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CTP (S3EOctSpecial8) Sleep, Oxygen, And The Real Fix

• Joseph M. Lenard | Christian Activist & Author in Politics • Season 3

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CTP (S3EOctSpecial8) Sleep, Oxygen, And The Real Fix
[BOOKS / AUTHORS Weeks - Week 2 sub-episode 1 (Mon. 20251020)]
We explore how breathing and airway function shape sleep quality, energy, and behavior, and why standard sleep tips fall short without nasal and tongue posture. A myofunctional airway specialist shares practical routines, tech alternatives, and a parent’s path from struggle to better nights.
• Books Authors Weeks focus with Joseph M Leonard
• Introducing Carece and the myofunctional approach
• Why oxygen and nasal breathing drive sleep quality
• Deep sleep as the body’s repair window
• From parenting concerns to therapy discovery
• Sleep and behavior links in children
• The book’s cut-the-fluff, action-first method
• Daily nasal hygiene routines that work
• Non-rinse tech and gels for congestion
• Credentials and scope of practice
• Website resources and free consultations  TheMyOSpot.com  

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to Constitutionalist Politics Podcast, aka C T P. I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard, and that's L-E-N-A-R-D. C T P is your no must, no fuss, just me, you, and occasional guest type podcast. Really appreciate you tuning in. Graham Norton will say, let's get on with the show. Hello everyone. Welcome to Books, Authors Weeks. October of 2025. I had Health Weeks in February 2025. I had a Music Weeks, three of those in the month of March 2025. So here we are, October. I have a lot of fellow authors. I had the chance to have discussions with. So Books Authors Weeks, October 25. Without further ado, let's head into a discussion with a fellow author. Hello, everybody. Welcome to another Christitutionalist podcast, as it says above me for those watching behind the scenes video, BitChute, Brightyon, Dailymotion, Rumble, YouTube, and shout out to the 25 plus audio only platforms. I don't think this is a show that you need to see the video, but we'll see if she has some graphics to show or not soon. And anyway, I I didn't ask you before I hit record what is the proper pronunciation of your name because I'm not even gonna attempt it. I know I get it wrong. Oh well, I I got the first part right anyway. So welcome to the show, Carece. And on my notes here, I have author of the nonfiction book Accomplished How to Sleep Better, Eliminate Burnout, and Execute Goals. Yes. So first let's do the proverbial pun intended Christian show, right? Proverbs, proverbial first question: Where were you born and raised? Where are you now? All that sort of stuff.

SPEAKER_01:

So I am a Jersey girl through and through. I live right now in Florida, but not a Floridian. Very important distinction. Um, yes, I I love New Jersey. I still work in both New Jersey and Florida currently, even though I primarily reside in Florida, and I do myofunctional therapy for everybody everywhere.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, okay. And the obvious first things about better sleep, don't eat a couple hours before bedtime, don't drink coffee or soda with caffeine in a couple hours before bedtime. But I take it you go well beyond that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, yes, yes. So I go more into like the anatomy of it all because surprisingly, all those things, you could do all the tips, all the tricks, you could avoid the caffeine, you could stop using your phone at a certain time, you could be consistent with your bedtime, you could do all those things. And in some cases, it won't make any impact on your sleep quality. It's really important how we breathe or how much oxygen we're able to get into our bodies while we are sleeping. That is really the big differentiator in sleep, and so that's where I come at it with like a different approach.

SPEAKER_00:

That makes sense, right? COPD problems, obvious. I have sinus issues, so I don't have COPD, but that is part of no doubt my problem that sinus issues probably not getting as much oxygen as would be good for me.

