Gregory Arneaud · Sleep

A memoir by Gregory Arneaud

TheWake-UpCall!

How you sleep is how you live

A respiratory therapist’s personal story, and a plain-spoken guide to the sleep problems quietly harming families across the Caribbean and beyond.

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The Wake-Up Call! book cover: Gregory Arneaud in a dark suit, with the title in heavy white letters and the subtitle How You Sleep Is How You Live

Foreword by Dr. Eric Thomas

11:30 PM · The book

A memoir that reads like a house call

The Wake-Up Call! pairs Gregory’s own story with the science of sleep, written for readers who have never set foot in a sleep lab.

It explains how sleep apnea, insomnia and ongoing sleep loss are tied to heart attack, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, sexual health and mental health, and why so many of these cases go unnoticed for years.

His vision for the book is bigger than one reader: he wants doctors, employers and community leaders to treat sleep as part of everyday health care.

  • ChildrenHow sleep shapes a child’s learning, behavior and growth.
  • Your bodyWhy your energy, weight, blood sugar and mood all trace back to the night before.
  • Your mindThe hidden link between poor sleep, stress, depression and long-term illness.
  • CouplesHow partners can stop sleeping in separate rooms and get their closeness back.
  • SnoringWhy snoring is a warning sign, not a family joke.
  • MorningsHow reclaiming your nights changes the way you live your days.

2:47 AM · The silent problem

Snoring is a red flag, not a joke

Gregory has spent more than 25 years in respiratory care, and since 2006 he has tested and treated sleep apnea across Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean. He has seen how few people realize that snoring can signal a condition linked to heart attack, stroke, diabetes and high blood pressure.

What a sleep study sees. The snoring stops, but so does the breathing. Oxygen falls, the body jolts awake for a gasp, and it starts again. Most people never feel a thing.

Time02:47:00
SpO₂96%
AirflowSnoring

Illustrative trace of an obstructive apnea event, drawn for this page. Not patient data.

The scale of it

2M+people in the English-speaking Caribbean living with untreated insomnia or sleep apnea, by his estimate
80+recognized sleep disorders
7–9 hrsthe nightly sleep he recommends for adults

Does any of this sound familiar?

Tap anything you notice, in yourself or in the person who sleeps beside you.

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Nothing selected yet. Most people recognize at least one.

Not a diagnosis. A starting point for a conversation with your doctor.

Gregory Arneaud in a blue checked suit, seated outdoors at sunset with palm trees behind him
Gregory Arneaud · Founder, iSD Health Solutions

4:30 AM · His story

It started with Grandma’s snoring

Gregory grew up in South Florida, raised by Trinidadian parents who kept the islands close. As boys, he and his brother used to laugh at their grandmother’s snoring every night.

Years later, trained as a respiratory therapist, he understood what they had been hearing. He lost her to sleep apnea that was never diagnosed, and later watched his father suffer a stroke. That is the warning this book is written to deliver.

“How you sleep is how you live.”

A U.S. Air Force veteran and American board-certified respiratory therapist, he founded iSD Health Solutions and the Caribbean Sleep Disorders Association, served on the board of the American Sleep Health Foundation, and trains doctors and health workers across the region.

  1. 2006Begins sleep apnea testing in Trinidad and Tobago
  2. 2015World Sleep Day delegate for Trinidad and Tobago
  3. 2023Publishes The Wake-Up Call! and is named SleepTech Talk Podcaster of the Year
  4. 2025Expands iSD Health Solutions to Kingston, Jamaica
  5. 2026Co-hosts The Wake Up Call on 96.1 OJO World
“Sleep, my dear reader, stands as one of God’s marvelous creations.”From the opening of The Wake-Up Call!

5:30 AM · Rest by design

The book opens where Gregory’s own convictions begin: rest is part of how we were made. Even the Creator rested on the seventh day.

Scripture sits alongside sleep science throughout the book, so it speaks as easily to a church study group as to a doctor’s waiting room.

5:52 AM · What readers say

The wake-up calls they got

★★★★★

“I was getting enough ‘sleep’ but still nodding off in meetings… My children were in the car with me. That was the literal wake-up call!”

Reader review · Former Director of Communication, national airline
★★★★★

“Sprinkled with biblical quotes and mixed with personal experience and makes it a compelling read!”

Reader review

“I could also relate to the ‘local’ phases, being a Caribbean national myself.”

Audible listener
Heard and read on The Gleaner 96.1 OJO World SleepTech Talk World Sleep Day

6:00 AM

This is your wake-up call

Read it tonight. Share it with the snorer in your house. Your mornings may never feel the same.

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