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Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by oarfish on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:06AM (#34955466)
> If you have sleep apnea, no amount of sleep gadgets, good habits, exercise, will help you

Probably not what you mean, but this is untrue as there can be different causes for sleep apnea. For instance obesity, which would be helped by exercise.

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Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by agloe_dreams on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:36AM (#34956882)
Correct. Obesity is the leading cause in the US. A vast amount of anyone overweight in the US have sleep apnea, diagnosed or not.
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Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by crypot on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:14AM (#34957328)
You are asking for the weightist police to show up.
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Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by agloe_dreams on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:24AM (#34957436)
Doc, that's heavy.
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Re:Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery by elric on Monday February 27, 2023 @02:11PM (#34960609)
Exercise does nothing for obesity whatsoever. Every single weight loss study reaches the same conclusion: the impact of exercise alone is negligible.

There's long been a stigma that only fat people have sleep apnea, which is not only false, but it is virtually impossible to lose weight when you have untreated sleep apnea. Meaning that people with sleep apnea are likely to get fat. And even with CPAP, which will greatly improve sleep apnea, you might still end up with UARS which will still make it impossible to lose weight.

Fact of the matter is, we don't know what causes sleep apnea in most people. It is certainly true that excess weight (especially on the chest and neck) can worsen or even cause sleep apnea in some people, but there are plenty of fat folks who don't get apneas. While there are also plenty of skinny folks whose airways collapse in their sleep.

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