Dr. Andy Galpin

We'll work out switching out behaviors a little bit later.

That's another one.

Ventilation in the room is critically important.

People don't pay attention to this.

One of the biggest reasons people wake up during the night is because they can't breathe through their nose.

One of the biggest reasons you can't breathe through their nose is dander, pollen, allergens, something like that.

Start to block it up.

Whether that's completely blocked or not, but then you open up and you start mouth breathing.

Mouth breathing then means your tongue is a bigger issue.

as well as your mouth can get dehydrated or get dry, rather, and you have a little bit of a dry mouth and you need to have a drink of water at night.

These things can happen.

This will wake people up a ton.

You want to make sure that you have proper ventilation in your room.

One of the things that also happens in this is CO2.

CO2 levels rise above 900 parts per million.

This will significantly and dramatically affect everything from sleep onset, sleep quality, next day perceived fatigue, next day arithmetic ability.

CO2 getting too high in a room can happen because your doors and windows are all closed.

If you have multiple bodies, you and your partner, your dog is in there, all of you are now kicking out CO2 into the room, right?

You're exhaling.

If that room is small, and again, lack of ventilation, that number starts to rise.