Are you trying to conceive and wondering if your sleeping habits affect your fertility potential?
If you said yes, then you’re in the right place.
Sleep, Overall Health… and Fertility
Getting enough quality sleep is important for overall health and well-being.
You’ve probably heard that getting a good night’s rest will help with brain function or physical recovery… and that lack of sleep can lead to irritability, mood swings, and even depression.
Sleep is essential for the body to process emotions and regulate mood, and getting enough sleep can help improve your overall outlook on life.
So, it shouldn’t be too surprising that sleep can also affect your fertility!
Good quality sleep helps us to reset and rejuvenate allowing our mind and body to clear out the clutter that gathers in our minds. If you want your body to be healthy in preparation for pregnancy, it’s important for you to make sure that you’re replenished and rejuvenated.
Sleep and fertility really go together.
Here are some ways sleep can affect fertility:
- Hormonal Balance: Sleep plays a critical role in regulating all hormones in our body, and our sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH)) all are affected by sleep.
- Menstrual Cycle: Poor sleep quality has been linked to irregular periods, such as longer or shorter cycles, skipped periods, or anovulation (lack of ovulation). This makes it harder to get pregnant.
- Sperm Quality: Sleep quality and quantity also affect men! Studies have shown that men who get less sleep have lower sperm counts and reduced sperm motility, which can reduce the chances of fertilization.
- Stress Levels: Lack of sleep can increase stress levels, which negatively impacts fertility. High levels of stress hormones such as cortisol can interfere with the normal hormonal balance needed to make a baby.
- Immune System Function: Sleep is essential for a healthy immune system, and lack of sleep can compromise the immune system’s ability to fight off infections and diseases that can negatively impact fertility.
As you can see, getting enough high-quality sleep is crucial for both men and women who are trying to have a baby.
It’s recommended that you aim for 7-9 hours of sleep per night to maintain optimal fertility health. But CONSISTENT sleep is the most important.
You should ideally go to sleep and wake up around the same time in order to balance your circadian rhythm which helps with your mental, physical, and behavioral changes in every 24-hour cycle.
This kind of balance in your sleep will do your body and fertility really good.
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