Posted on 07/13/2019 8:17:51 AM PDT by rintintin
Researchers have found that continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can improve depression symptoms in patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases.
Using data from the Sleep Apnea Cardiovascular Endpoints (SAVE) trial led by Flinders University, the new study has found a significant decrease in cases of depression after patients received CPAP treatment for their sleep apnea.
This is by far the largest trial of its type and one of very few studies reporting such an effect, says Professor Doug McEvoy from Flinders University.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
It would be interesting to do a study on depression patients taking supplemental oxygen for treatment.
Third option is surgery. That is the option that I took. They basically carve a v in the back of your throat. VERY painful recovery. It also helped with the weight loss because for 21 days I could not eat anything. Could barely drink room temp tap water.
Ultimately it lead to the loss of 60 lbs and now I no longer have apnea.
I have been using a Cpap machine for about ten years.
While my weight does fluctuate a little bit..(ten or fifteen Lbs), I am in relatively good shape having exercised for the last 40 years.
It makes a world of difference.
Marko
Thank you UpChuck - I also take Magnesium and B12.
I am real bad with salt. I salt my salt. I know I could lose another 15 lbs in two weeks if I can kick that habit.
D3: I’ve been taking a daily 5000 IU D3 pill for about 6 years. Haven’t been sick once.
Salt: “NoSalt” is a sodium-free alternative to salt. To me it tastes like salt. I get mine at WalMart. $4.94.
Technically, I didn’t mentioned orexin, because I didn’t to get technical, but if I reminded you of it to some useful end, the you’re most welcome. People tend to start getting that eyes glazed over look by the time I mention the hypothalamus. I don’t know if Parkinsons works in a similar way, but narcolepsy has recently been found to be an autoimmune disorder that destroys orexin producing cells, that kind of makes sense to me because I have five other autoimmune disorders. I suppose that would be white blood cells attacking the brain rather than the neurons themselves if it’s autoimmune disease, wouldn’t it?
One would think that autoimmune problems that are Immunoglobulin related wouldn’t effect the CNS whereas if there were white cells involved it might but the barrier can be disrupted locally and allow large molecules to enter the CNS. I am not certain of the mechanisms of things like MS (is anybody) where you have macrophages EATING the myelin. But in the case of hypothalamic neurons it’s kind of hard to see how it could start if they were “normal”. I think with MS it is felt that there is an immunoglobulin that starts it and the white cells are just “cleaning up the debris” but I haven’t read on this subject in a long, long time.
Frankly, I’m surprised doctors don’t treat narcolepsy with orexin directly since they know it’s the brain chemical that narcoleptics lack. Apparently, the Army has been using it (to some degree) on soliders in combat which has been shown to both help them to fight longer as well as to get better rest (to the non-doctors and scientists narcoleptics are always tired because though they sleep an awful lot, they don’t get restful sleep), but they treat narcoleptics with everything from the “date rape drug” to amphetimines like Adderall but they don’t treat us with the chemical they know we lack. I’ve wondered if this is because it would require daily injections directly into the brain or something wild like that. Anyhow, I am not thrilled to be tied to pharmaceuticals for life, but all my preconceptions about tweakers aside, Adderall has worked well for me so far, I just feel normal again, I thought it would just make me feel excessively stimulated but still tired, yet unable to sleep like ritalin, modafinil, and armodafinil did before that. Hard to believe that people take the stuff to get high, but I suppose it doesn’t affect them in the same way,
Agreed, but the explosion in cases of sleep apnea is due solely to preventable health matters.
Lack of restful sleep causes people to overeat. Sleep is food and food is sleep as they used to say. You can substitute one for the other for a short time but in the end if you are not getting enough healthy food or restful sleep your body begins to break down.
Orthopedic pillow; Water + Salt: watercure.com. (Fereydoon Batmanghelidj).
Never underestimate the power of the medical/pharmaceutical/industrial complex.
Did you ever hear of sleep apnea before the invention of CPAP machines?
Got that right. You forgot ‘government’. I have a collective tag for all of them in my book, my pet name.
And people died of it.
It was known as "Pickwickian syndrome" in the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth was treated with tracheotomies.
Thankfully the CPAP was invented and they no longer had to cut a hole in your airway so you could breath at night.
Had a friend die from apnea when his mask slipped off during the night - he wasn’t overweight....unless 5’9” and 155 lbs is overweight...
Won’t say you are entirely wrong but there’s always exceptions to the blankets we like to toss over things...
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