45. Why Your Sleep Feels Different After 40

About this episode

This episode explores the reasons why sleep changes in midlife, focusing on hormonal shifts and their impact on sleep quality.

If your sleep feels lighter…easier to disrupt…or just not as restorative as it used to, you’re not imagining it. In this episode, we continue the series “What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You” and take a step back to look at why sleep changes in midlife. Because this isn’t about one single issue. It’s about how the entire system is shifting. We walk through four key reasons sleep starts to feel different: • Progesterone decline and less deep, restorative sleep • Cortisol rhythm becoming ...

People in this episode

Host: Tanya Pennington-Miller

Topics covered

• sleep changes
• midlife health
• hormonal shifts
• restorative sleep
• cortisol rhythm

Keywords

• sleep
• midlife
• hormones
• progesterone
• cortisol
• restorative sleep
• health

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