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February 20, 2021

Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome – the silent epidemic

UARS is a condition described in the 1990s by Dr Christian Guilleminault. He was studying young, fit men and women who were chronically tired. Sleep tests were providing limited insight into apnoeas and airway obstructions so initially, he had no explanation for the patients’ symptoms. However, with more detailed analysis he noticed a pattern. All...
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The negative effects of sleep apnoea syndromes

The body’s rely on some basic foundations that underpin all our eleven systems. These are oxygencarbon dioxide (a little known fact)the autonomic nervous system When these three systems are disrupted due to structural deficiencies or compensatory dysfunctions, we end up with recurrent intermittent hypoxiaselevated stress response and autonomic imbalanceinflammation The mechanisms above combine to overwhelm...
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