Refer Your Patients for At-Home Sleep Testing
A simple pathway for naturopathic doctors
You're already treating fatigue, weight, mood, blood sugar and hormone concerns. When breathing during sleep is part of the picture, those protocols stall. NaviSleep offers multi-night, physician-interpreted home sleep testing so you can rule sleep-disordered breathing in, or out, before layering on more.
Submit a referral using our secure online form:
👉 Complete the Online Referral Form
📄 Download our Sleep-Disordered Breathing Screening Tool for NDs
Sleep isn't just rest. It's a root cause.
Quality sleep depends on continuity: moving through each stage, cycle after cycle, without being pulled out of it. Many things disrupt sleep, but poor breathing trumps them all.
When the airway narrows, carbon dioxide rises, oxygen dips and the work of breathing climbs. The brain responds with a survival reflex, a brief arousal to restore breathing. Repeated through the night, those arousals fragment sleep, often without the patient ever knowing.
Sleep-disordered breathing through an ND lens
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a spectrum, from snoring and increased upper-airway resistance through to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Wherever a patient sits on it, the effects reach nearly every system you treat:
- Cardiometabolic: blood pressure, blood sugar and weight
- Endocrine and hormonal: cortisol, insulin and sex hormones
- Neuro and mood: focus, memory, anxiety and low mood
- GI and reflux
- Inflammation and immunity
- Women's health: perimenopause and SDB overlap often, and conventional care routinely misses it
Consider referring patients with
- Snoring or witnessed breathing pauses
- Unrefreshing sleep or daytime fatigue
- Morning headaches or dry mouth
- Waking at night gasping, or often to urinate
- Insomnia with a possible breathing component
- Fatigue, weight or mood changes in perimenopause
Why NaviSleep
- Multi-night at-home testing with the NaviWatch, worn on the wrist with a finger probe
- Every study interpreted by a licensed sleep physician
- Virtual consultation to walk your patient through results
- Airway-focused care, with onward referral to the right treatment
- Consultations available in English and French
Two ways to refer
1. You refer
Submit your referral through the medical/dental referral form.
2. Your patient self-refers
Send them to www.navisleep.com and ask them to complete the "Do I need a Sleep Study?" assessment.
No fax, no portal login.
What happens next
- The device is mailed to your patient
- Your patient tests at home over 7 nights
- Your patient mails the device back, prepaid label included
- Results and virtual consultation at about 3 weeks, with a summary report sent to you
Airway First: Sleep-Disordered Breathing for Naturopathic Doctors
An online course for NDs, covering sleep architecture and quality, why breathing disrupts sleep, the airway and the SDB spectrum, and SDB’s effects across body systems.
Refer a Patient Take the Course
Questions or a case to talk through? info@navisleep.com | 506-300-0707
Angela Hoffman, RRT, CRE, Founder and Clinical Director, NaviSleep Respiratory Solutions Inc., Sackville NB
