Why You Need Your Sleep

Adequate sleep is essential to all your vital processes, especially your fertility. Sleep deprivation impacts your mood, metabolism and menstrual cycles, leading to hormonal changes that may delay conception.

In one study, researchers queried sleep deprived women in professions where late night shift work is common. Half of these women reported irregular cycles and ovulation patterns, linked with a reduction in the hormone “leptin” which is regulated by sleep.

"A growing body of evidence suggests that late night and overnight work schedules are associated with menstrual irregularities, reproductive disturbances, and risk of adverse pregnancy," says Phyllis Zee, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Sleep Disorders Center and associate professor of neurology at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago.

And as Nutrition adviser Kathryn Flynn explains, “It is all the more reason to get a solid eight hours of rest and request breakfast in bed when planning for pregnancy.”


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