According to Dr Gareth Nye, a lecturer at Chester Medical School who specialises in maternal and foetal health, people are twice as likely to report insomnia in the pre-bleed menstrual cycle stage than at any other time.
‘Did you get good sleep?’ my partner asked me last Wednesday, like he usually does in the morning.I’d spent the night tossing and turning for hours, completely wired despite my body and brain crying out for sleep.When my alarm finally went off on Wednesday morning, I was exhausted – but not surprised.
‘Hormones are messengers that go from one part of the body to another to change bodily functions,’ he explains. ‘These two hormones rise during the first half of the cycle to help prepare the uterus for a fertilised egg to implant and grow.’ ‘As progesterone causes a rise in your normal body temperature by up to a full degree, which – although doesn’t seem like much – may be sufficient to disrupt sleep patterns,’ Nye says.
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