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Whether we'd be better off just doing the things that we know help a lot more.

Speaking as a sleep physician scientist, even if that pill were available, I would not use it.

I think sleep is really valuable and there's a lot of things that occur during sleep that are mysterious and probably can't be boiled down into a pill that, at least in my lifetime, I don't think I'd want to take such a pill.

So there are other treatments.

I think it depends on the individual whether they would consider them better.

At least among my patients, I feel like they really split on PAP.

They either love it or they hate it.

Right.

So for the people who love it, I say great.

I think, you know, in the past 15, 20 years, there's been continued improvements in mandibular advancement devices.

So these are like mouth guards that people wear that push the lower jaw forward.

And more recently, there's been the emergence of hypoglossal nerve stimulators.

These are like pacemakers.

They're implanted.

They stimulate the hypoglossal or 12th cranial nerve.

So it increases the muscle activity at the base of the tongue.

And so that helps hold the upper airway open and prevents it from collapse.

So that's pretty cool.

You know, they have an implanted stimulator that prevents them from having apneas.

So, you know, that's been on the market for a few years now.