I don’t have sleep apnea any more – but at its worst it woke me 47 times an hour!

Case study: James Charlton

I never realized snoring could kill you.
Until it nearly did kill me.
And then I certainly knew.

These days I sleep like a lamb. My night-time sleep is undisturbed and my days are wonderful.

It’s only when you sleep peacefully the whole night through that you realize just what sleep means to your whole life.

My wife sleeps fantastically well now too – because the days when my grunting and snoring also woke her up are over.

But I remember my life when I had sleep apnea and it feels like a horror story now.

I’d had poor sleep for years. But it had noticeably deteriorated over just a couple of months. I’ve no idea why – and nor did my doctors. Some days I functioned okay-ish but on others I was like a zombie.

At my medical practitioner’s office I described my ongoing tiredness. I told her I already struggled some days with staying alert. I described how irritable I became at times.

And I confessed that, on occasions, I felt moody… low… depressed, even.

And I told her this was all getting worse – noticeably worse – over the last few months.

My wife was there and she was able to describe how I was when I was asleep. She said that on many nights she herself couldn’t sleep because of my snoring…

In return, my GP told me stuff I simply didn’t want to hear.

She suspected obstructive sleep apnea straight away.

And she told me that this was an illness that flat out reduced the life expectancy of anybody who suffered it.

She went into detail. Too much detail, to be honest.

But her absolute bottom line was this: you’re going to a sleep clinic and you’re going there this week. She was insistent that I shouldn’t have let this go on so long – and that now we were racing against time.

The sleep clinic is an overnight stay in a clinic that analyzes a person’s sleep. It’s an odd experience because it doesn’t resemble any environment you or I have ever slept in before.

But that’s not important. What is important is that my sleep results were drop-dead horrible.

I awoke 47 times per hour.

And while this wasn’t an unusual sleep result it meant that, on average, I rarely got even one minute of continuous, uninterrupted sleep. Ever.

Incredibly, I never suspected that I was waking up that often. In fact, despite this incredible result, I thought I slept all through most nights.

The specialist explained that it was common for sufferers of sleep apnea to not realize they were waking up.

In reality, they only knew they had the illness for two reasons: one, their partner told them how disturbed their sleep was.

And, two: they were more or less always fatigued and frequently had focus and mood problems while awake.

Left to ourselves, most of us would sleep ourselves into illness, physical or mental breakdown and an early grave.

And let’s be clear about that. I used to suffer from sleep apnea and if I hadn’t treated it in the way that I eventually did treat it… I may have died from it.

A separate check-up revealed that I had started to lose kidney function – because of my sleep apnea. The loss wasn’t far advanced – but it would progress for a sling as I wasn’t sleeping properly.

Kidney dialysis and a possible transplant was my specialist’s cheerful prediction if I didn’t do something quickly.

And the specialist warned me that oxygen deprivation caused by my inability to breathe properly can and does lead to brain damage as cells deteriorate and die. 

That’s when I took the bull by the horns. I had to.

Like so many sufferers of sleep apnea I was placing fatal stress on my heart and measurable strain on other vital organs. I was causing my heart to struggle and…  there’s only so much of that a heart can take.

And I didn’t even know I was waking up at night.

So here’s my story from my diagnosis of sleep apnea onwards.

First off, I ruled out surgery.

Unless you have a specific problem in the construction of your throat, tongue or nose this isn’t a useful course of action. Its results are sometimes wonderful in specific cases but bitterly disappointing in most other cases.

My specialist told me there could be some work done that might improve things. Might.

He said it might be a little sore afterwards for a few days.

Note this: I was told by several people who’d had it done that it was mind-boggling agony afterwards and that the pain lasted weeks.

So, a cut-open face and ongoing pain… for uncertain outcomes. I decided to pass.

I learnt later something that’s worth noting: many people who are told they need surgery actually find a much better way to tackle their sleep misery. It turns out it’s the same method I used – which I will tell you about in a moment.

