04/23/2026
Your body has an alarm clock you didn't set. If you're waking up between 2-4am consistently, your cortisol curve is off — and here's why that happens.
Your cortisol is supposed to rise gradually before dawn to wake you up naturally. But when sleep quality is poor, that curve shifts earlier. Your body starts the wake-up process at 2 or 3am instead of 6 or 7.
Blood sugar plays a role too — if it drops overnight, your body releases cortisol to compensate. And that wakes you up.
You're not broken. Your body is just out of sync.
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