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Cartoon letter 'e' with jet of flame streaking across the sky with stars in the background and title text Empowered Sleep Apnea by Dr David E. McCarty

If You’ve Just Been Diagnosed With Sleep Apnea, Empowered Sleep Apnea Is A Good Place To Start

If you’ve been following my health journey for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that I’ve tried a lot of things to recover my energy and vitality. Being diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea was a major turning point for me, but it was also the start of a new quest to find an effective treatment for the condition that would work for me. There are so many options to consider, and even going with the default recommendation of my sleep specialist to just use CPAP didn’t turn out to be trivial.

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By Graham Stoney, ago

Using Forward-Pull Face Mask With a Vivos DNA Appliance

I first came across the idea of a forward-pull face mask on The Great Work Forum in a thread discussing using face mask with MSE for adult expansion. I didn’t end up pursuing MSE, but I thought that if face mask helped MSE users get forward growth, maybe it would help me get more forward growth with Vivos too.

Dr Felix Liao mentions using face mask with DNA appliance patients in his talk at the Vivos Breathing Wellness conference and gives some case reports in his book 6 Foot Tiger, 3 Foot Cage, which I really recommend to anyone with obstructive sleep apnea who is wondering what to do about it. There is a classic line in the talk at 51:51 where Dr Liao presents a patient who said:

“I have a new girlfriend. I’d would rather sleep with her instead of my CPAP.”

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By Graham Stoney, ago