Dr Natalie Crawford
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jun
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Your body needs at least seven and a half hours of sleep, probably more in the luteal phase.
It's a big caloric need to make progesterone.
But that sleep has to be real sleep in the bed.
I would assume it probably does.
So that would be really interesting data to have.
But at the end of the day, what we need to be doing is really thinking about what time do I need to get up?
When do I need to get in bed?
Where can I put my phone?
How do I make the room cool, dark?
I love a sound machine, a sleep mask.
And really importantly, if you sleep in the bed with another human, they have to be on the same sleep pattern as you.
They have to be.
If you're trying to get pregnant, they should be, right?
Because we just talked about how important it is for men's health too.
But very often I see discordant sleep couples where the man is coming in hours later, you're trying to go to bed, but then your sleep is disrupted, harder to get back to sleep.
And we really should have this team-based approach to how we get sleep.
I can add on to this one really quickly.
If physiologically sleep clears inflammation and improves insulin resistance, we said those two things, but your gonadotropins, FSH and LH, are released from the brain in the early morning hour.
So if you are not getting enough sleep, your brain is not going to be able to release the amount of FSH and LH it needs to ovulate or to make estrogen and progesterone.
What about exercise?
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