Tossing and turning when you need sleep is no fun. It’s ten times worse if you don’t know what to blame. Once you’ve addressed the usual suspects––excess caffeine, screen time, and not feeling tired––it might be time to focus on something different. Here we reveal more about the hormones that make you sleepy and keep you awake.
Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers and regulate your body’s major processes. These include hunger for growth and development, and sleep. Keeping your hormones balanced with hormone optimization therapy can help you maintain your overall health.
Hormones to Regulate Sleep
While there is no single sleep hormone, several vital hormones create chemical reactions in your body, making it more or less likely to have a good night’s sleep. They include:
- Adrenocorticotropic hormone: The stress hormone that triggers cortisone and cortisol, which keeps your body wired.
- Aldosterone and antidiuretic hormone: These hormones lower the amount of water generated from the kidneys, leading to fewer trips to the bathroom to urinate and a night of uninterrupted sleep.
- Melatonin: Circadian rhythm hormone affected by darkness to tell your body it’s time to sleep.
Bio-Identical Hormone Treatment
Our natural hormone levels diminish with age, as do the functions they support. Bio-identical hormone treatments replace those critical components your body can no longer produce. Therefore, hormone optimization is vital to your health as you age. These bio-identical hormones are natural, plant-based substances that your body can metabolize and minimize some effects of aging.
BioTe Medical Pellet Therapy
BioTe is a bio-identical hormone replacement therapy for men and women. Pellets are great alternatives to synthetic hormone replacement therapy. Studies have shown that pellets provide symptom relief faster and more successfully than the alternative, artificial methods.
These grain-sized pellets are custom-compounded therapies that contain doses of estrogen and testosterone for issues resulting from hormonal imbalances. BioTe Pellet Therapy can help keep your hormone levels consistent throughout the day. The therapy that BioTe utilizes employs hormones bioidentical to those found in your body. As a result, consistent doses are released into your bloodstream—a much more effective process than oral or topical therapies.
The pellets are placed subcutaneously on the buttocks and release a continuous stream of hormones as the body needs them. Once inserted, the pellets dissolve slowly, so they only need to be re-administered every four to six months.
BioTE Medical’s hormone therapy may help address fatigue, insomnia, brain fog, weight gain, and anxiety. In addition, hormone therapy can ultimately deliver hormonal imbalance symptom relief so that you can resume living a healthy, well-rested lifestyle.
Keeping Your Hormones in Check
Your body is an intricate system that is deeply affected by the chemical changes that go on inside itself daily. Therefore, to stay as happy and healthy as possible, you must take adequate care of yourself, including hormone optimization, which means getting enough sleep, eating healthily, and getting enough exercise. So, what better reason is there for a bit of self-care?
Schedule a consultation with the Dr. Jennifer Hicks at Key Laser Institute today by calling (503) 291-1953 or contacting us online.