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Perimenopause and Sleep
Physician-authored education on how the perimenopause transition can affect sleep, why these changes happen, and what may help.
Why Sleep Gets Harder in Your 40s: And Why It Is Not Just Stress
There is a version of this conversation I have regularly. A woman in her mid-forties comes in describing sleep that has become unreliable over the past year ...
Perimenopause and SleepPerimenopause, Sleep, and the Limits of Sleep Hygiene
Most of the women I see with significant perimenopausal sleep disruption have already asked for help. They have usually spoken with a primary care physician,...
Perimenopause and SleepPerimenopause, Cortisol, and the “Wired-but-Tired" Sleep Loop
One of the most common descriptions I hear from women in perimenopause is not simply, “I cannot sleep.” It is more specific than that. It is usually some ver...
Perimenopause and SleepThe 3 AM Wake-Up: What’s Actually Happening in the Perimenopausal Brain
A particular experience shows up consistently in the histories of women with perimenopausal sleep disruption: they fall asleep without much difficulty, sleep...