Gary Brecka

The thing about progesterone is when progesterone floors out, you have a difficult time falling asleep and staying asleep.

This is why sometimes progesterone can be a magic pill for men and women, usually in younger ages, that are having a difficult time sleeping.

The other thing that I wanna point out here, and I'm gonna explain this later in the test, is that we have a waking hormone called cortisol.

And if we look at waking in the morning versus nighttime, a normal pattern for cortisol, as you may know, and this is one of the reasons why I think that you should be getting morning light, is that cortisol is rising in the morning.

Cortisol is our waking hormone.

It's responsive to light.

That's why first light in the morning, getting sunlight in your eyes in the morning is such a good thing.

It actually starts to fall.

in the morning into the afternoon.

This is why you feel more energy later in the morning because you feel that energy in the morning and you feel lack of energy throughout the day because the cortisol is falling.

This is very normal.

And then as you go into your nighttime sleep pattern, it falls off to a low.

This is when melatonin starts to rise.

So actually look at Sage's cortisol cycle.

So you see here how cortisol is barely rising.

This means it's really hard to wake up in the morning.

So this is one of the catastrophes that also happens in menopause.

Why?

Because cortisol is made from another hormone called pregnenolone.

It also makes aldosterone, but it's made from pregnenolone.