Dr. Nyree Penn, DHSc, CAAInventor | Founder | CEO, 🌙 NSOMNIA Sleep · ✨ NeuroRestorative Sleep Scientist | Anesthesiologist Assistant (CAA) | Founder & CEO 🌙 NSOMNIA Sleep Centers™ | Author | Speaker 🌟Redefining Sleep for NeuroRestorative Brain Health

🌙 Could Your Hormones Be Affecting Your Sleep? #shorts

29 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise YouTube short, Nyree Penn explains how hormonal fluctuations can influence sleep quality for both men and women. She highlights that testosterone can enhance sleep pathways, leading to better rest, while low estrogen in women—particularly during menopause—causes hot flashes that interrupt sleep, resulting in fragmented nights. Hormone replacement therapy can mitigate these issues, improving overall sleep quality.

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A lot of people feel like, oh, I can't sleep, it must be my hormones. It may be, especially for men and women both. You may notice that you sleep better if you do get the hormone replacement. Testosterone specifically actually does facilitate, again, your sleep pathways. Estrogen, absolutely, as women see with hot flashes. That's due to low estrogen, the hot flashes, but that affects your sleep due to the fact that it wakes you up at night. Not the estrogen, it's the waking up at night and having the fragmented sleep. That's how hot flashes and menopause

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