45. Why Your Sleep Feels Different After 40

The Nourish to Thrive Podcast · Apr 30, 2026 · 19m

If your sleep feels lighter…easier to disrupt…or just not as restorative as it used to, you’re not imagining it.

In this episode, we continue the series “What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You” and take a step back to look at why sleep changes in midlife.

Because this isn’t about one single issue.

It’s about how the entire system is shifting.

We walk through four key reasons sleep starts to feel different:

• Progesterone decline and less deep, restorative sleep

• Cortisol rhythm becoming more sensitive to your day

• A nervous system carrying more load into the night

• Sleep becoming more…