Hormone Health Hub: Expert Insights on Testing, Balance & Better Living — Sleep environment

Understanding your sleep-related hormone measurements can add useful information to your interest in sleep, daily energy and routine. Advanced sleep hormone testing brings several complementary markers together, showing their measured values at different collection points. The benefit is a structured laboratory profile that adds detail to your own observations about the sampled day.The Advanced Sleep Hormone Test (UDH II) from Hormone Lab UK uses four dried urine collections. It combines a melatonin metabolite, free cortisol, free cortisone, norepinephrine, epinephrine and creatinine measurements, with specialist laboratory interpretation included.A wider view of sleep-related markersThe UDH II profile measures six markers at each...

By Nina Silberstain, BA.   Adequate sleep has long been known to be vital to good health but not getting enough sleep can be detrimental on many levels. Sleeplessness at night results in lack of alertness during the day, impairing your judgment and increasing the risk for accidents. Chronic sleeplessness can affect the appearance of your skin, reduce libido and overall vitality, decrease cognitive function, contribute to weight gain, and increase the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Your quality of sleep can be affected by many things including perimenopause (hot flashes, night sweats, sharp drop in melatonin over age...