To the rescue!

It’s CPAP that was going to be my savior. Apparently.

CPAP stands for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure.

And I was supposed to spend the rest of my sleeping life with a mask clasped to my face while a machine pushed air into my airways.

And, to be fair to CPAP – plenty of people had succeeded with it. But plenty more hadn’t. If you can handle sleeping in that mask then fine. So many can’t and the months-long attempt to get it right fails in the end.

I was advised to give it 3 months at least to get used to it.

The irony of all ironies was that, whereas with sleep apnea I never knew I was waking up, with this darned mask I always knew. Every time I turned to one side the thing would push against my face.

As it disturbed my sleep I would unconsciously throw it off – meaning the sleep apnea was back in full force. I couldn’t win.

I hated it. It was very uncomfortable and I had to take it with me wherever I went – business trips, vacations, visiting family or friends…

Worst of all, I knew it wasn’t even slightly tackling the underlying cause of my terrible sleep pattern.

If CPAP has been recommended to you and you’re thinking of putting in the months to see if it works then please don’t let me stop you.

I’m not a physician.

My qualification is that I used to have sleep apnea and now I don’t. And I used a non-surgical method that requires no equipment and no drugs. And no doctors, for that matter.

Let me tell you what I did.

First a shock… and then a discovery

First off, my job involves a little bit of driving. Not much but I do have to visit clients now and again.

One day, I nodded off at a stop light. I was woken by the car behind honking his horn.

I drove on in a state of shock. That weekend I told my wife about it and on Monday I told my boss. I felt it was too dangerous now for me to drive anymore. 

My boss did two things.

First, he told me he’d let me take cabs to clients from now on. They were all local businesses.

Second thing: he told me he understood. And then… he revealed why he understood.

Turns out his wife had had sleep apnea for three years before finally getting shot of it. She too used to snore like a bull.

But it was how she got rid of it that made my ears stand up.

Seems she’d had it really bad. She understood the health risks associated with the condition – and they scared the heck out of her. Heart failure, hypertension and strokes were ever-present killers for people with this illness.

Like me, she also tried CPAP – and it hadn’t worked for her either. She couldn’t find a mask that stayed on.

She’d also tried various herbal remedies – which she knew stood no chance of working (since sleep apnea is a muscle problem, not a dietary one) but that’s how desperate she was to tackle the condition.

About four years ago she met a natural health practitioner at a conference and told him about her sleep problem.

He smiled as she explained her situation… then handed her his business card, telling her he had a treatment for sleep apnea that would change her life.

At the time she thought that was quite a grand claim. Turns out though… he was right.

A complete turnaround

My boss told me that the health practioner’s name was Christian Goodman. He has a long track record with completely reversing illnesses and conditions that drugs and surgery couldn’t budge.

His method was fairly straightforward: ignore symptoms and, instead, go directly to the deep, underlying cause of the problem – and attack that.

His rationale was that if you could remove the cause of an illness then that illness couldn’t exist any more.

Unlike a lot of modern medicine his first port of call isn’t a drug or a procedure that tackles symptoms. Instead, he goes for a deep understanding of why the condition exists in the first place.

He asks, What makes this illness possible in the first place? What happens in the body for this illness to occur?

The answer to those questions is the start of his quest for a treatment that – as he says – changes people’s lives.

Choking in our sleep

What medical science already knows about sleep apnea is that it’s caused by constricted airways. The path for air to go into our bodies becomes blocked. We’re struggling to breathe and find ourselves choking in the process.

Starved of air our brain panics. It wakes us up enough to force us into breathing again… and we go back to sleep.

In sleep apnea this repeats dozens of times an hour. And we often barely notice it.

Tense… then too relaxed

Muscles around our mouth, throat, tongue, jaw and neck tense and release in order to do different things.

They’re fairly tense in the day as they support movement, speech, breathing and so on. At night we sleep… and so they relax.

