{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Balancing Hormones Naturally","title":"Fix Your Sleep, Fix Your Hormones","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2030,"description":"You can eat perfectly, take all the right supplements, and still feel like your hormones are a mess. If you’re not sleeping, nothing else is going to work the way it should. Here’s exactly why, and what to actually do about it.\nIn this episode:\nWhy sleep and hormones aren’t separate conversations, they’re the same conversation.\nThe cortisol and progesterone connection, why poor sleep steals from your keep calm carry on hormone and then makes sleep even harder.\nHow estrogen regulates REM sleep and why perimenopause, menopause, and postpartum hit so hard at night.\nThe hunger and fullness hormones that get completely thrown off when you don’t sleep well, and why you’re not weak for craving sugar \nafter a bad night.\nWhy your thyroid mineral gets depleted by stress and poor sleep, and how that loops back into weight.\nThe melatonin fact nobody talks about, most of it is made in your gut, not your brain.\nWhy you cannot out supplement a sleep problem.\nThe four hour window between dinner and sleep, why it matters and what to do if you’re always hungry before bed.\nThe screen habits that are wrecking your middle of the night sleep without you realizing it.\nThe iPhone red screen hack, blue light glasses, and the sticky red paper on the Kindle.\nWhy what you do in the morning is equally as important as what you do at night, and the two minute outdoor habit that resets your circadian rhythm.\nThe brain dump routine that gets everything out of your head so you stop lying awake with a mental to do list.\nLeah’s full six minute nighttime habit stack, acupressure mat, legs up the wall, near infrared light, and a visualization exercise.\nThe foods that actually help your body produce melatonin, including tart cherry and pistachios.\nThe supplements worth considering for sleep, magnesium glycinate, reishi, valerian, and CBD.\nYou don’t have to spend a lot of money to sleep better. But you do have to stop skipping the basics.\nLeah’s Favorite Things:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/86wOr6F_xPdgn7OPf0XXH95ik4VSvdkxX5yC3FNCRRo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZDg5/ZjRlYmM5NDBiZTc4/MDg0MmUyMWY5OTAx/NWQyYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}