Once you watch this episode, you’ll know the answers to the following questions:
- How can you break the nightly cycle of bad sleep?
- Why is a CPAP NOT the gold standard solution?
- What’s the real reason you stop breathing at night?
- How can retraining your breathing restore your sleep?
- What’s the step by step process in becoming free of your CPAP and snoring?
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