CPAP Is Sexy: How Treating Sleep Apnea Restores Energy, Intimacy, and Life - Couverture rigide

Patel MD, Yatin J

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798952189027

Editeur : Patel Press, 2026

Synopsis

Regain the Energy, Intimacy, and Life That Sleep Apnea Has Been Stealing

“Doc, it feels like I went to sleep at twenty-five and woke up at fifty-two.”

After 30 years of treating thousands of patients as a sleep physician, Yatin J. Patel, MD, has heard some version of this statement over and over. Patients come in feeling as if decades have been stolen. Some have partners who have lain awake beside them, listening to snores, then the scary silence while they counted the seconds until they gasped in their sleep.

About one in three adults in the U.S. has sleep apnea. Roughly 40 million of those have moderate-to-severe sleep apnea, and most go undiagnosed. They blame aging, stress, menopause, or a bad mattress. What they are losing is memory, patience, desire, and the person their partner married.

In CPAP Is Sexy, board-certified pulmonary and sleep physician Dr. Patel makes the case almost no one makes: Diagnosing and treating sleep apnea is not just about preventing heart attack or stroke decades from now. It’s about treatment so you can see overall life improve within weeks, not years. It’s about seeing desire for your partner spark again after finally getting restorative rest. It’s about handing you back a piece of yourself you thought might be gone forever and building richer moments in your life now.

With patient stories, tricks, and tips in every chapter, learn:

• The stories of real patients like Big Jim, the trucker who stabbed himself with a pin to stay awake at the wheel and turned his days around with treatment.
• Why for decades exhausted women were prescribed antidepressants instead of sleep studies.
• Why today’s smaller, quieter CPAP equipment bears little resemblance to the machines many people still fear.
• The five-step CPAP desensitization protocol, for anyone who tried a mask, panicked, and quit.
• How consistent sleep apnea treatment can bring back the intimacy in your relationship.

Sleep apnea is common, often missed, and highly treatable. Whether you’re avoiding a sleep study, have a CPAP collecting dust, or lie awake beside someone who stops breathing at night, it’s time to see how better breathing and restorative sleep can bring energy, mental sharpness, and intimacy back to your life.

Your new life starts tonight with CPAP Is Sexy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yatin J. Patel, MD, is a board-certified pulmonary and sleep physician, author, speaker, and creator of the AEI∞ Framework. During 30 years of clinical practice in Goshen, Indiana, he founded the Sneeze & Snooze Clinic and built an accredited four-bed sleep center at Goshen Hospital, where he and his team served thousands of patients.

He describes his work simply: He is a sleep physician who doesn't care about sleep. What he cares about is energy, intimacy, and life. His AEI∞ Framework describes how rectangular alertness, a steady wakefulness that holds from morning to night, enhances emotional intelligence and expands information intelligence, opening capacity for selfless service and spirituality.

In 2000, he founded Stay Awake, Drive Safe, a drowsy-driving campaign that has reached schools, colleges, employers, and highway rest areas for more than two decades. His latest book is CPAP Is Sexy: How Treating Sleep Apnea Restores Energy, Intimacy, and Life.

Learn more at dryatinjpatel.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Patel Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798952189027
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible