Sometimes sleep just isn’t what it used to be, especially as we get older. Carol Yuan-Duclair is a board certified physician in pulmonary critical care, internal medicine, and sleep medicine. She has an amazing sleep health service for women that helps them get better sleep and live better lives.

In this episode, we discuss why one-size-fits-all does not apply to our sleep needs, how to know what your baseline for sleep really is, and how to cultivate good sleep habits. Carol also shares why sleep is important in relation to weight loss, the unique issues that women face when it comes to sleep, and what the mother of all sleep problems is. (Hint: It’s a particular problem for doctors).

Dr. Carol Yuan is a board-certified physician in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine and founder of B. Hai Sleep Health, a telehealth sleep service that helps women get better sleep. Learn more about Dr. Yuan and her sleep work at www.bhaisleephealth.com.

Recently, sleep seems to be slipping through my fingers. As a sleep physician with a special interest in women’s sleep health, I know all too well the possible causes. Since I just celebrated my 42nd birthday, I’m turning the corner where perimenopause is now within sight.

If American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.

Globally, women would have earned $10.9 trillion.

“The most characteristic slumber, the one most appropriate to the exercise of the art of painting…is the slumber which I call ‘the slumber with a key,’ … you must resolve the problem of ‘sleeping without sleeping,’ which is the essence of the dialectics of the dream, since it is a repose which walks in equilibrium on the taut and invisible wire which separates sleeping from waking.” — Salvador Dali, 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship

According to a survey on sleep habits both before and after lockdown measures caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 67% of Americans said they believe their sleep was healthier before the pandemic.

The expansive impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been linked with worsening mental health nationwide. As Americans deal with intensified levels of anxiety and depression, insomnia, a chief catalyst and comorbidity of these factors, has also grown in prominence among employees, physicians, and the general public.

Inconsistent sleep was found to be significantly associated with inflammatory dysfunction, particularly in women, according to study findings.

Inconsistent sleep was found to be significantly associated with inflammatory dysfunction, particularly in women, according to study findings published in Frontiers in Neurology.

A new Sleep Cycle survey reveals that Mars and Venus have different needs in the bedroom when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep. Women suffer more than men from sleep deprivation. The Sleep Cycle survey also reveals American women getting in more screen time before turning in for the night, while men do more snoring, sleepwalking and sleep eating.

The national survey of 1,004 U.S. adults was conducted online by Propeller Insights on behalf of Sleep Cycle in January 2018.