At this very moment, over 50 million adult women in the U.S. and more than 1 billion globally experience clinically significant sleep disturbances or disorders. These include insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and hormone-related disruptions tied to menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause. These figures don’t account for ripple effects sleep has on fertility, cognition, metabolism, and mental health.

Over 90% of women with sleep disorders are never properly diagnosed or treated including 95% of pregnancies when the risk of sleep disorders are high. Conditions like insomnia and sleep apnea are often missed, misattributed, or treated in isolation. Many are prescribed medications without full evaluation, or receive care that overlooks coexisting issues, such as addressing insomnia while undiagnosed apnea remains untreated.

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 hormone 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.