Guess what the easy cure to sleep apnea is?

I'll give you a hint... it is not a CPAP!

A good friend of mine that is a bit younger than me has had sleep apnea for awhile and I believe was using a CPAP.

He knew I was big into this biomechanics stuff and so he asked me if I thought my appliance would help.

I asked him… “Do birds still fly south for the winter?”

He looked at me confused and answered… “Yes I guess so”

And i chuckled…. “well there’s your answer to your question!”

He bought one the next day and started using it as soon as it arrived.

A few weeks after that he pinged me and was like “Ken… this thing is really helping me sleep a lot better. Thank you!”

And i’m sure with enough time… he will open things up enough that he will be sleeping better than he ever has.

What is sleep apnea?

Sleep apnea basically means you stop breathing while you sleep. The most common type is Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), where your airways physically collapse during sleep.

It's not just about snoring - this stuff cripples your ability to enjoy your life.

It destroys your sleep quality, tanks your energy levels, and increases your risk of pretty much every major disease.

Plus it destroys your cognitive function because your brain isn't getting enough oxygen at night.

For a person that sleeps poorly on a regular basis… getting good sleep would probably be the biggest driver of happiness in their life. It’s just so important.

The rise of sleep apnea

The numbers are insane - sleep apnea has exploded in the US over the past few decades. Something like 30 million Americans have it now, and that number's growing fast.

Look at CPAP machine sales - they're through the roof.

Millions of people are sleeping with these machines strapped to their faces every night. It's become so normal that people don't even question why this is happening.

The cause of sleep apnea

The medical establishment will give you all kinds of reasons - being overweight, anatomical features like a thick neck, age, sleeping position, genetics, smoking, alcohol... the list goes on.

But here's what drives me crazy - they're listing symptoms as causes. It's like saying "you're fat because you're overweight." No shit! But WHY are you overweight?

And then when you look at some of the other factors… they do not explain the rapid growth of sleep apnea:

• Genetics: did our genetics change massively in the last 20-30 years? Well if that’s the case than you need to wake up Charles Darwin and tell him he was full o shit.

• Smoking: has decreased significantly in the last few decades

• Alcohol use: has remained more or less flat the past few decades

So what has caused this rocketing up of sleep apnea?

The real cause is these biomechanics

Doctors that diagnose sleep apnea like to talk about "anatomical features" like narrow airways and deviated septums being correlated to it.

And they act like these things just happen randomly.

But ask yourself - why do some people have narrow airways while others don't?

The answer is simple - their skulls are literally crushed. When your skull deflates like a balloon losing air (which happens when you flatten your curve of spee), everything gets compressed - including your airways.

I talk about this in a lot more depth in this article:

The "Crushed Box" Theory

What are the common treatment approaches?

The conventional approaches are mostly ridiculous to me - lose weight, avoid alcohol, change sleeping position, use a CPAP machine, get surgery... they’re all mostly just bandaids.

They do not fix the structural root cause of the problem.

And so the problem typically remains with them indefinitely.

The only treatments that do address the root cause are the oral appliances that many companies are now selling.

But the fact that these things will ‘inflate’ the skull and help fix the problem permanently is a side benefit that these companies that sell them probably do not even understand.

They just think the oral appliance is holding the airway open. And are completely oblivious to the fact that it is also stretching all of the soft tissue of the skull.

Also some of them are engineered to lock a specific jaw position and those will plateau your improvement. Because the jaw position needs to be free to move around as things improve.

A rubber mouthguard is all you really need

How do you fix sleep apnea once and for all?

Simple. You need to "uncrush" your skull. And the way to do that is by stretching the soft tissue through the biomechanics i talk about.

A simple rubber mouthguard like the Reviv One can do this.

It adds vertical height between your teeth while unlocking the occlusion and ‘inflates’ the skull. As this happens, your airways naturally open up as cranial bones begin to move back to their correct anatomical position.

Breathing improves and sleep apnea typically resolves itself.

Closing thoughts

Sleep apnea isn't some mysterious disease that just happens to people. It's a direct result of biomechanical collapse.

I never see people with perfect structure (eg. models, pro athletes, etc) who have sleep apnea. Do you?

Rather the ones that are sleeping with a CPAP every night are people that i typically take one glance at them and i am not surprised.

And instead of trying to get to the root cause of the problem our medical system is putting millions of people on CPAP machines and telling them they'll need them forever. It's absolute stupidity once you understand just how easy this stuff is to fix.

Fix the structure, fix the problem.