Trouble sleeping at Menopause? Here are some Naturopathic options for you!
If you are a menopausal woman who has disrupted sleep despite restricting your caffeine intake to the morning hours and staying away from screens and lights after 6 or 7 pm, discover your naturopathic options as I discuss them with Dr Heidi Lescanec (ND), a licensed Naturopathic doctor. You can choose between watching the video and reading the transcript!
TRANSCRIPT
Question MenopauseWize:
If you are a menopausal woman who has disrupted sleep despite restricting your caffeine intake to the morning hours and staying away from screens and lights after 6 or 7 pm, discover your naturopathic options as I discuss them with Dr Heidi Lescanec, a licensed Naturopathic doctor.
Answer Dr. Heidi:
Sleep is our best opportunity to rest and recover, so if someone has all the really important sleep hygiene tips tended to, then I’ll look in my naturopathic medicine toolkit for herbs, nutrients, amino acids, and bioidentical hormones. Any of these items are in combination recommended on an individual basis very specific to someone’s unique health history and needs and what they’re presenting with. But I do have a general recommendation I can share. Is helpful and has very little in the way of contraindications, and it's called Ashwagandha matrix. It's a combination of an amino acid and an herb. Ashwagandha is Withania. It's an adrenal restorative. We use it a great deal. It's an Adaptogen, which means it helps the body to resist damage from physical and mental stress. And it also has L-theanine in it, which is an amino acid that comes from green tea that enhances GABA levels. And GABA is a calming neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger in the brain. The combination of these two, ashwagandha and L-theanine helps put us into a deeper level of restorative sleep phase three and R.E.M. and the beauty of this combination is this non-sedating.
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