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Difficulty Sleeping

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Tossing and turning; throwing the covers off and on; laying there staring at the ceiling and planning out your next day while everyone else is sleeping soundly. It's so aggravating!!
Cortisol is the main hormones that allow us to fall asleep and wake up again. It has a daily rhythm: high in the morning so we'll awake and falling throughout of the day to being low at night so we can fall asleep. We can test this hormone to be sure that rhythm has not been disrupted. If cortisol is spiking at bedtime, it will impossible to fall asleep. Or, it may be near normal range and then spike at 2:00 or 3:00 am and cause you to wake up and not be able to go back to sleep. This creates difficulty sleeping! Cortisol is a stress handling hormone. So, if your stress levels are high, you will have difficulty sleeping. Cortisol is affected by blood sugar. When insulin rises, cortisol rises. So if you are having blood sugar handling difficulties, you will have sleeping difficulty. Cortisol needs to have a normal pattern which is determined and regulated by the HP Axis and a normal balance with the sex hormones. We test Cortisol levels and patterns through saliva samples.

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