 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell. First, I hope you've enjoyed some of the interviews that I've been able to have lately. I still plan on doing a lot more interviews as I can get people to come on. I think that it's fascinating seeing what people have done and what people are doing and I'm trying to show you more about Entrepreneurship or blogging or just anything because I think that people are fascinating and I think we can all learn something from everybody Today however, I'm gonna talk about sleeping now. I have mentioned here and there that I sleep horribly I am a very bad sleeper now. This all started back. Okay. Well, okay It started in 1969 the day my dad left for Vietnam in 1969. I pretty much stopped sleeping. Well, I mean that was kind of frightening We knew what Vietnam was I was 10 years old and it was scary knowing that your dad was going to Vietnam And so I had trouble getting asleep where I would just stay up all night long kind of looking out of the back window You know thinking that War was gonna be coming to our shores now stupid as that may sound in today's world back in the day You know, this was all very scary stuff when you're hearing about wars You would just see certain things on TV news, which I never watched until my dad actually went to Vietnam We used to still have things back then where we would have Of all things atomic bomb drills, you know what that is atomic bomb drills You're in school and they say the warning comes here comes the alarm You hear this alarm and you would get Down on your knees and crawl under your desk. That was supposed to protect you against atomic bombs coming from Russia This is what we did In retrospect, it's the silliest thing you could have ever thought of but this is what we did so anyway, I haven't slept well since I was 10 years old and I'm now in my mid fifties and It has gotten worse as I've gotten older. It got to a point where Airways this happens to a lot of people by the way when you start getting into the thirties if you hear more about people who snore a lot or whatever there's usually some kind of blockage and some people don't have sleep apnea from that but a lot do and I have sleep apnea and Basically, what happens is that during the night? quite often I stop breathing and What happens when you stop breathing in your sleep is your body starts to react your body says hey hey We need air so your body starts moving you'll you may kick you may feel your arms you may do whatever and Usually that ends up waking you up and when you end up waking up then you're breathing again and You spend more time working than you do sleeping so a lot of times when I wake up I'm still tired so We've gone with something that is supposed to be kind of a solution and It's better, but it's not perfect and that's basically using well I use a biped but we'll go with CPAP for the moment Now CPAP stands for continuous positive airway pressure And by PAP stands for by level positive airway pressure and basically what happens is that it blows air into your body throughout the night now with a CPAP it starts kind of low and That's supposed to at least give you an opportunity to get to sleep and then the pressure increases as the night goes on and it once it hits its high level it never goes back down and That helps, you know some people pretty well. It's got two issues though one Sometimes you wake up because the pressure is just so strong that you find yourself trying to keep up with it It can be a little difficult and to see PAPs happen to be a little bit noisy And that's hard to block they're noisy because once it reaches this heavy pressure Then it's fighting the mask that you have to wear it I'm going to show you that in a little bit So it can just be kind of noisy and it's hard to get over now a by PAP is a little bit different Because what happens is it may have a high level, but it also has a low level and it has kind of an intermediate level So what it does is as you're breathing in it's a heavier pressure But when you breathe back out it figures out where your breath is coming and it lightens so now you're not fighting all night long now it's more of a natural thing and It's a lot quieter because of that So it's a little easier for some people not everyone qualifies for it though, and it turns out that I did so first I'm going to show you the mask that I have and this is my mask Let's see. How do you hold it? There's my mask and you see I've got the nose thing and I've got the mouth thing a Lot of them today only have the nose But the reason I got the mouth way back when is because I would open up my mouth during the night And what would happen is my throat would get all dry Waking up because of that So I initially got this one here because it had the mouth thing in case I open up my mouth the problem with that was that Same thing the throat would get all dry and whatever now You know beforehand with just the nose things if I open up my mouth It meant I wasn't taking any new area and and that meant I you know slept badly but with this thing initially what would happen is that I would open up my mouth at a certain point and then my throat would Get all sticky and that would wake me up. So I had switched from this one to a different brand and The reason I went with the different brand is because it had this little extra thing under here That actually encouraged you to keep your mouth shut And I ran with that bad boy for a year the problem was it wasn't necessarily built with the best construction in the world that bad boy leaked and Then it was too noisy. And so pretty much for a year. I would wear earplugs to sleep now that's slightly problematic because my ears were somewhat they didn't like it and so my ears would itch all day long and Now you can't hear anything. I