Sleep disorders are one of the health problems most often reported by women approaching menopause and in the period after (climacteric).
The need for sleep naturally tends to decrease with advancing age in both sexes, but in the peri-menopausal woman, sleep disturbances become particularly frequent due to the drop in estrogen hormone levels typical of the end of childbearing age and the resulting general destabilization of countless neuroendocrine balances and neurovegetative functions.
Managing sleep disturbances in this natural but sensitive stage of a woman’s life in many respects is critical to improving quality of life and helping to prevent the development or worsening of other diseases and disorders related to chronically inadequate sleep (mood disorders, pain syndromes, cardiovascular disease, etc.).
