Thomas Greenwood
The Best VR Accessory for Your Quest 3 Might Be the One That Lets You Stop Wearing It
The most useful thing you can buy for a Meta Quest 3 is not a better controller or a louder pair of strap-mounted speakers.
A Nightcap and Sleep Apnea: Why the Drink That Knocks You Out Makes Your Airway Worse
A drink before bed helps you sleep. Most people believe some version of this, and they are not crazy to.
CPAP for Pediatric Sleep Apnea: What Most Parents Do, What the Evidence Says, and What Actually Works at 9 p.m.
There is a particular silence in a house where a child has just been prescribed CPAP. The machine arrives in a box. It hums.
CPAP Batteries and the Quiet Math of Camping With Sleep Apnea
Search any camping forum for sleep apnea and you'll hit the same number within three posts: 100 watt-hours.
The Air Quits Before the Patient Does: A Mechanical Look at Sleep Apnea Treatment Compliance
The number you'll hear is 50 percent. Roughly half of people prescribed CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea aren't using it well a year later.
CPAP Therapy and the Four-Hour Number Nobody Explained to You
Somebody — a sleep tech, a pamphlet, the respiratory company that dropped off your machine — told you the number. Four hours a night, five nights a week.
I Spent Six Weeks Chasing a Sleep Apnea Cure. Here's What Actually Worked.
The question I typed into a search bar at 2 a.m., after my third night of waking up gasping, was simple: can sleep apnea actually be cured, or am I signing up for a machine for the rest of my life?
Sleep Hygiene Is Mostly One Number: What "Stimulus Control" Actually Does
There is a number behind good sleep hygiene that almost no one quotes, and it is more useful than anything you've read about blue light.
Three Ways to Stop CPAP Therapy Rainout: A 14-Night Comparison
Rainout is the small indignity nobody warns you about when you start CPAP therapy. The humidifier does what it's supposed to — softens the air, keeps the back of your throat from cracking like drywall…