At this very moment, over 80 million adult women in the U.S. and more than 1 billion globally experience clinically significant sleep disturbances or disorders. Over a lifetime as women navigate hormone-related disruptions tied to menstruation, postpartum, and menopause as well as various professional and caregiving roles, nearly all women will experience a sleep disorder. (National Sleep Foundation, Sleep in America Poll, 2007. RAND Corporation, 2023)

Over 90% of cases of sleep apnea in women are not diagnosed and less than 5% of pregnant women are screened for snoring even though sleep disorders spikes during pregnancies. Conditions like insomnia and sleep apnea are often missed, misattributed, or treated in isolation. Many women are prescribed medications without full evaluation, or receive care that overlooks coexisting issues, such as addressing insomnia while undiagnosed apnea remains untreated.  (Kapsimalis & Kryger,J Women’s Health, 2009. Bourjeily et al.,Ther Adv Respir Dis, 2012)

Sleep is often associated with fatigue, focus, and headaches, but those symptoms barely scratch the surface of sleep’s full impact on women’s health and quality of life. Among other functions, sleep anchors hormonal balance, weight regulation, libido, appetite and cravings, cardiovascular health, fertility and egg quality, bone health, immune strength, memory, mood, microbiome health, stress reactivity, skin repair, cognition and long-term brain function.