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Hi, Dr. Rutherford here. You know, I get a lot of these classes. I have a lot of mentors who are just really amazing and they keep doing research and I went to a class maybe three years ago. One of the things that you'll hear me say when it comes to these relatively complex cases, by the time a person gets here is sometimes it's not about the sexy stuff. Sometimes it's about really basic stuff like oxygen or blood sugar. I've had people where we've gotten their blood pressure up, gotten enough oxygen to their brain, or extremities and their feet, and their gut. All of a sudden, like all these kind of crazy things started getting better. We have presentations on that same thing with blood sugar so we're going to kind of hit oxygen today from a different angle.

We're going to hit it from sleep. Sleep is very, very, very important to getting well. I could go on with that forever. I wrote a little book I think in 2002, it was called, "Power Health Back to Basics." It really was more for my chiropractic patients who would just kept asking me why they weren't holding their adjustments. I said, well, you eat like crap, you don't sleep, you don't exercise, you know? A bunch of things like that, so sleep's a broad topic but I went to this seminar about three years ago. The doctor made the point about oxygen and blood sugar, I was like, yeah, I already get this. I've been doing this forever. But then he said something I had never heard before.

He said, don't miss the sleep apnea. He said, you missed sleep apnea, you're screwed. You already have no chance of getting this patient where you could get them because people need oxygen. You need oxygen to every cell in your body. Then that went back all the way to my very, very, very, very first class I ever took on functional medicine, which was a really long time ago. The doctor said, if you can't make energy in your cells, you can't get the person well. You can't get them back to balance, a lot of the patients coming in lately. I just want to get back, you can't get homeostasis back because you need these mitochondria in your cells to make oxygen. The mitochondria needs oxygen to make energy so you can get better.

Those of you who hit the wall, I have a good day and I go out and I crashed. This is part of the reason you don't have enough oxygen going into your cells in your mitochondria is just crashing. It's part of the reason, and then the sleep apnea comment by this teaching doctor, I was like sleep apnea, now I have to check everybody for sleep apnea. Like, Oh my God, so I dutifully go home and do these things because these are smart people. Every time I go to these particular people's classes and they say something, it turns out being valuable data. I start checking everybody for sleep apnea. Oh my God. I mean, I think 40% of the people that come in here have sleep apnea, it's on it's on the intake form.

Do you have sleep apnea? Yes. Do you have your C-PAP? Well, yes. Do you use it? Sometimes. I really started to get it because then I started pushing for people to get a little bit friendlier with their C-PAP machines and started really seeing results. Some are miraculous results, some mild results, and moderate results.

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