SPEAKER_01:

Right, right. Yeah. So people don't know that it's such a big regulator in our sleep. Like when we're sleeping, most of our activity is actually supposed to be shut down. The blood's still pumping, the heart's still working, but it's at a much lower rate. But our breathing, our breathing is really supposed to be relatively level. Our oxygen might drop just a little bit, but when it drops too much, that's when we start seeing things like snoring, tossing and turning, uh, restless leg syndrome, sleep apnea, like all those bigs.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you mentioned level, exactly. I was sinus rhythm. If it's your sinus is part of your head, part of your brain. If that's out of whack, it seems pretty obvious anatomy-wise. If that just fluctuates a little, it can potentially wake up, will likely potentially wake you up.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. And what we don't want is to be woken up or aroused too many times because then we don't get into all the sleep stages, most importantly, getting into that deep sleep. The deep sleep is where all the restorative things happen. Like that's where our brain is finally cleansing, that's where we get cell regeneration, that's where our immune system gets to revive. Like that's where we're really doing the harder work of sleep that wakes us, makes us wake up early and feel wonderful.

SPEAKER_00:

One of my many health issues is sleep, chronic fatigue, immune dysfunction system. So I'm all and I'm not making this up, but it just so happens to be true. I went to bed at 7 p.m. last night, didn't get up till 10 a.m. this morning, so I finally got some sleep I needed.

SPEAKER_01:

Very good, and nothing feels better than like the day once you've gotten a good night of sleep. Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh what? So you've been you were doing these things before the book, yes.

SPEAKER_01:

So, yes, my myofunctional therapy and like how I got into it, because it's something that not a lot of people know about, and I can get into that in just a second. Yeah, I'm not familiar with that term. Yeah, so I really got into it through my children, honestly. It had nothing to do with like me or concerns that I was having about me. As a parent, I was really like heavily focused on some of these issues my kids had, and it was a pediatric dentist that really brought to light for me that how they were breathing, how they were using some of the muscles in the head and neck region, like that had a big impact on their sleep quality, which subsequently impacted them in a multitude of ways. And I won't get into all the nitty-gritty about that just now. But myofunctional therapy is kind of like having a personal trainer for all those muscles in this beautiful head and neck region where we're able to help strengthen and coordinate them. So we eliminate some of the dysfunction that would be present that would be disruptive to breathing patterns and so forth.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, my audience knows I can't pass the lamest of puns. I I have to go there. I am compelled to go there. Myofunctional as opposed to Eurofunctional. And for the benefit of the transcript, we're laughing, right? If the transcript will even get right, the joke to spell that word right so that you'll get the joke, right? I I told that I had to go to the hospital the other day for a test, and beforehand, of course, had to do the blood work thing and the urology lab. So, of course, I couldn't resist urology as opposed to myology, right? Anyway, now that we got that lame, stupid stuff out of the way, so did uh did uh that interaction and then concern for your own kids kind of then lead to hey, I need to write a book for everyone to start to understand this stuff?

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely, absolutely, because what I was seeing in my children was not uncommon. Like, for example, my son, so I have four children, and my son is my oldest, and he had a lot of like emotional and behavior regulation. He had just the all the issues that you could around like ADHD and not being able to focus or socially or self-regulate. And we were seeing a pediatric neurologist for a long time, and that pediatric neurologist gave us three different types of medications, and we went through the gamut of things. But it wasn't until the pediatric dentist that I mentioned earlier, until that pediatric dentist came into our lives and had mentioned sleep, that I had started to mention it to the pediatric neurologist. And the pediatric neurologist was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you never told me he had sleep issues. There's this big correlation between sleep and behavior in children. And so I already knew in that moment that in all that time, in the many months over a year that we had seen that doctor and all the different medications, never once did anybody talk about sleep or breathing and how all of this stuff was related. And so for me, it was became very important that, like, if they're not sharing the information, somebody needs to. So I had to write the book to kind of help and put all of that out there because people talk about sleep and they talk about it like it's easy. If you just had the right mattress or the right pillow, it'll be fine. And that's not true, right?

