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“You cannot expect a brain to perform at its best when sleep is being interrupted hundreds of times a night,” Dr. Muhammad Usama, a sleep medicine physician, told The Epoch Times.
For children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), sleep-disordered breathing is often an overlooked explanation. Yet it is rarely checked during diagnosis.
Not Just a Breathing Problem
Sleep-disordered breathing is abnormal breathing during sleep, ranging from habitual snoring to sleep apnea, in which the airway repeatedly narrows or collapses.
Zena le Roux
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Zena le Roux is a health journalist with a master’s in investigative health journalism and a certified health and wellness coach specializing in functional nutrition. She is trained in sports nutrition, mindful eating, internal family systems, and applied polyvagal theory. She works in private practice and serves as a nutrition educator for a UK-based health school.
