Shilpa Sayana, MDTriple Board Certified Functional Medicine MD.

Struggling with Sleep? Perimenopause & Sleep Fixes You Need to Try! 🌙💤

Name: Struggling with Sleep? Perimenopause & Sleep Fixes You Need to Try! 🌙💤
Uploaded: 2025-03-13T00:00:25+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Shilpa Sayana, MD
Description: A short spoken segment from a YouTube video by Shilpa Sayana, MD addressing sleep problems during perimenopause. The speaker emphasizes the need for 5–6…

13 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment from a YouTube video by Shilpa Sayana, MD addressing sleep problems during perimenopause. The speaker emphasizes the need for 5–6 hours of consolidated sleep, good sleep hygiene (no screens before bed, consistent bedtime, using bed only for sleep, and avoiding daytime caffeine), and notes that progesterone decline beginning around age 35 can trigger insomnia.

Questions this video answers

At least five to six hours of consolidated sleep.

Around or above age 35.

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I know you mentioned sometimes some women have issues with sleep as they get into menopause. Yes, let's, let's talk a little bit about that. Absolutely. Sleep is so important because we want to get at least five to six hours of consolidated sleep where you're not waking up in the middle to help with memory consolidation. So a lot of times people are like, I'm sleeping good. I sleep eight hours. But when you actually dive deeper, they waking up every two hours and looking at their phone or looking at their alarm or the time. And so it's very important to have good sleep hygiene where you're like, don't on a screen before you sleep. Sleeping at a regular bedtime, using the bed mainly for sleep and making sure that you're not having these caffeinated beverages throughout the day, that's keeping you awake. But apart from that, when women go into that perimenopause, like above 35 and their progesterone starts going away, that's when they might really feel issues with insomnia.