Beat Menopause Insomnia for The Best Sleep of Your Life
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Struggling with menopause insomnia? In this video, I'll share science-backed tips and hormone optimization strategies to help you get the best sleep of your life, even during menopause.
Menopause insomnia can be incredibly disruptive, affecting your overall well-being and daily life. From practical sleep tips to the role of hormones like estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, we'll cover everything you need to know to improve your sleep quality.
🔹 Practical Tips for Better Sleep:
Early to Bed, Early to Rise
Here Comes the Sun: Light Exposure for Better Sleep
Ban Blue Light for Better Sleep Quality
Coffee (and Cocktail) Break: Limit Stimulants
Don't Forget to Breathe: Relaxation Techniques
Bust A Move: Exercise for Better Sleep
No European (i.e., 10:00 PM) Dining: Timing Your Meals
Manage Stress for Better Sleep
Supplements to Improve Sleep
Relaxation, Rest, and Relationship: Optimize Your Sleep Environment
🔹 Hormone Optimization for Sleep:
How Estrogen, Progesterone, and Testosterone Affect Sleep
Benefits of Estrogen in HRT
Progesterone: The Natural Sedative
Testosterone’s Impact on Sleep Quality
If you're struggling with severe sleep deprivation from menopause, a hormone optimization specialist can help you get your hormones to just right levels that transform your sleep. Visit my website at simplehormones.com/referral
to request a referral to a specialist.
Check out my comprehensive course, "The Menopause Solution," on hormone optimization. All the details are available on my website at simplehormones.com/decision
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Practical Tips for Managing Menopause Insomnia
10:45 Hormone Optimization for Improving Sleep
20:00 Conclusion and Next Steps
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Thank you Steve for another informative video!
I’d like to share a very recent and interesting discovery about oral Progesterone because this isn’t talked about much. I found that “slow” release compounded oral progesterone helps me sleep compared to a “fast” release formula like Prometrium. I’ve worked up to 100 mg at bedtime and 100 mg when I wake up at 1-2am. I am now getting a total of 6 hours deep quality sleep rather than that typical 2-3 hours of stressful sleep. Since I’ve only been doing a higher progesterone protocol (using 2 different delivery methods) for a couple of weeks, I’m hoping in time my total sleep time will improve even more as the progesterone continues its calming effect. And here I thought I had an intolerance to oral progesterone because when I started bHRT a year ago, it would intensify my anxiety especially in the middle of the night. It was a very scary experience. Hoping my discovery can help others too.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Did you had other symptoms of progesterone intolerance (Other than anxiety through the night)?
@@jennybadl7840 I would also get heartburn, have nightmares and I would wake up abruptly with what felt like an adrenaline rush. All symptoms were at nighttime.
Unfortunately i had to stop oral progesterone, it gives me headache. I have tried differrnt doses but i always end up with headache and may be my joint are also a bit sore when i am on it.
I wonder if anybody had the same problem being on oral bioidentical progesterone?
May using it rectaly would make a difference?
@@jackiedalseme3138
Yep. The sleep issue is HUGE. Perhaps the most dangerous and destructive overall. I sometimes wouldn’t sleep at all. Zip. Or just 2-3 hours. Rarely, once or twice a year, would sleep 6-7 hours. After starting progesterone I sleep 7 hours.
thank you for such informative info i finally found a provider to prescribe me progesterone estradiol and soon testosterone im in post menopause havent got a good night sleep inthe last 4 years!! almost went insane! im already sleeping better since the first week of using 100 mg of prometrium!❤ thank God for this medication i feel optimistic now about getting my okd self back❤
Same here! JUST prescribed this week.
@graceguerrero7045 You're very welcome. I'm glad progesterone has helped so much with your sleep. It does that for most (but not all) women. Many women use similar words about "getting my old self back."
Thanks for another good video.
I am a perimenopausal someone who needs progesterone (per DUTCH), but seem to have progesterone intolerance, as I have chronic fatigue for the last 5 years, and progesterone makes my fatigue so, so, so much worse, to where I can't get through my work days when I take it (whether cream/topical/intravaginal/oral/SR/IR/morning/evening). It's frustrating.
I’ve viewed hormone “specialist” MDs and neuroscientists online who repeat that progesterone is “not needed if the uterus has been removed.” Could you please address and detail this issue since you have stated that progesterone IS needed, even without one having a uterus. I think some opinions, even MDs, are based on seeing a woman as an assemblage of reproductive organs, not as a whole, independent person. Surely the brain is affected by this hormone as it is by estradiol, testosterone and the others? Kindly advise.
Thanks for all you do Steve, much appreciated.
The hardest part is finding the right level of hormones. After 7 months of HRT I still have major problems
Thanks for addressing this … can u do a video on how to figure out what level of hormones to take … any side effects we should notice in the first few weeks / months . Thanks
For up to date and science backed info on menopause and HRT search for Dr. Mary Claire Haver and Dr. Lisa Mosconi.
I take estradiol and prometrium 100mg but took a test and my estradiol level high and progesterone low inspite of taking hormones. I was having breakthrough mucus that look like blood shed. Can you tell me what that could be. I’m still struggling with anxiety and insomnia. I wake up early every day still. I thought the hormones would help with sleep. Any suggestions?
Was so confused when I saw menopause and sleep but it was a man😂, so of course I had to click on