In 2023, Mitchell Miller, a sleep medicine doctor based in Clearwater, Florida, received a visit from an unusual patient. One of the lesser-known health conditions associated with the disorder is sleep apnea: Patients with EDS face a sixfold increased risk compared to the general population. Miller’s patient “had a complete resolution of her sleep apnea,” he says. In recent years, the need for better approaches to treating sleep apnea has become increasingly apparent. “There’s definitely a need for less cumbersome treatments,” says Thomas Gaisl, a pulmonologist at University Hospital Zurich studying sleep apnea.