1. THE CORTSIL
The Tired That Sleep Doesn't Fix Has a Name — And It Isn't Just "This Stage of Life"
When cortisol stays elevated for a long time, your nervous system gets locked in low-level emergency mode — even while you're sleeping. So you get 7 or 8 hours and wake up feeling like you got 5. Your body spent the night partially running threat-preparation instead of actually recovering.
That's not a sleep problem. That's a cortisol problem. And those have completely different solutions.
