Episode 56
Insomnia Research: Cortisol and the Growth Hormone Pulse
One in three adults has insomnia. The short follows how broken sleep keeps cortisol high at night and silences the deep-sleep growth hormone pulse, and the two peptides studied for each piece, Selank and ipamorelin.
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Insomnia Research: Cortisol and the Growth Hormone Pulse
Transcript
- Insomnia. One in three adults have it. And most people just live with it. But broken sleep is
- breaking everything else. This is your day with insomnia. You stared at the ceiling at 3am.
- Your morning coffee stopped working months ago. Your patience runs out by 2pm. Your workout gets
- weaker every week. Your skin shows it. Your mood shows it. Your numbers show it. Sleep loss doesn't
- just leave you tired, it sets off a chain reaction underneath. Sleep happens in cycles,
- with deep stages where your body repairs itself. But when sleep breaks down,
- those deep stages don't happen. Your nervous system stays in high gear. Your stress hormone,
- cortisol, never drops at night. Your growth hormone pulse, which only fires in deep sleep,
- stops firing. Your body can't recover. Your brain can't reset. Your appetite goes haywire.
- And tomorrow night the same. The loop can be broken. Two peptides, each targeting one of the broken pieces.
- Selank. A short calming peptide that quiets the nervous system without sedation.
- Stress hormones drop. Your mind slows down without dulling. You feel ready for sleep again.
- Ipamorelin.
- Taken pre-bed, it triggers the growth hormone pulse that should fire in deep sleep but stopped firing.
- With it, sleep deepens. Repair happens. You wake up restored. Quiet the mind.
- Trigger the pulse. Wake up rested. Together, your nights start to look different.
- Stress drops as you wind down. You drift off without fighting it. Deep sleep returns.
- Your hormones rebalance overnight.
- And tomorrow, your energy, your focus, your patience all start to come back.
- We call this the Drift Protocol. Two pre-filled pens.