
Dr. Michael Breus
Clinical psychologist and board-certified sleep medicine specialist known as "The Sleep Doctor"; founder of The Sleep Doctor and sleep education brand with expertise in chronotype-based sleep solutions.
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Jun 30, 2026
759: Tired, Wired & Inflamed? The Sleep Fix Most Women Are Missing with Dr. Michael Breus
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Dr. Michael BreusGUEST
Why? Because cortisol is like basically getting adrenaline in the middle of the night, and so, boom, it wakes you up.

Dr. Michael BreusGUEST
Guess what time it seems to hit? Somewhere between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning is when we start to see this cortisol hit, which is interesting because it's oftentimes a reaction to either lower estrogen or lower progesterone or irregular estrogen and progesterone.

Dr. Michael BreusGUEST
So one thing that we have happen is basically somebody pushes the awake button in the middle of the night, which is called cortisol.

Dr. Michael BreusGUEST
A second thing that we know that happens, I think there's a blood sugar surge.
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