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The Cascade You Didn't Know You Were In
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Grace is on the couch at 4 AM with her laptop. She is doing what nurses do when they cannot sleep: reading the research. PubMed. Full-text PDFs. The language is clinical but the body reading it is not. She takes a piece of paper from the kids' homework pile and draws a loop. Insomnia at the top. An...
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- Insomnia is not isolated —it cascades into fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, and back to insomnia
- One night of sleep deprivation increases amygdala reactivity by 60% (Walker, UC Berkeley)
- Conditioned arousal at bedtime is more prevalent in perimenopausal women (Kalmbach, Henry Ford Health)
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