Dr. Tabatha Barber says many women diagnosed with PCOS or perimenopause actually have thyroid problems caused by poor sleep and disrupted circadian rhythm. About 1 in 8 U.S. women have an undiagnosed thyroid condition, rising to 1 in 4 among women of color. Fixing your sleep rhythm comes before anything else.
1 in 8 women.
1 in 4 women of color.
We can't keep jumping onto pcos and perimenopause. Yeah, we have to get your busy brain score, and we have to reset the circadian rhythm. Here's what I found in my research. That step one was actually resetting the circadian rhythm and sleep. That's actually your thyroid gland. So that when the circadian rhythm is off and you have a busy brain, it's now negatively impacting thyroid stimulating hormone release from the pituitary and your thyroid gland. In the United States, one in eight women has a undiagnosed thyroid condition. And if you're a woman like myself with extra melanin in your skin, women of color, it's one in four.
