Sleep Deprivation
How Does It Affect Your
Ability To Conceive
You may be working too many hours, working strange hours outside your own body clock (shift-work), or you could have a jam-packed social life where sleep isn't your priority!
If your lifestyle is impacting on your sleeping time, you should try to re-arrange things so that you can get proper sleep.
Just staying up late every night, past your point of tiredness can hinder fertility, not to mention stressing can also play a role in infertility.
What causes you to be able to not fall asleep?
What Not To Do -
Improving your sleep
Constant sleep deprivation has been proven to affect your body, hormones and fertility. Researchers have shown that women who get less than 5 hours of sleep are more likely to be overweight and be holding onto a few extra kilos.
Being overweight can lower your fertility. Sleep loss also can make you feel more hungry, and if you start binging on food late at night, this becomes another factor which can also contribute to becoming overweight, lowering your fertility.
Your body tends to not metabolize carbohydrates as easily when you are suffering from constant sleep deprivation too, and this can lead to diabetes and insulin problems because your body stores the fat and leaves you with high levels of blood sugar.
Sleep problems can also be caused by common female hormonal imbalances such as PCOS, Fibroids, Endometriosis, Cysts, Thyroid Imbalance and PMS.
Really, when it comes to your fertility, it's important for you to catch the right amount of zzz's each night. Start trying to co-ordinate a good sleep pattern now. One where you will feel restored upon awakening. Once you do get pregnant (fingers crossed!), and have a baby, you will probably wish you took every chance to sleep before bubba came along!
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