Dr Lindsay Browning

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308 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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We don't just go awake, sleep, and then we're like dead to the world for seven, eight, nine hours.

we have these things called sleep cycles.

And what that means is our body goes through different parts of sleep, like non-REM, REM sleep, light sleep, deep sleep, you might have heard of.

We kind of cycle through these different parts of sleep, which all have different benefits to us.

And approximately every 90 minutes, 100 minutes, 110 minutes or so, we'll go through a full sleep cycle.

And then most of us will have an awareness, an awakening,

between these sleep cycles.

Now, the point is when we were 21, these brief arousals between these sleep cycles typically were so short that we don't realize we're having them.

But then when we go through something stressful, we go through the menopause and we are now awake.

We're aware of this awakening because we've woken up and we're really hot.

We think, oh no, my sleep now is fragmented or poor quality because I'm waking up.

But we don't realize that we're always waking up.

The point is, there is no such thing as a solid night's sleep of unbroken sleep.

These natural awakenings between sleep cycles have always been happening, whether you're aware of them or not.

And when we're going through menopause, we just become aware of something that was always happening.

It's just now happening for maybe five to 10 minutes instead of a couple of minutes.

And that means that you can be rest assured your sleep quality hasn't really changed very much.

You're just aware of something that you weren't previously aware of.

And that knowledge can often really, really help because now when you wake up, you can think, oh, this is normal.

That's not the end of the world.

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