Samuel Briggs
CPAP Travel Without the Missed Nights: What the Compliance Data Actually Says
Four hours a night, seventy percent of nights. That is the threshold Medicare uses to decide whether a CPAP machine is "working" — meaning whether it will keep paying for one.
CPAP Therapy Mask Leaks: Why "Just Tighten the Straps" Is Almost Always Wrong
The first thing a new patient does when air hisses out of a CPAP mask at 2 a.m. is reach up and pull the straps tighter. The second thing they do, often weeks later, is quit.
CPAP Therapy and Allergies: Why Summer Is the Season Your Humidifier Was Built For
The CPAP user in July is a particular kind of frustrated. The pollen count is up, the bedroom is warm, and somewhere around 2 a.m.
A 60-Day Mouth-Taping and Oropharyngeal Exercise Experiment for Mild Sleep Apnea
For sixty nights I ran a single-subject experiment on my own airway. I have mild positional sleep apnea — an at-home test put me at an AHI of 11.4, mostly supine — and I wanted to know whether the…
Seasonal Affective Disorder: What the Standard Advice Gets Right, and Where It Quietly Falls Apart
The advice arrives every May in Melbourne and every November in Boston, with the reliability of a tax notice. Get more light. Exercise. Take vitamin D. Maybe buy a lamp.
How to Get More Deep Sleep Without Buying Anything
Your watch told you you got 47 minutes of deep sleep last night, and somewhere on the internet a chart said you should be getting closer to 90.
Sleep Tips for New Parents: Which Nap Strategy Actually Buys You Back the Most Sleep?
It is 3:14 a.m. The baby has fed, eventually settled, and is making the small clicking noise that means sleep.
The Best Hybrid Mattress Isn't the One With the Most Coils
Somewhere between mattress-store small talk and YouTube reviews where a man drops a bowling ball on a bed, a number got loose: 1,000 coils. As if that were a threshold.