@debbee - Seems like no one has addressed your mention of sleep apnea. Although mild, I want to encourage you to take that as serious as the other things you mention. I believe that apnea is a silent (pardon the pun) killer since it is responsible for so many other health conditions that either cause or exasperate these other conditions (high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, etc.) After go through a sleep test in the hospital over 15 years ago and going over the results with the sleep doctor it reminded me of an old Woody Allen movie about all the cells dressed in white responding to an alarm about another issue... Each time we have a bout of apnea our system recognizes that we stopped breathing and the alarm goes off. This alarm is adrenalin and it shoots cortisol into our system so we take a breath. The havoc on our system repeatably being shocked this way is responsible for the myriad of other serious health issues. I want to encourage you and all Connect readers to take Sleep Apnea very serious and not blow it off. On the other side, another wonderful benefit is that my spouse sleeps well and she even says that the low sound of air she hears is very soothing to her.

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