How important is a restful night of sleep? Is quality more important than quantity? Can getting less sleep lead to weight gain? Sleep is a subject matter I have written a fair amount about in my blogs and discuss with every patient at my practice in...

Difficulty sleeping is one of the more common symptoms during the hormonal transition of peri-menopause and menopause. Here's what the research has to say about how hormones affect sleep. First off, progesterone. This hormone is responsible for our deepest sleep cycle, non-REM sleep, primarily by affecting...