Life Stages / Perimenopause & Menopause
Hormonal sleep disruption guidance, mechanism to safety — why estrogen and progesterone shifts disrupt sleep, and what's safe to try or discuss with a clinician.
This article explains why Floridians often experience disrupted sleep when the NHC announces a tropical disturbance, even with low formation odds, by examining three interconnected pathways—physiological, psychological, and environmental—and offers grounded perspective on managing storm-season sleep quality.
The 2026 AASM guideline update brings important changes for chronic insomnia treatment, including a new recommendation for combination therapy, the expansion of digital CBT-I, and a better understanding of orexin-blocking medications — all without replacing CBT-I as the foundation of care.
Specific nursery design choices — such as light management, temperature control, crib positioning, and noise — have measurable effects on how much and how safely an infant sleeps. This guide presents the evidence behind each decision so you can create a sleep-friendly nursery with confidence.
If you live in New York City, you've likely noticed worse sleep on high-pollution days. This article explains the biological mechanisms behind that link and outlines evidence-based countermeasures you can take.
Wondering if pasta at dinner helps or harms your sleep? This article examines the evidence on carbohydrate timing, pasta type, and portion size to give you a clear, nuanced answer.
Understand how your child's sleep evolves from infancy through adolescence—what's normal at each stage, when to seek help, and how to support healthy sleep across five developmental phases.
Sleep problems affect up to 47% of perimenopausal women and are driven by four distinct biological pathways — not just night sweats. This guide explains the hormonal, circadian, and cognitive mechanisms behind perimenopause sleep disruption, identifies associated sleep disorders including underdiagnosed OSA, and presents an evidence-graded treatment hierarchy from CBT-I through hormone therapy and non-hormonal options.
Learn how to assess whether it is safe to sleep during a flood warning using a four-factor decision framework. This guide explains the critical difference between watches and warnings and how to prepare an evacuation-ready sleep environment.
Explains why anxiety-driven hyperarousal, not environmental noise, is the real barrier to sleep during severe weather and provides evidence-based techniques to calm the brain's threat response.
This article explains the biological mechanisms by which sleep—especially slow-wave sleep—directly accelerates ligament, tendon, and cartilage repair after a knee injury, and why insufficient sleep can prolong inflammation, increase pain, and undermine rehab.
During the 2025–2026 norovirus surge, sleep deprivation may significantly increase infection risk. This article examines the converging evidence linking short sleep to compromised immune defenses and explains why improving sleep quality is a legitimate prevention strategy.
Wildfire smoke in Spokane concentrates during overnight and early-morning hours due to temperature inversions, directly overlapping with sleep and reducing sleep quality. This article explains why this predictable pattern disrupts your sleep, how many days of disruption to expect, and practical steps you can take tonight.
