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Sleep and Neurodivergence

The Neurodivergent Woman

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How Does Our Sleep Cycles Affect Our Hormones?

There's a couple of factors that impact our sleep cycles. And the two main things that we're going to talk about today are our HPA axis and our melatonin cycles. The HPA axis is a circuit that basically regulates our stress and our arousal state. So cortisol is really important because if we didn't have any cortisol, it would be really hard to do anything.

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