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Journey to repair his sleep and improve his health. a trucker with a a decent night's sleep he's 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. i'm 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. i've done overnight sleep studies before, but this time i'll be doing a daytime one. if i can fall asleep at 2:00 in the afternoon, that's...

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 brought to you by sleep train, tidbit. if it takes you less than five minutes to fall asleep at nig...

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 didn't 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 tranquilizers had not been developed. in fact the very first -- >> dr. william demint has been nicknamed the...

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 it's glen's turn. it's mid-morning. the day after his sleep study. >> good morning. >> he's back to find out if his weight loss of 100 pounds has been enough to diminish or even end his sleep apnea and lose the cpap machine. >> we have you...

Compare to the clinic's 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. the s plus says four, jawbone says one and basis zero. according to the doctor stanford detects wak...