That night I couldn't sleep. How do ankles just... fail? At 2 AM, I found research from the American College of Rheumatology that changed everything:
"Ankle joints receive 68% less blood flow than other joints due to distance from the heart. During sleep, this drops to 23% normal circulation."
The study called it "Nocturnal Joint Hypoxia" - your joints suffocating while you sleep.
Not only do ankles suffocate — the throbbing pain keeps you awake, preventing even the tiny bit of healing your body could do. No sleep = no repair. No repair = worse pain tomorrow.
It’s a vicious loop that traps millions.
Think about it:
- Pills mask the pain, destroy your stomach, never fix blood flow.
- Surgery - $93,000 later and she still couldn’t walk.
- Injections 27 times — and the pain always came back.
- Physical therapy moves joints but doesn't address blood flow
Everything failed because nobody addressed the root cause: oxygen-starved joints. That’s why Patricia’s pain kept coming back, no matter what she tried.
Meanwhile, every single night, your ankles suffocate for 8 hours.
That's 2,920 hours per year of oxygen starvation.
Imagine losing 2,920 hours every single year to joint suffocation. That’s the hidden reason why even expensive surgeries and injections fail — they can’t fight the nightly oxygen blackout.