mean, you know, I would take the phone I have to turn the alarm up loud so that I could hear the alarm to wake me up to go to go to work or to Go to meetings or different things like that I couldn't really hear anything and that's not necessarily a good thing, you know If the house if there was something to happen in the house like you know, water buffalo hit the house Okay, water buffalo is not gonna hit the house, but you never know big foot could show up. Okay, we're just saying that But if something happened in the house, I'm not gonna hear if the alarm goes off I might hear it, but I might not and that's not a safety thing So you want to be able to you know have something at least way back in the day when I ran the fan I could still hear other stuff, but you know, it was just all this stuff. So anyway, I Went back to this mass just recently and the reason I went back to it is because by wearing that thing for a year I have actually trained myself to keep my mouth shut during the night There it is. I could probably go back to the nose things, but I got to tell you the truth I probably won't because I keep having this image and this is just on me of the last day my dad was alive and we were in the hospital an emergency room and he had just these things and Mentally kind of freaks me out. So I'm just telling you that's just my reality Anyway, let me show you this because people say you can't really sleep in this and I'm gonna show you, you know Really what it's about now. Here's the thing. I can't really talk well in it So if you can't hear me understand me. There you go But this is just to show you real quick and by the way, it's not attached Because I don't want to haul that thing out of there and bring it in here. So here we go Now that's the whole thing. I don't know if you could hear any of that, but That's pretty much it and the thing is you see this thing rotates and you see this cord here Or this just tube here is flexible and then it goes to a really big thing And because I have a bipap when it also comes with it comes with this reservoir Where you can put water in it and I have a heated tube So I it matches, you know the temperature you can make it a little warmer if you like which they you know It puts more moisture in it. So your nose doesn't dry out if it's really cold temperatures or or whatever It has all these different controls Now with this thing here, I got to tell you the truth When I sleep I sleep a lot better Because my breathing is a lot better and I still have to say that when I sleep because I think that I've got Way over 30 years of bad sleeping habits to the extent that I may not necessarily move as much, but I still do move some I can tell when I've had a really bad night because I wake up in the covers have just gone and that doesn't happen as often But you know, I've got other issues I've got this leg thing that happens and so sometimes that wakes me up and I'm in pain and I have to shift another side and You know when you have trouble sleeping you have some oddities that you have to deal with for instance When I'm ready to go to sleep. I have to be totally covered up except for maybe just my face So if my hand is outside of the cover, I got to pull it back Then I have to get it underpill or whatever so everything has to be under the covers and sometimes you wake up You're not under the covers and now you got to do it again Hey, this is one of those weird things So anyway, the reason I point things like this out is because one if you stop breathing a lot during the sleep You're not going to ever rest well. Some people are going to use something like this and automatically just start sleeping way Way better. So it's something you should at least look at number two Although it's not necessarily a full contributor to you know, some people who die If you know anything about a former football player who went in the Hall of Fame named Reggie White He had some issues and one of the things that is considered as a contributing factor to his dying Was that he had sleep apnea and he had trouble falling asleep as well. Oh, look, I do have my glasses So anyway, this thing about sleep is very important. It really is and you know, I say that as someone who I Think the only time I've ever gotten eight hours sleep in the last few years is when I've taken a see the minifin PM PM and I think I took three of those you're not supposed to do that The most you're supposed to take is to a lot of times I'll take ibuprofen PM because it helps to relieve the pain so that I can sleep a little better a see the minifin PM That makes me groggy sometimes if I don't end up getting at least six hours full sleep Then it leaves me groggy for the rest of the day. And by the way, there's this study out there It says that 500 milligrams of the see the minifin PM is way too much So if I'm taking two of those obviously, it's way too much and who knows how much of that PM stuff Whatever that is is in it. So anyway, I'm just mentioning this about sleep A lot of young folks aren't gonna necessarily think about this all that much But truthfully it happens to them as well my roommate in college when we were both 21 years old He had this problem and this is an issue that he's kind of always had to overcome You know when you have sleeping issues, it's something that contributes to weight gain Yeah, I'm just saying of course the other side happens Also, if you start gaining weight for other reasons sometimes you start to develop sleep at it. It wasn't this just a fun video I did say you know what? I'll talk about almost anything and this one is a health thing. So I thought it was important Anyway, I'm done. I'm Mitch Mitchell. I hope that you've learned something if you have any questions Let me know if you have any comments. Let me know y'all take care