However, too much tension or relaxing can cause all sorts of problems. By over-relaxing at night they fall back into the throat… and cover the airways that allow you to breathe air into your lungs.

You become – quite literally – oxygen-deprived.

And that forces your heart to beat more strongly in an attempt to get more air through a narrower air path.

When it fails to get the air through – as it eventually does –  the brain goes into panic-mode and wakes you up just enough to force-start your breathing.

And this is what is killing us. A strongly beating heart doesn’t make it fitter. It enlarges and weakens it. Instead of resting at night, the heart is stressed. Which in turn is a prime cause of nighttime heart attacks.

The threat of heart disease scared the life out of me.

And so did the possibility of brain damage. I found out the restricted flow of oxygen to the brain can lead directly to the impairment and gradual death of brain cells.

Sleep apnea is – I discovered – a serious, serious threat to life and health.

Yet Christin Goodman has no difficulties treating it. So how does he get results that almost none of the mainstream medical profession ever manages?

I can tell you. Because I ordered his program and I found out. 

Singing… and a didgeridoo

Actually, Christian doesn’t sing (that I know of) and I’m guessing he doesn’t play the didgeridoo.

But here’s an incredible thing… most professional or semi-professional singers do not have sleep apnea. Nor do most didgeridoo players.

In fact, singing or playing any kind of wind instrument to a semi-professional level prevents sleep apnea.

How come?

It’s because serious practitioners of these arts practise daily breathing exercises.

They train their throats, tongues and necks in order to sing or play better.

And in doing so they strengthen and tighten the muscles involved in their music… which also happen to be the same muscles that maintain our breathing airways.

What Christian Goodman did was take these exercises and develop and expand on them to create a program for tackling dangerous, life-threatening sleep apnea.

His program is called the ‘Stop Snoring and Sleep Apnea Program’.

No matter which muscles were causing my sleep apnea… there were breathing exercises that would specifically address them.

I didn’t even have to know which muscles were the culprits. The program took care of them all.

Be clear though: I didn’t have to sing or play the didgeridoo to get well again! (Thank goodness.) I simply had to do those exercises.

Actually, it took Christian some time to work out the optimum program. He practised with dozens of real-life sleep apnea sufferers.

He had early successes in dramatically reducing sleep apnea.  But it took four months of tweaking his exercises before he was able to successfully treat one sufferer after another – and to be sure they were never going to have another sleepless night.

Once he’d cracked it there was no going back. His program has been running virtually unchanged now for more than 10 years. And thousands of people swear by it.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that I’m one of them!

So how does it do it?

Each exercise in Christian’s ‘Stop Snoring and Sleep Apnea Program’ targets a specific muscle in the throat, tongue, face, jaw or neck.

Whichever muscles are causing sleep apnea, this program hits them head-on.

Practise the exercises for a few days and those muscles start to reshape, tighten and regain proper functioning.

These newly healthy muscles help you breathe quietly, without snoring – and without waking up even once.

Sleep apnea simply doesn’t stand a chance!

What’s on television?

I do most of my exercises sitting down watching television. My wife can be sitting next to me on the couch and not even know I’m doing them.

I’ve also done them in some strange places. Waiting in line. Watching a presentation at work. In the bathroom.

Minutes at a time

They take minutes to complete. Literally minutes.

Christian breaks the full program down into small chunks so that you can choose a version that suits whatever time you have available.

Being the cautious type I started with the 3 minute program – just 4 exercises. Between them though they work directly on all the muscles involved with obstructing your airways.

I progressed to the 7 minute program a couple of days later and then, on day 7, I did the 12 minute program.

I split that one – 6 minutes on the way to work and 6 minutes at my desk.

Occasionally I’d do the lot in the evening while watching tv. It was easy.

Here’s what happened.

Everything changed – in days

My wife said I woke less on only the third day of doing these exercises. I didn’t disbelieve her but… three days? After years of struggle?

