Dr. Michael Grandner

It might be more like one out of every 15 or 20 women.

And then as BMI goes up, it gets more common.

So it's shockingly common.

It's so common that my threshold for screening for it is very low, especially among otherwise fit people because the normal risk factors.

So like as you gain weight, you get it more because it can crowd out your airway.

Muscle too?

Yeah, muscle too.

Think of it this way.

So most mammals, their airway is a straight line, you know, from snout all the way up and to their lungs.

It's a straight line from snout to their lungs.

Humans, by moving upright, we solved a lot of problems and we've gotten a lot of benefit from being upright.

But we created...

It created a problem with us in that our tube now has a 90 degree angle in it.

And if you're designing a pipe and you put a 90 degree angle kink in your hose, where is it, where is it going to start having problems?

It's going to have problems at that.

And that's what happens.

So like right around that spot here, that's where we get narrowing of the airway.

And so like any mass, whether it's muscle or fat or whatever, any mass, I mean, there are people who look at MRIs of like muscle

tongue fat, like cheeks, like anything here, whether even skinnier people with smaller airways, you know, where it's a little more compressed.

It's a vulnerability in the human physiology for breathing issues.