progesterone levels drop, they relax even more. Emily Lucente is a board-certified nurse practitioner and member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. As a sleep care clinician and expert, she regularly educates on all aspects of sleep as she feels it's a significant foundation of overall health and well-being.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome to the Root Cause Medicine podcast.
0:03.8	I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.
0:06.1	Today I'm talking with Emily Lucente, a nurse practitioner who gave us the lowdown on sleep disorders,
0:12.4	sleep apnea, snoring, and mouth taping, and how all that's affecting you.
0:17.2	Emily is a board certified nurse practitioner specializing in pulmonary and sleep medicine.
0:22.7	She's a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and regularly educates on all aspects of
0:28.3	sleep as she feels it's a major foundation of health. It was an absolute pleasure talking with her
0:34.0	today is I know you probably have questions around snoring or sleep apnea and how
0:39.9	that's really affecting your health. Here's a clip from today's conversation. There are several
0:45.5	risk factors or reasons why somebody may have sleep apnea, obstructive sleep apnea. For instance,
0:52.6	anatomically, right? Some people may just have smaller airways
0:55.7	with big old giant tonsils in the back of their throat. So getting those tonsils removed,
1:00.7	maybe all they need to do to keep that airway open. There's also oral appliances, oral dental devices.
1:07.3	It's similar to like a night guard for people who have bruxism or clenched their
1:10.9	teeth. It's an oral device that just kind of pops the jaw forward at night. And when you pull
1:15.3	this mandible forward and just slightly adjust it forward, the base of the tongue comes away from
1:20.2	the airway, puts a little tension on the soft tissues, and keeps the airway nice and open.
1:24.7	So that's a really nice, portable, low-key device. For some people who
1:30.7	maybe they're morbidly obese and they have big sick necks circumference, weight loss can cure
1:36.3	sleep apnea. I have a lot of patients who come to me who are being worked up for bariatric surgery,
1:42.4	and it's one of the things they have to do, one of the hoops or the boxes they have to track is do sleep testing and get on a sleep machine or CPAP machine if they have significant apnea because it helps so much with the weight loss. Once they lose the weight, they hit their goal weight, whether it's bariatric surgery or through diet and exercise, lifestyle and behavior., we retest, and they don't even need
2:01.8	anything anymore. That's just a small taste of the amazing show that we have for you today.
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