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🗓️ 25 October 2022
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0:00.0 | This is the flavor. I am so excited because I actually need one of these. Rebecca Holland's the new CEO at Bleep Sleep, the SNAP CPAP and if people aren't familiar with CPAP and PAP technology, it's been around a long time and it's really believe it or not saved many lives and marriages for a variety of reasons and I wanted first welcome you Rebecca to the playbook. |
0:28.0 | Well, thanks so much. I appreciate the opportunity to be on and it's funny because you have a new product that caught my eye and I think it's just appropriately named the eclipse because I've watched this space. My wife is beg me to participate, but to be quite honest, they're just too uncomfortable for me. The cleaning of it. I'm not as worried about the expense, but I know the expense is another issue for a lot of people and late this quarter, you're going to be |
0:58.0 | launching this incredible new product called eclipse that addresses some of my needs and I was hoping that you could start by talking about CPAP technology, first of all, for those that aren't familiar and then telling everyone what differentiates the eclipse from previous technologies out there. Sure, I'd love to. So sleep apnea is one of the main issues that is affecting a lot of individuals. How many people? |
1:26.0 | It's about 50% of women ages 20 to 7 and about one in four men from over 40. So large amount of the population has undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea. |
1:40.0 | The most common treatment is a pressure mask. It's forced air pressure that allows you to get more continuous sleep at night so that you're not waking up from a stop start of air coming in. |
1:56.0 | When you look at this, you think about why should I care about this, right? If you're an individual, you know, from a health standpoint, about 80% of nighttime strokes are caused by untreated sleep apnea. |
2:09.0 | When we look at it from a work force standpoint, it costs the US about 150 billion annually in motor vehicle accidents or 10 times more likely to get into a motor vehicle accident in loss of work loss of predictivity. |
2:25.0 | You have a significant increase in hypertension by 45%. When we look at it from mental health, 2.75 increase in suicide ideation, over three times increase in depression. |
2:40.0 | So there's a lot of, and I would also tell you, 71% of type 2 diabetics have untreated sleep apnea. So it's very prevalent. It's very costly. The impact on your productivity and health is large. So when we look at the treatment, common treatment is a sleep apnea mask, a CPAP mask. |
3:01.0 | And it hasn't changed. You know, if we think about the last, you know, 40 years, you're looking at a mask that goes over your nose, often, you know, there'll be product that goes up into your nose, multiple headgears going around your head and your face. |
3:16.0 | So here's how you wake up one, they all leak and you're waking up in the middle of the night with dry eye or over tightening. You get you're getting marks on your face. You're getting skin ulcerations around your nose, your hair is balding and matting. I mean, you really don't let wake up looking great. |
3:31.0 | We've, you know, we thought there's got to be a better way. So we developed a product that is the smallest mask on the market. It is about a third this size of, you know, our prior mask. So super tiny. So we think about the biggest complaints people have in terms of using the product claustrophobia. It's not in your sight line. |
3:56.0 | No skin ulcerations. No headgear at all. So you're not getting the lines on your face to cosmetic issues. You're not getting pain in your neck or your face from, you know, from head to your polling. |
4:07.0 | So we really eliminate, you know, about 20 to the top 22 complaints that CPAP customers have. |
4:15.0 | This is something that we applied to the National Institute of Health to get some funding on. It would be, I would say it's rare. I can't think of another CPAP company. And again, if you think around being around for 40 years that has received a grant, we received a $1.7 million grant to develop the product because there's such a high need to address, you know, these comfort issues that patients have. |
4:40.0 | So it clips is coming out. We say, you know, we're bringing sexy back to CPAP. You can look gorgeous again. And it's the only product on the market clinically proven not to leak. So it's quiet. |
4:51.0 | And one of the other issues is keeping it clean. And I assume there's some differentiators there as well, because it's smaller without all the mechanisms that it actually has an easier way of cleaning it and it stays clean because it's not leaking. |
5:08.0 | Yeah. So if we look at, there's two parts in essence for, you know, all of the, you know, all of the nasal pillow mask, which is a category we're in. |
5:16.0 | You have your nasal pillows, which is the part for other companies that it's either going around your nose or actually up into your nose. I'm not comfortable. |
5:24.0 | And then you have the mask. Our nasal pillows are a nightly disposable. So they are, you know, has a metal piece that's recyclable. |
5:32.0 | And it's a biodegradable, you know, medical surgical medical grade tape that we use for the adhesive. |
5:38.0 | It is super small. It is flat to your nostrils and, you know, secures on each night and you throw it away the next morning. |
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