Hormone Imbalance is a frequent cause of insomnia. There is a balance between estrogen and progesterone. Too much or little of either hormone can tip you over to sleeplessness
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This is Dr. Lam, founder of drlam.com. Today's topic is sleep series on hormones. Now hormonal imbalance is a frequent cause of insomnia. Either estrogen deficiency, estrogen excessiveness, or what we call estrogen dominance, can also be part of the clinical picture. Now depends on your status. If you have a deficient in estrogen that causes sleeplessness, then a touch of estrogen can be very helpful. At the same time, if you have too much estrogen, then some progesterone, that's natural progesterone, not the progestins that is a synthetic compounds made by drug companies, as well as a natural compound such as Vitex can be very helpful.
So progesterone in particular has a very calming effect. Its physiological dose is about 20 milligrams but for sleep you may not need that much. The problem with progesterone is that it can be very related to candida infections if you take too much. So for sleep it is a side effect of progesterone. And some people take progesterone mostly for hormonal imbalances but get the side benefit of progesterone for sleep.
If you have adrenal fatigue, however, the use of progesterone needs to be much more careful, because progesterone is metabolized by the liver. So if you have a weak liver, congested liver, or you have extracellular space that is congested, then progesterone benefits may be limited. And in which case there are other ways to deal with it.
So hormonal balance, along with metabolic, autonomic nervous system issues, cortisol issues, are all factors that has to be looked into when you have sleep disturbance. Women and men both can have hormonal imbalances, so it's not just limited to women.
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