SPEAKER_00:

And that's uh I just coincidentally, there's those purple mattress people, the ad were the whole uh Snow White thing. I was like, he doesn't kiss her, heaven forbid, we can't have him kiss the princess to awaken her. He just lightly touches her on the cheek and she wakes up and says, I have you know, I have awakened you. No, thanks, I'm good. Back to back to the purple mattress, right? If only it were that simple. Right now, I don't have in the note here what year did that book come out? And look go ahead and give the title again. So, you know, repetition, gotta have repetition.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, accomplished how to sleep better, eliminate burnout, and execute goals. It's available on Amazon, but it came out in 2021. It is just such a labor of love. It's not a thick book because I don't believe in fluff. And I know there are so many books out there with so much fluff, and it's like pages of pages of unnecessary things. It's a book that really cuts to the chase. Here's the problem, here's what you can start to do about it, here's how you can help yourself, and here's the proof that it's worked with others.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I can't resist. You removed the fluff from the mattress. I didn't, I've never thought about it like that. That's funny. You're you're advocating a lumpy mattress. Put on pump. Oh my am I lame at times. Oh dear, dear, dear. So are there uh kind of tips and techniques in the book?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so there are a couple of tips and techniques. I think most consistently it's important for you to have some sort of nasal hygiene routine. Any sort of mouth breathing is going to be bad, particularly at night. I the first stages of sleep are muscle relaxation, and we really need to keep a nice patent open uh upper respiratory tract. And it's very difficult to do so when the mouth is open, the tongue is low and back and like really falling into that space. So we want to make sure we're breathing through our nose, and the best way to prime and do that is through nasal hygiene. And so a nasal hygiene routine is one of the things I mentioned in the book. Like it's really important to just be aware of your breathing. How are you breathing? And how can you help yourself breathe better?

SPEAKER_00:

So speaking of breathing, I just sneezed. For those on the video, you saw that. I I muted though, so you didn't hear it. So I'm gonna use my VIX inhaler. Oh, I love that you have an inhaler. That's awesome. Aromatherapy on the advocate for that, too. Yes, speaking of breathing, yeah. Oh, what is it? Eucalyptus, I think. Yep, eucalyptus in there. There's the candle hidden behind my green screen, eucalyptus mint. Because indeed, yes, with sinus problems, sended candles, the right ones help. Yes, and and and it's often said lavender uh is a good scent for while you're sleeping, eucalyptus for breathing, lavender for sleeping. Yes, do you go into like that in the book?

SPEAKER_01:

A little bit. There's more supplementary stuff on like my website, my blog, and things that people can read and dive deeper. But definitely nasal hygiene, I think, is one of the most important things. People aren't cleaning their nose enough. And so it's really important to make sure you're just cleaning out and clearing out your sinuses. And so any sort of irrigation or rinse or spray that you could use is beneficial on a daily basis because people always think about those things just when they're feeling congested. Those can actually be used as a preventative measure too, to just keep everything nice and open and clean so that we don't have any issues that we have to eat for.

SPEAKER_00:

This is not not an ad for, but I think there's that nervage thing, right? The the sinus prints, yeah. That's you're right. I I know I could benefit from it, but a mental disorder of mine is aquaphobia. Now, I don't know if that's what it's actually called, but yeah, I as a youth had to take baths, couldn't even deal with a shower due to water, right? That sensation of I'm gonna drown. So I could never allow that to flow through my nose. I'd go insane. It'd be like I was felt about being waterboarded.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah. Well, what's great about technology is that we've actually advanced to stages where there's like these little there's a band where you can get some audiology type of sound waves, and those sound waves help clear out your sinuses, and so that's really good. The Sonu band. Probably infrared. Yeah, there's a gel you could use to line the nasal cavity so you don't have to rinse it or flush it, but like there's a multitude of different ways that you could use, you know, technology or some of these newer inventions to do a very similar thing without having to use any sort of saline spray liquid or anything up your nose.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. I'll have to look into the uh headband thing potentially that might help. I I do joke, I I didn't choose the hairdo, the hairdo chose me for those behind the scenes, the bald head. I had leukemia in 2010, so the chemo, so I just keep it shaved now. But where was oh, I I joke because there was a while. If you've got sinus problems, try chemotherapy, you know. As long as it don't a side effect of the chemotherapy curing my cancer. Well, they don't ever say cure, right? I'm stealing remission all these years later. But my allergy issues went away for a while, too. Sadly, they're back now all these years. But for a good seven, eight, nine years after 2010, I went around joking, yeah, you got allergies, go get chemo. It's a little bit of a harsh treatment, but it worked for me anyway for a while. And here, of course, is where that just I am not a doctor, nor do I even play one on TV. Anecdotal evidence means nothing, whether it will work for you or not, blah blah blah blah blah. Right? Yeah, now you yourself, I didn't go into all the letters behind your name. What what what are all those? R D H C O M P M S.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. So I'm a licensed dental hygienist in the state of Florida and in New Jersey, and I'm a certified oral myofunctional practitioner and a myofunctional airway specialist. So I've I've got some certifications and some education behind my name.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I I do have an honorary doctorate, but I don't ask people to call me doctor. So I totally would if I had one. I say that in I even go into that in a recent piece online. I don't have Dr. Joseph M. Leonard on my books, although I legally could. To me, the merit of your argument has to stand on its own. That alphabet doesn't matter. Can you articulate your argument? And does it stand on its own merit?

