Americans don’t want to drink soda anymore

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70. People who cannot function until they have their coffee might have a medical problem.

I used to be unable to open my eyes and walked around like a zombie. Thought I was just not a morning person. I was a night owl. I'm still a night owl, but I can get up and be functional if I have to in the morning.


Well, as it happened, I stopped breathing many times an hour in a sleep study and now have a CPAP machine, which is a hose attached to a thing strapped on your nose that pushes air into your lungs to make sure you don't stop breathing. CPAP stands for "Continuous Positive Airway Pressure". The doctor adjusts the pressure on a follow-up visit.


Now that I'm fully oxygenated, even if I don't get enough sleep for the day, I don't have that feeling of "I can't stand to be up, it takes a huge act of willpower to not go back to bed."

It's made a tremendous difference in my quality of life and how alert I am. I was killing brain cells and not knowing it when I stopped breathing over one time per minute, for half a minute or more. Eventually, your lizard brain kicks in and tells your body to start breathing again. Your brain interprets it as a panic attack, because you're not getting enough oxygen.
It probably causes nightmares.

That's called CNS sleep apnea. There is also sleep apnea caused by nasal or other airway blockage.

Even my piano playing has improved!!!

Sleep apnea is pretty common and as I understand it, people who snore tend to have it. It seems to be a tremendously undiagnosed problem.

Just a word to the wise.