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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.
Night Sweats, Temperature, and Sleep: Why Being Too Hot Fragments the Night
Sleep depends on shedding heat, and hot flashes disrupt that from the inside. But the awakening usually outlives the thermoregulatory event, and not every ni...
Perimenopause and SleepWhy 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...