SPEAKER_01:

Right. Yeah, 100% agreed. You have to have the ability to really state your cause.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, exactly. And is there any follow-up books in the works?

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know. I've thought about that for a long time. Should I do the the next step? And it's really perplexing to me to try to figure out what the next step is. Like after you've had a great night of sleep, like you could do anything.

SPEAKER_00:

So that kind of puts me in the weird. There you go. The next book, what to do while you're awake? Now that I've helped you get a better night's sleep, let me help you do something during your waking day time, right? Okay. I I think you did mention you do have a website.

SPEAKER_01:

What is that website? Themyospot.com. So t-h e my o s p-o-t.com. It's a great website with a lot of education and resources and information about myofunctional therapy for anybody who might be interested. But most importantly, is there's a little button on the website. There's several buttons on the website where you can click to get to schedule a free consultation with me, which is the real value. I will talk to absolutely anybody anywhere about myofunctional therapy at no cost, just to see if it's the right next step for you. Because a lot of people don't realize that sometimes these muscles we don't think about. We all think about the muscles shoulders down anytime we're trying to lose weight or get fit, but it's really these muscles, shoulders that support so many important features of our body that help us to breathe, chew, speak. And we really, really, really need to take care of those muscles too.

SPEAKER_00:

For those behind the scenes, you saw me laugh when she gave her website. Here's why. Again, can't the myo spot as opposed to Hellman's the mayo spot. Oh Lord, stop me before I joke again. Indeed, the myospot.com. Thank you, Caris, for your time. I appreciate you being here and helping with us. Because, yeah, with chronic fatigue, sleep is an issue with and for me. And I wanted my audience to have a chance to hear you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you. For tuning in to books, there will be several different books, authors, several different authors, books, authors, weeks for October of 2025. And remember, you can check out my books at Josephmleonard.us slash shop. And again, Joseph M. Leonard, it looks French. It's French, it's not Lennard, it's Leonard 100. And I have to put the middle initial in there because there is a Joseph Lennard, who is also a Christian author out of South Carolina. So I have to make that distinction. And going in line with books, authors, weeks, I've joked as guests on other shows. I am not he, he is not me, and neither of us will be confused for Shakespeare. And frankly, most writers out there are not going to be confused for Shakespeare. They're not trying to be. Like and subscribe to Christitutionalist Politics Podcast and share episodes. We need your help. Thank you for having tuned in for Christitutionalist Politics Show. If you haven't already, please check out my primary internationally available book, Terror Strike, coming soon to a city near you. Available anywhere books are sold. If you have locally run bookstores still near you, they can order it for you. And let me remind, over time, the fancy high production items will come. But for now, a starter, it's just you, as a very appreciated listener by me, all substance, no flow, just straight to Key Discussion Force, a show that looks at a variety of topics, mostly politics, through a Christian U.S. Constitution. So again, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Take care. God bless.

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