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🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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0:00.0 | If you're breathing through your mouth when you're sleeping, what can happen is because you're through the |
0:06.1 | neurology of sleep, your central nervous system innervates your muscles and your tongue is a major muscle. |
0:11.7 | And so when you're in REM sleep in particular, your tongue is a major muscle and so when you're in REM sleep in particular |
0:14.0 | your tongue can become temporarily paralyzed it sounds a little weird but if you're |
0:18.3 | breathing through your mouth and you're laying back you can envision if your tongue is |
0:22.0 | not getting any sort of tonic |
0:24.0 | nervous system input it can collapse your airway and this is very common way |
0:28.8 | more common than people realize like sleep disorder breathing is a spectrum |
0:31.6 | people you have normal nasal breathing, |
0:34.1 | then on the other end of the spectrum, |
0:35.4 | you have sleep apnea. |
0:37.0 | Most of us are kind of in the middle, |
0:38.4 | where we have these periodic apnic events. |
0:41.3 | One clue of people who have this is they wake up in the middle night to go pee |
0:45.8 | because when you're having this sort of choking yourself on your own tongue which is crazy a lot of people |
0:50.9 | do this it affects vasopressin and the retention of |
0:54.4 | water it can cause you to go peace |
0:58.6 | welcome to the pretty intense podcast today is going to be an education in health and |
1:05.2 | wellness when it comes to working out supplements food fasting exercise blood |
1:11.8 | sugar, insulin, all those things. |
1:14.4 | And it is with Mike Mutzel. |
1:16.4 | He has a degree in biology. |
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