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Does the Personal Program for Adrenal Health help with insomnia? Can it improve my sleep?

The everyday function of your adrenal glands is directly connected to your sleep-wake cycle. The adrenal hormone cortisol is released in a 24-hour pattern according to your circadian rhythm, the cycle of a full day’s biological activity. One of the primary functions of cortisol is to help wake you up first thing in the morning, when cortisol levels are meant to be at their highest.

In turn, cortisol levels will ideally drop as the day wears on, gradually reaching their lowest levels when it’s time for you for fall asleep at night. But ongoing stress and the adrenal imbalance this can cause can shift this daily rhythm off-kilter, making it difficult for you to settle down at night. For many women, the cycle can even become inverted. In this frustrating scenario, you’re alert and wide awake at night, but fuzzy-headed and exhausted during the day.

The comprehensive, multilayered approach of our Personal Program for Adrenal Health is designed to recalibrate your adrenal function, reset this 24-hour rhythm, and allow your body and mind to calm down so you can stay asleep at night. With an all-natural selection of herbs, minerals, and additional targeted nutrients, our products help defuse stress, enhance proper communication between all your body’s systems, and protect your cells against the damaging effects of fatigue, inflammation, insulin resistance, and accelerated aging.

For women with chronically elevated cortisol levels who have difficulty with sleep, our product Serinisol is particularly helpful. We formulated Serinisol with a calming passionflower, calcium, magnesium, and phosphatidyl serine to help reduce anxiety, down-regulate the stress response, and support restorative sleep.

But no matter what combination of products your individual symptoms may call for, we offer personalized support to help you address any specific issues that are challenging your adrenal balance and ability to sleep well. We have the experience and knowledge to help you take the steps needed to put your adrenal health back in balance, so your adrenal glands can pulse out their full complement of hormones in a regular, timely fashion that is in-sync with your natural sleep-wake cycle.

Resetting your diurnal sleep-wake cycle so you’re alert in the day and asleep at night may take a little time. But as you begin to notice deeper, more refreshing sleep, your body’s innate healing mechanisms will be going to work each night, helping you awaken feeling restored and energetic. To learn more, see our article on the effects of adrenal imbalance on sleep.

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Last Modified Date: 04/15/2011