How Cortisol Impacts Sleep
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2024
- Chronic stress has become epidemic in our society where faster is better and we attempt to pack more obligations into our ever-expanding schedules. In the face of chronic stress, insulin increases and your adrenal glands release hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.
These hormones flood your system, raising your heart rate, increasing your blood pressure, increasing belly fat storage, and affecting our sleep. And we now know that sleep is a major cornerstone of health.
So what steps can we take to manage stress?
You can try find ways throughout the day to manage your stress. This could be through meditation, deep breathing techniques, a hot bath, a massage, or short walk outside.
What’s your favorite way to relax?
You can find the full episode on The Doctor’s Farmacy. 
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Explains everything, in less than a minute! 😮 👏
So how do we balance it?😊
Hope the loud guy upstairs moves out
Lifestyle and diet changes usually.
Ashwagandha
Listen to the video, he says sugar makes it fluctuate wildly, so it's obvious from that to stop eating sugar.
@@TehLiquid but I did listen😅. he didn't say "sugar" he said fluctuations in bloodsugar. That's different, because it becomes more complex than just eliminating sugar from your diet. Besides, he also said "often", so it means not always and that it's not the only reason (stress might also be one of them).
However, I do agree that eliminating sugar might definitely improve the situation.
Doing mindful yoga, an hour before bed, helps me stay asleep at night.
Good luck with that
Thanks Doc.
Cortisol is messing me up at night gives me restless legs
Ooo take
CALM, ITS MAGNISOUM,it will relax those legs
Also, u need thiamine 100 to 500.pernite
Start out slow n build up t 509mil😊
Dr Hyman: you’re an angel on earth
Your really starting to meld into a Jon Stewart look alike doc
But a very tired Jon Stewart. I hope he is ok.
I can see this happening on my garmin watch which tracks my stress levels. It's often higher when I'm sleeping than when I'm chilling on the couch.
This sounds like me exactly. So what's the best way to balance your cortisol and blood sugar? What videos could I watch? What books should I read to find the answers?
Use sunlight. Free and perfect.
There're one million retinal ganglion cells in your eyes. If you feed them with proper amount of blue light in the morning before 9, they will set your perfect cortisol level during the day.
The other side of the coin: avoid blue light in the evening (phone screens etc.)
This is the point of your circadian rhythm. Cortisol is not a stress hormone but an activity hormone. Use it wisely.
Over thinking is my problem sometimes, I need to stay in my lane 😂🤣
Try ashwagandha if you haven’t already, 11-25 percent reduction in cortisol, increased testosterone if you’re a man, increases acetylcholine in the brain so you focus easier
This is how I feel sometimes, I have lots of energy during the day and then in the early evening I feel really tired and fall asleep at times. I will eventually wake up and then watch the tv and then about two or three hours later I will go to bed at about midnight and wake up at three thirty or four o’clock in the morning.
I go to bed at 10PM and get up at 4:45AM every day and wake up at least once a night to go the toilet, but I never over sleep and never wake up tired. I'm 63 BTW.
You are blessed! I havent had a good sleep in years...
That is brilliant❤😊
Waking up at 2am is the worst feeling
It’s feels like I’m lazy or I didn’t do something right
It’s also so difficult when you have a significant other that doesn’t respect your sleep schedule and you share a bed, so you’re kept up all night.
Thank you for sharing
Thank You for explaining this !! 👍🏼 ✅
I wake up at 2 am everyday when I'm worried about life.
I have to take 100mg of progesterone (to balance estrogen) and progesterone is the precursor cortisol. So lack of sleep means the liver can't metabolize estrogen (or glucose). Which leads to more estrogen. (And high blood sugar). So going to find a dietary solution.
This is great advice!!
And what’s the advice exactly?
Why it's to get and keep everything in balance my good sir!
In calm relaxed and sleepy in evening but I still stay up bc of YT and it feels relaxing tp just watch. I guess my phone is my new tv habit
lol I did a Dutch Test and my nighttime cortisol was way high far above the norm. It’s like my circadian rhythm has completely flipped.
The ND was baffled. Working on fixing that.
So what's the remedy/solution??
Thank you 😊
I think its the inflammation in the respiratory system which is the real culprit which is a secondary effect of the cortisol.
Valuable information! Thank uuuuu ❤
What information, he didn't explain how to fix it 🙄
How to lower cortisol level? Meditation?
🙏🏽❤️ Gracias thank you We love you
Mister you look like you are tired and need a hug 🫂 ❤
He's spending his life researching to help people. Of course he will look tired.
I agree with most of your points! The only thing is, when you say that people from the US should travel more, and not just inside the country, it’s just not something that’s accessible to a lot of people.
I grew up with many people who have still likely never left the *state* they grew up in, much less the country. And this is often due to lack of funds, lack of accessible transportation, and little to no vacation time from work for many.
Also, the education system in so many states is a whole ass mess, and it really doesn’t surprise me that a lot of us are not informed about things that seem basic to people from other countries. Now, hopefully people would be more educated about other cultures since we have so much information available, especially because of the internet. But if you’re not raised with a curiosity for other cultures, content with diverse perspectives may not be what you’re exposed to on the media platforms you use.
This is not to excuse people being disrespectful to others, but just to explain where the “ignorant American” stereotype comes from, and that it’s kinda sad that people don’t have access to better information.
There’s other creators who have made interesting videos on this topic btw!
So what’s the solution Doc?
So, how do I change this? I wake up usually four to six hours after falling asleep. I actually try to go to bed at least an hour earlier whenever possible because it usually will take an hour or so for me to feel sleepy again and fall back to sleep after I have woken up.
Go U Good Thing!!
Ok, so how do we reduce the Cortisol??
taking melatonin can help.
Lower stress 💜
Breathing, yoga, walking..being in nature…🌊🌞
Cortisol in excess will waste away your muscle mass😬✅
YES
Thanks for this. Does it matter what time you consume your last meal? Or stress is the main factor?
Thank you, any advice for those of us who work nights at this time?
God is Love and #Loveisnotacortisol stress hormone. 🕊💖🕊
All causes no solutions
What if you don’t what you’re levels are at all. Such as a person like myself with Addison’s, Graves ( no thyroid) and UC
Thankyou
Same here. I had a Thyroidectomy and struggling.
Sooo what is the answer to this ?????
Ok but what’s the fix?
3 am. COOKIE 🍪 🥠 🍪 🥠 🍪 🥠 🍪 NOW!!!!
musicians hours
Sad to see handsome doc now looking aged and sickly.Please take care ...no extreme diets or lifestyles
Probably working around the clock to help people like us
Is there a way to measure wat your levels are besides the obvious. In talking numbers
Excellent explanation ~~~~~>💓°•○☆💕
Depends who piss me off, a marathon runner
And what if you are grieving and wake up in the middle of the night?
That's normal, you're adjusting and processing a major event in your life, it'll pass
carbs are not the problem. the problem is seed oils.
Me 😢
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People should have known the costs before robbing supermarket stores
Do you eat a lot of sugar? Or alcohol? Your eyes tell that
Why does he look so tired?
So, how do I prevent me going to pee during night, every night for the last 20 years????
Do what you do with kids? Keep hydrated during the day then limit fluids coming up to evening.
My cortisol levels are very high
Phosphorylated serine, lemon balm, GABA can help in a pinch but do your duty and research first before you go buying, there are natural ways like dietary change, exercise, stress reduction, yoga meditation, relaxing hobbies etc that can help first before trying any pill
Thanks for that Captain obvious
and?
More like fartatonin
I'll bet you in 10 years this guy will be even more weird than he is today