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The Best Sleep Podcast Ever: Everything You Need To Know About Sleeping Better, Hacking Sleep, Sleep Cycles, Insomnia, Sleep Apnea & More

Ben Greenfield Life

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Chomesa and Insomnia

There's a new term for when insomnia co occurs with sleep apnea called chomesa which is actually pretty common. A lot of times there's this I don't know if you're ever seen inspire as an alternative treatment it's actually like an implant that they put in you and it can stimulate your muscles and your throat to open. When they do that then they'll find that the people have insomnia and then they'll need to treat that. Around 50% of people who are prescribed CPAP which is the recommended treatment don't use it after a year so it's really a huge problem.

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