Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

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Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech and Future Tech Health

Podcasts. I have Dr Stephen Y Park. He's the author of

Sleep Interrupted. So we're going to talk about why so many people in the US and

around the world are not sleeping well and are sick and tired because of it.

So Dr. Park, thank you for coming, appreciate it.

My pleasure.

Yes, so tell me, what inspired you to even write the book in the first place and to work in the field you work in?

So I was trained as a general orthoelaryngologist for E&T surgeon and what I noticed was that many of these people,

many of my patients who had chronic sinus or ear or throat problems snored.

And so I started ordering sleep tests on all these patients and had a really high number of patients that were found in

have Cidabnia, which is a condition where they stopped breathing a lot at night.

And so I started ordering more sleep studies and found that many of these chronic E&T problems and not to mention many of these other health conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, memory problems, anxiety, depression, even digestive issues, were all directly

or indirectly related to sleep and breathing problems.

So that's when I got interested in sleep medicine and sleep apnea and then everything's been just down

now since then. So you'd have ENC patients and what are some of the

top complaints they had that you saw correlated with

sleep apnea or other sleep problems. You mentioned a few but maybe the E&T specific

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