Y foral athletes out there, when we talk about recovery, i mean just the waythat you're breathing at night is so important. If you talk about, ok, we're breaking down our muscles and our tendons during the day, and then we repair at night. But if you're breathing through, if you're waking up with a dry mouth, and youre breathing through the mouth at night, you're not optimizing that recovery. Then you go break down the tendon more and more and more during the day. And that's how the tenanopathies start. And, you know, ruptures like don't think people look at that and go, hum, you know, maybe it's not my training. Sometimes it's not the nutrition, even though these things are very important. Maybe it is literally just how i'm breathing at night. Om do you recommend? Because when i had problems with my breathing years ago, i was waking up with a dry mouth, and i went to the a, to the doctor, and they said, well, we don't need to do a sleep study on you because you don't fit the typical tion of somebody with sleep afnea, because they're looking for somebody who's obese. Ah, yet, what what wilth somebody like me do? We're an athlete and and we go to the doctor and they say, well, you know, you don't fit that bill, like it's probably not the problem. Do you start with just the nasal breathing stuff, taping the mouth, or do you think you should do like, actual sleep study? Well,

you could do a sleep study, because it's absolutely no harm. You know, 50 % of people with obstructive sleep apnea are not obese, so straight off. And 25 % are not tired, neither subjectively nor objectively, are they tired. The following day, i wrote a paper with two ernos and troat doctors, which was published in january of last year, breathing and the phenotypes of sleep apnea, looking at the import of how you breedh during the day, how it impacts your breathing during sleep. So if we have faulty breathing during the day, if our bold score is less than 25 seconds, i'm not talking about 22 seconds or 21 seconds, i'm talking about, if your bolt scores 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 seconds and rand the ar, that implies that your breathing is harder and faster, and whe meeting of turbulence in the airway. It's not just the anatomy that we need to be considering. The doctor looks solely at the anatomy, they're looking at how big as the pipe, but they're not asking the question, what's actually going through it? Because the harder and the faster you breathe, the greater the friction that's developed as you're breathing through that narrow airway. So what we're saying is, let's change your breathing pattern sohat your breathing isn't hard and fast breathing is becoming lighter. And by doing this, we can reduce turblance. And also, we want to be breathing nose slow and low, because when we breathe but optomal movement of the diaphram, it doesn't just impact or movement, or the emotions, but the die from breathing muscle is also linked, mechanically linked, with the air way dilater muscles in the troch so we have to think of the air way as one air way. And if the lower part of the air ay, if the lungs and the diatom ere not working as best as they should be, that's going to impact the operatway and vice versa. So i think there's a huge roll for this an sleep. And you'e thing, paulas you know, if you were to get a positive diagnosis of obstructive sleep at nea, the gold standard of treatment is a seapap machine. Now, a sepap machine is what's called continuous positive airway pressure. It works, but it's vice for by your wearing a face mask or a nasal canula. And it's forcing air down your trosh at a sufficient pressure to splint open the airways. And the problem is it's not sexy. So you think of young, young guys or gals, and you have a bed partner, and you want to cena look your best, and youre jumping into bed with this big device. Well, that's the device. Gam straight off. Number two is the compliance is not high. 50 % of people can't tolerate it. So even if you got a positive diagnosis oft obstructive sypatnia, what is the best treatment out or available? The sepat machine, which 50 % of the population can't tolerate. Mendibula advancement, which works, but can put a lot of pressure in the t m j, the temperament of er joint. So, and i'm not saying hat, i'm not anti these, but the reason that breathing has not taken off is because you cannot scale it. I will never be a multi millionaire from teaching breathing exercises, because it's just something that's free. And i put it into a book, and yes, of course, i've a lovely living from it, but we're not going to get the research because it doesn't promise the big profit is normally available for devices in the sleep industry, and it is a big industry. It's a billion, multi billion dollar industry world wide. 30 % of men suffer from obstructive sleep. Utner, 30 %, depending on the age, and especially as they get a bit order as well. The other thing i say is, if you say, for example, your atletes are really working hard during the day, and you, you know, you're physically, you're stressing the heart, which is good by doing physical exercise. But then if you're stopping breathing during sleep, you're also stressing the heart, which is not good. The heart is not getting recovery. And then when when i hear of more, so the bigger guys, like, oftentimes is the rugby guys, the big guys with a larger nex circumference. And i'm forty eight years of age, hearing of a guy over forty year old, and he's after dying because of a heart attack. And i'm just thinking of myself, did anybody ask how was disguy sleeping?