> what I believe in many cases is a structural issue

Many cases it is not. I'm not trying to be a contrarian but I don't want to plant hope in some people who suffer from sleep apnea thinking it's something they can just do breathing exercises for.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/central-sleep...

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UberFly an hour ago | parent | next [-]

In MOST cases it actually is a structural issue. The brain anomaly that causes paused and intermittent breathing is much more rare.

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ajkjk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

fwiw I really believe it is, my sleep problems come and go based on entirely physical variables--how flexible I feel, how much time I spent "shrimping", how tight my back and neck are.

Personally I would not be surprised at all if in 50-100 years we look back on this era as one where we massively overprescribed CPAP machines to treat an entirely-fixable condition in most people (alongside all the other medical interventions that will turn out to be bandaid fixes for actually fixable problems). I'm aware this is a bit of an outlandish take. But you can tell how many people's breathing and posture is bad just by existing in the world for ten minutes and looking at them. I think it's really an epidemic.

	▲	JoeyJoJoJr an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t think it’s an outlandish take at all. You can possibly also put orthotics and spectacles in the list of interventions as solutions to problems largely induced by unnatural adaptations to an unnatural environment.