Dr. Michael Grandner

I don't know why something wakes me up.

I have no idea, but I cannot get right back to sleep immediately.

Like within a few minutes, I mean, something just happened.

Some flare up just happened somewhere.

Um, that's, that's what I look at in athletes.

Often what I'll look at is I feel like my sleep is really shallow and I don't know why.

Because what's happening is you might be having lots of these low-level respiratory... That's the thing.

When you get the more severe sleep apnea, like 30 events per hour or more with these other presentations, but you get a lot of the mild to moderate cases in people who don't have a lot of extra weight, aren't older and have neuromuscular control issues, which just happens with age.

They're younger, they're healthier, but they just might have a narrow airway.

And, and so like, I'll never forget, like there was this, there was a, um, uh, an Olympic level athlete I was working with.

She was, she was in the trials and she's like, she's not meeting the times.

I think I should, she was still faster than everybody else.

But she's like, my intuition is telling me something is in my way from reaching what I could be doing.

I don't know what it is.

And like, how are you sleeping?

It's like, I feel like my sleep is kind of shallow.

I fall asleep just fine, but I feel like I'm up a few times during the night and I don't really know if that's a problem or not.

So I'm like, well, let's see what's going on.

Turns out she had, she had mild sleep apnea, got that treated better.

And she's like, oh, that was it.