If i go to sleep now free#

Given all that’s happening during this stage of life, it’s hardly a surprise that sleep is particularly complicated. So many of my patients (and readers) fall into this age range. These years are some of the most challenging for sleep. Often, you don’t sleep all the way to dawn, waking way ahead of your alarm, wishing you could grab that extra 45 minutes or hour of rest.

You wake at least once or twice a night-sometimes to go to the bathroom, sometimes just because. You go to bed exhausted but still have trouble falling asleep. Then, somewhere in your later 40s or 50s, sleep started to get…wonky. You slept like a log in your 20s, and pretty well in your 30s, maybe even into your early 40s. It helps to know what to expect from sleep during these years. In order to sleep well and reap the benefits and protections of high-quality rest, we’ve got to pay attention to sleep on a daily basis.

If i go to sleep now free#

If young adulthood gave some of us a hall pass when it comes to paying attention to sleep and investing time and attention in cultivating sleep habits, well…middle age is when that free ride typically ends. Changes to hormones that influence sleep and circadian rhythms, greater risk for presence of health conditions that interfere with sleep, and the presence of chronic stress are some of the most common reasons why sleep tends to become more challenging the older we get. But often, sleep starts to get increasingly complicated during middle age. This week, I’m jumping back in to talk about how we sleep during middle age and throughout our older years.Īt every stage of life, we face different challenges to sleep. Last week, we covered sleep in young adulthood, right up to the start of middle age. I’ve been writing about what sleep looks like at every age.

What Sleep is Like at Every Age: 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and Beyond.