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Journey to repair his sleep and improve his health. a trucker with a a decent nights sleep hes hoping his sleep study can get him back on the road to rest. all this talk about sleep got me thinking about my own sleeping habits. im busy, i have three kids, i work at the hospital, i work at cnn, i travel a lot so just how bad are my sleeping habits? i decided to come to the sleep center here in atlanta to try to figure out maybe we can all learn something. ive done overnight sleep studies before, ...

As a child, he was a competitive figure skater, on the ice early, every morning before school. >> i would be skating from, you know, 3:30 in the morning to 7:30 and then go to school. after that, cheerleading practice and then homework and then back to the rink for more training. you know, eventually i would be sleeping at night that they just figured that i just needed sleep when i could get it. >> danielle was falling asleep frequently and fast, which brings us to our next closed captioning is...

Like at least five doctors standing around my bed and they were asking me questions like do you feel dizzy, do you feel light-headed, do you have shortness of breath. i didnt know why they were asking me these questions. >> when the doctors checked his blood oxygen levels, they were way below normal, so they recommended a sleep study to find out why. the result was obstructive sleep apnea. >> obstructive sleep apnea, for example, afflicts 24% of adult males and 9% of adult females. the tranquili...

Your reaction time was 216 milliseconds, the median, which is excellent. this is like fighter pilot range. now what did the nap do? you went from 216 milliseconds to 200. so your median improved by almost 10% in terms of your speed. >> so the 15 minutes o of stage two sleep in the middle of my day seemed to have an impact. >> bingo. >> i have my results. now its glens turn. its mid-morning. the day after his sleep study. >> good morning. >> hes back to find out if his weight loss of 100 pounds h...

Compare to the clinics report. >> i thought i slept well. >> actually you did sleep really well. >> reporter: how much sleep did i get? the doctor says i got seven hours and 34 minutes of total sleep. the s plus is closes at 7:41, jawbone 8.01, but the basis added 48 minutes extra time. in the makers say an independent study showed the device was 90% accurate on nine out of ten nights compared to a medical grade sleep study. next how many times did i wake up? stanford says i had 25 wake events. ...

From the consumer devices compare to the clinics report. >> i thought i slept well. >> actually you did sleep really well. >> reporter: how much sleep did i get? the doctor says i got seven hours and 34 minutes of total sleep. the s plus is closes at 7:41, the jawbone, 8:01. but the basis added 48 extra minutes of time. in the makers say an independent study showed the device was 90% accurate on nine out of ten nights compared to a medical grade sleep study. next how many times did i wake up? st...

If you drink alcohol, stop drinking alcohol, and if youre obese lose weight. all of those things will decrease your sleep apnea and on top of that get a sleep study and if a slope study shows you have this problem try to use that cpap mask. its difficult and life saving. >> this mask, if youve seen, it looks like a spacesuit, and its a bit uncomfortable. about a year ago we talked about something called prevent, a band-aid which you put around the nostril which was a one-way valve. try that. abo...

Olympic winter games ever, with the most coverage of the most events on every device. and the most hours of streaming video on the nbc sports live extra app, including the x1 platform from xfinity. comcast was honored to bring every minute of every medal of nbcuniversals coverage to every screen. so whats next? rio 2016. welcome to whats next. comcast nbcuniversal. no joke. a sleep study before the clocks spring forward tonight. not getting enough sleep could be really bad for your health. a n...

2011. the idea was they were meant to prevent you from moving into overdrawn territory. it looks like bla wants to tighten up on lending practices toward those maybe who are not managing their accounts appropriately, brian. >> i know you handle yours appropriately. have a good weekend. lets move to twitter. a new sleep study explains why its so important. sleep allows our brains to get rid of gunk. that was the term uses, gunk, that builds up while we are awake. how dirty is your brain? tweet yo...

About several items in the news today. i appreciate your perspective and your context. thank you very much. a new sleep study putting into motion one goal in mind, help our men and women in uniform kick a growing dependence on sleeping pills. [ bird chirping ] ♪ ♪