Dr. Matt Walker

And that's the sound of the flutter that we're having.

But then at some point,

you just hear silence.

At that point, the person stopped breathing entirely, absence of breath.

That is much more likely to happen if you are sleeping on your back, because when you're sleeping on your back, your airway is giving way to gravity, which is wanting to pull the airway down and close it and shut it off.

So one of the suggestions for people who have snoring or sleep apnea is trying as best you can to train yourself out of sleeping on your back.

Now, there's lots of gadgets out there that can sort of help in ways you can do that.

The old school way that we used to do it...

Sleep apnea is more common in men than it is in women, but women still have it.

But if you had a male, you would bring them into the clinic and you would say, could you, and it's often males who perhaps are carrying excessive body weight.

And so they're of larger mass size.

You'd say, can you also bring a t-shirt in of your wife?

And it has to be a t-shirt that has a pocket on the front.

and then we would ask them to wear the t-shirt back to front so it's a very tight-fitting t-shirt it's back to front and then you took a tennis ball or a hockey ball in the back pocket and as you're lying there in bed and you turn over onto your back you get this

painful signal of the tennis ball pushing you in the back.

And it gradually, I know.

Who came up with this?

Was this Matt Walker's idea?

This is not me.

It's clever.