Losing sleep over the Fog of Menopause? | Menopause Brain Fog and Insomnia
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- čas přidán 20. 11. 2023
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Your channel is so helpful. Thank you 🙏
@livelikeawinner4087 Thank you so much for watching and for your kind comment. I can use all the encouragement I can get to continue moving on.
I feel progesterone actually causes me sleep to be worse. Estrogen is the sleep hormone
Taking a capsule of Progesterone makes me sleep like a baby. I couldn’t go without it.
Thank you so much for this video. For the past 5 years I have said "If only if I can get good quality sleep every night, my body could take care of the minor thyroid and adrenal issues". I've tried every single one of those "natural stuff" nighttime solutions you listed and nothing has helped. I'm convinced that it is lack of progesterone (and/or high adrenaline but that's another topic) because my top two and only two postmenopausal symptoms are anxiety and insomnia. And like you said in another one of your videos, those two symptoms point straight to progesterone. Unfortunately I am one of those women who cannot tolerate oral progesterone. My anxiety and insomnia got intensely worse. Now, I am experimenting with other delivery methods. My question to you is this... is there a biological explanation for why many hormone practitioners say that you have to take large doses of oral progesterone (200-400 mg) in order for it to "kick in" and sometimes that also includes a much higher dose of estrogen. I just read a book from one of the early bHRT pioneers, who used mostly progesterone-only cream therapy for his patients. He also claimed that you have to use a strong concentration of progesterone cream of 5% because weaker strengths like 2% "can actually stimulate estrogen receptor sites." This confused me. Has there been any research as to why larger doses are needed at the receptor/cell level and does the answer invalidate a "low and slow" method of introducing bHRT into the body?
What about men?i feel the same, I'm 45 and my recall is horrible and I'm exhausted all the time!
When it comes to hormones and one is diagnosed with diabeties thyroid issues they look at insulin level /t3/t4 level, not blood...why therfore is blood range for estrogen/progesterone take precendence over fsh/lh level for many who prescribe bhrt. To me this does not make sense as some woman still have many symptoms despite being in the blood range which is a snapshot in time and many variables can effect those blood range levels..wouldn't fsh/lh optimal premenopausal range be the numbers to strive for? Also amother factor is when one is diagnosed with diabeties/thyroid issues they are not given the lowest dose at higher dosage increments of 2/3 months??? they may have to tweak dosage a bit. So again why does bhrt start that lowest dose at 3 month increase dosage? take scenario of 2 women...one can feel great in a month at start dose of .5 and another has to wait a year to finally get relief of severe symptoms if she requires lets say a dose of 1.25.. this does not make sense to have a woman wait a year to finally get relief!!! progesterone of course would be also taken into account for balance if breakthough bleeding happens and.endometrium lining protection.without automatically assuming she needs to lower estrogen dosage if it's not taken into account that she still is not in the fsh premenopausal range. Correct me if I'm wrong if this is not so cut and dry. Thanks