Full Description
This book could save your relationship, your job, your health, and even your life.
Sleep apnoea is one of the most dangerous and least understood of sleep disorders. But it's one everyone should be talking about, not least because its main symptom causes the biggest battle in the bedroom: snoring.
Apnoea means the temporary cessation of breathing, and that's serious. It impacts the oxygen getting into your body, which affects the whole body, and puts your brain and heart particularly at risk. It's a (not-so-) silent epidemic.
The impact is devastating. Lack of sleep affects how we function: physically, mentally, and emotionally. And because snoring is so disruptive, the problem can be just as serious for the partner as for the snorer themselves.
You deserve better - and so does your partner. Discover how to solve sleep apnoea and change everything.
Dr Michael Oko is a leading consultant ENT specialist. He worked as an advisor on OSA for the Department of Health and in 2023 became a founding member of the All-Parliamentary Working Group as the ENTUK representative to advise the House of Lords and Parliament on sleep apnoea.
Contents
Cover
Praise for Snore Wars!
Title
Copyright
Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part one: Understanding sleep and snoring
Chapter one: The new science behind sleep
Chapter two: When is snoring a sign of sleep apnoea?
Chapter three: Why sleep apnoea kills
Chapter four: Have you or your partner got sleep apnoea? Find out!
Part two: Snore wars!
Chapter five: A man's world
Chapter six: A woman's world
Chapter seven: Junior snorers
Part three: A mad, tired world
Chapter eight: Waking up to a sleepless society
Chapter nine: The huge cost of little sleep
Part four: Sleep, the best medicine
Chapter ten: How to win the snore wars!
Chapter eleven: The miraculous CPAP machine
Chapter twelve: Snore off! Other sleep apnoea and snoring treatments
Chapter thirteen: What will help you to sleep?
Chapter fourteen: Busting sleep myths - what's true or false?
My manifesto for raising awareness of OSA
Endnotes
Index
