![]() It's a combination of anxiety, all things for which you're responsible, adolescents in their 20s, finances, juggling stuff keeps us awake. But left to our own devices, we are often pretty good sleepers until the middle of our lives. There are years of jobs that shift hours. There are the years of infants and young children that wake us up at night. They're night people, but they have to get to work at 7:30 in the morning, so their sleep is disrupted. Of course, there are some kids who are naturally short sleepers, and there are those people whose sleep rhythms don't let them really fit into their daily lives. We are usually really great sleepers until midlife. After that, we begin to age with decreasing muscle mass, bone density, and cognitive speed. We are about as strong and as smart, and I'm not saying wise, as we're ever going to be in normal biologic function at about 30. I embrace the 40 to 70, but 30 to 60 is probably better. It depends on where you are as to what range you will embrace. ![]() Midlife is a little harder to define, but it is that middle of your life from about 40 to 70, after you are young, but before you get old. It's the last period, and it happens at about 50 years of age in most women. Menopause is when periods stop because there are not any more eggs to ovulate in the ovary. Menopause and midlife aging happen at about the same time for most women, but they aren't exactly the same. It is that time of life, midlife, menopause, and you aren't sleeping so well. ![]()
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