On day 8 she said I slept all through without waking once. Not once. I didn’t snore, I didn’t struggle for breath. I barely stirred all night.

Now that I believed. Because the next morning I woke up feeling very different. It was like something that had been covering my entire body, weighing me down… had been lifted.

After a few more days of peaceful, refreshing sleep I felt incredibly awake and alive – in a way that’s difficult to explain.

And I knew it was because I was now sleeping the whole night through. Without snoring and without interruption.

Fast forward to today

I can barely remember what sleep apnea felt like now.

It’s effects were horrible. The side-effects can  – and often are – deadly. Yet it’s all a distant memory now. I was sleeping like a lamb in under two weeks. I don’t think I’ve snored or lost a wink of sleep in the 2 years since then.

I won’t go on and on about how much better life is now. Deep, reliable sleep is the most rejuvenating, refreshing, life enhancing thing a person can have. It’s better than food, music and drink.

But now that I sleep soundly throughout the night. I’ll say these two things:

One, that I feel absolutely wonderful. I’m alive, cheerful with plenty of energy and drive. My focus is absolutely tip-top, I remember things again and I’ve got my wits back.

I lost weight – 8lbs to be precise. Without dieting. Turns out that sleep deprivation messes with body chemicals and makes you fat.

I am no longer on the danger list for strokes, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart attack or brain damage.

Sleep not only massively improves life… but also prolongs it.

The second thing is this: that I’m so glad I heard about Christian Goodman. I’m so glad I decided to treat my sleep apnea when I did.

This condition doesn’t stand still – it gets progressively worse. I don’t know what state I’d been in today if I hadn’t decided ‘enough is enough’ and finally taken some action.

So – what about you?

There are thousands of us who have used Christian’s program to treat our sleep apnea. Our lives have changed beyond all recognition.

So have the lives of our spouses. We all sleep soundly now. Where my snoring was ruining my wife’s sleep – and therefore also subjecting her to the health risks of sleep deprivation – I now sleep silently. I don’t make a sound.

Tens of thousands of former sleep apnea sufferers no longer spend our dollars on powders and tablets that don’t get anywhere near making us better.

And we don’t struggle with devices and contraptions designed to force us into better sleeping positions.

We don’t spend weeks and months trying to sleep with a mask clamped to our faces…. while a machine forces air into throats that are too tight to breathe through.

Instead, we enjoy peaceful, sleep-filled nights. Which means we have wide-awake, energetic days.

Brains are alert and focused. We’re optimistic and cheerful.

And we’re far less likely to end up with life-shortening illnesses.

If you like the sound of that for your own life then why not join us?

We all want peaceful sleep and easier days. Great health is a gift – and it comes from blissful sleep.

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What isn’t addressed gets worse

One thing I realized once I was diagnosed: I couldn’t just continue as if I wasn’t ill. The daily misery was unsustainable. And the health risks were far too great.

Every night with sleep apnea is another day of tiredness, irritable moods and poor focus.

Every night with sleep apnea is also another night closer to substantially worse illnesses.

As my snoring ruined our sleep and tiredness weighed on us both, my relationship with my wife became tense at times. My performance at work became a little more sluggish and life was fast losing any happiness.

If I hadn’t got to grips with the problem once and for all I don’t know where I’d be now.

I’m glad I didn’t find out. I stopped snoring two years ago. I’ve slept wonderfully ever since – so has my wife. I sincerely recommend you don’t wait to see how bad this can get…

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Sleep apnea is a route to early death

One piece of news my GP gave me when she told me about sleep apnea was that the strain on the heart caused by poor nighttime breathing proved fatal in some cases. Sleep apnea causes heart attacks.

It’s also deeply implicated in hyper-tension, metabolic conditions, type 2 diabetes and strokes.

Put short: sleep apnea is life-shortener. It can kill us outright. Or it can give us a condition – like strokes – that either kill us or ruin us.

Sleep apnea is a nasty piece of work.

You don’t have to suffer it a minute longer than you choose to.

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