Is Perimenopause Wrecking Your Sleep? Here’s How to Take It Back with Dr. Meredith Broderick

Is Perimenopause Wrecking Your Sleep? Here’s How to Take It Back with Dr. Meredith Broderick

January 21, 2026 · 33 min · Season 9 · Episode 2

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Alison Kole discusses the impact of perimenopause on women's sleep with Dr. Meredith Broderick.

That’s the question millions of women are asking — but most doctors still aren’t answering. In my latest episode of Sleep Is My Waking Passion, I sat down with Dr. Meredith Broderick, MD — a Stanford-trained sleep neurologist and behavioral sleep medicine specialist — to unpack why women’s sleep so often falls apart in perimenopause… and why our healthcare system still treats it like a midlife inconvenience instead of a health crisis. We talk about: 🔹 The real physiological shifts behind 2–3 ...

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