Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology (INE): Body Freedom Foundations – Pillar 2: Rest and Relaxation – Sleep: Advanced Sleep Resources
Body Freedom Foundations
Pillar 2: Rest and Relaxation
Advanced Sleep Resources
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This page offers extra and advanced resources to help you to guide clients to maximize sleep quality and hormone balance.
The more they can optimize, deepen, and enhance their sleep, the more they optimize the body’s repair mechanisms and balance hormones.
Action Plan
#1: Maximize sleep time by learning and understanding sleep cycles.
Optimizing Sleep for Hormone and Blood Sugar Balance: This pdf from the Sweet Spot Solution program will educate you on the hormones affected by poor quality sleep, the habits that can contribute to poor quality sleep, and how to understand the sleep stages and sleep cycles.
You’ll also learn techniques for optimizing sleep by learning how to keep a sleep log, how to calculate sleep cycles, and what supplements/herbs may help your client to get good quality sleep.
#2: Learn how to enhance fat burning and blood sugar balance during sleep.
The Hormones That Dance In Your Sleep: This document from the Sweet Spot Solution program will teach you about the delicate interaction among the hormones activated during sleep.
#3: Encourage clients to schedule a 3-day sleep vacation.
When they schedule a time to do a 3-day “sleep vacation” of 3 days in a row where they sleep 10 hours or more and stay in bed relaxing as much as possible.
#4: Refer to additional sleep references and resources for more reading.
References for Sleep and Hormone Research: use these references and resources to guide you in making recommendations to optimize sleep.
