{"id":164342,"date":"2023-05-21T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-found-a-drug-that-relieves-daytime-sleepiness-and-its-not-caffeine"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:22:24","slug":"scientists-found-a-drug-that-relieves-daytime-sleepiness-and-its-not-caffeine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-found-a-drug-that-relieves-daytime-sleepiness-and-its-not-caffeine","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Found a Drug That Relieves Daytime Sleepiness \u2014 And It\u2019s Not Caffeine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-found-a-drug-that-relieves-daytime-sleepiness-and-its-not-caffeine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of us will be familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/being-tired-or-fatigued-is-common-but-here-s-when-you-should-worry\">feelings of sluggishness<\/a> and lethargy in the afternoon, but for those with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Obstructive_sleep_apnea\">obstructive sleep apnea<\/a> (OSA), the problem is more severe.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, researchers have now identified a drug that offers a good chance of helping. And no, it doesn\u2019t come in espresso form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Excessive_daytime_sleepiness\">Excessive daytime sleepiness<\/a> (EDS) for people who have OSA can severely affect daily life. It means having overwhelming urges to sleep at inappropriate times \u2013 while driving or eating, for example \u2013 and often struggle to complete simple tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us will be familiar with feelings of sluggishness and lethargy in the afternoon, but for those with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the problem is more severe. Fortunately, researchers have now identified a drug that offers a good chance of helping. And no, it doesn\u2019t come in espresso form. Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}