Dr. Paul Hoff

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257 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta · When Snoring Becomes a Danger to Your Health · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And sleep apnea is basically your tongue falling back or your palate, you know, the area of the back of the throat where the uvula sits.

All that collapses down and stops your airway.

And there's certain criteria for mild, moderate, severe, and the duration of the obstructions.

But it's basically your airflow is being stopped for 10 seconds or more, or at least partially obstructed.

And that leads to disrupted sleep, fragmentation of your sleep, which leads to fatigue in the morning, and all these other side effects that we're talking about.

No, it doesn't.

That's an important thing to mention because many people snore, and snoring can be horrific snoring, and you still might not have sleep apnea, but snoring is a partial obstruction.

So airflow is limited to some degree, maybe just because you have some nasal congestion at night, but it's not necessarily obstructive sleep apnea.

Obstructive sleep apnea is when the airflow actually stops for a certain amount of time.

Yes.

That's called obstructive sleep apnea.

There are definitely other types of sleep apnea, but obstructive is by far and away the most common, like 95%.

Yeah, UPPP.

It's a long one.

It's a uvulopalatal pharyngoplasty.

Exactly.

Yeah.

It's a big operation.

People spend the night in the hospital afterwards.

The recovery is long.

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