Claire Munroe
A Sleep Apnea Diet at the Tailgate: What I Eat Now Instead
I was diagnosed with moderate obstructive sleep apnea in late July — AHI of 22, the sleep tech circled it twice on the printout — and my first home game was the second Saturday in September.
Sleep Apnea in Infants: I Spent a Week With the Research Behind a Parent's Worst 3 a.m. Google
A friend called me the Friday before Mother's Day. Her sister had brought a 34-weeker home from the NICU two days earlier, and the baby kept doing the thing — the chest-still, eyes-closed, five-second…
Central Sleep Apnea Treatment: Why the CPAP Story You've Heard Is Probably Wrong
The myth is tidy and almost true: sleep apnea is sleep apnea, and the answer is a CPAP machine. A smart reader has heard some version of this from a relative, a primary-care physician in a hurry, or…
CPAP Therapy at Six Months: What Most People Do, What the Evidence Says, What I Actually Do
Six months in, the verdict is unromantic: CPAP therapy works, but the version most people are handed on day one is not the version that works for them by month three.
Does Sleep Apnea Treatment Actually Make You Look Better? Comparing CPAP, Oral Appliances, and Doing Nothing
In 2013, a plastic surgeon and a sleep researcher at the University of Michigan did something unusual.
Your Apple Watch and Sleep Apnea Detection: What the Wrist Actually Sees
There's a question a lot of Apple Watch owners have quietly asked themselves around 2 a.m., usually after a partner has complained about the snoring again: If something were really wrong with my…
Sleep Aids for Children: What I Actually Tried, and What the Evidence Says
A pediatrician I trust said something last winter that I've been turning over since: "The melatonin gummy is doing less than the bedtime story, and the bedtime story is free." I had asked her…
Dreams and Dream Meaning: What a Diary Can Actually Tell You
The dream diary is one of those rituals that survives changes in fashion the way sourdough starters do — passed between believers, slightly modified each generation, rarely examined. Freud kept one.
A Four-Week Experiment in Diet and Sleep Quality
The short version, before any of the caveats: across four weeks of tracking, the changes that actually shifted my sleep weren't the famous ones. Kiwis at 9 p.m. did nothing I could measure.