Why you’re wired at 3am
Cortisol is your body’s survival alarm. It’s supposed to spike in the morning to wake you, then crash at night so you can rest. Magnesium is the off-switch that tells cortisol to power down at bedtime.
But in perimenopause, shifting estrogen and progesterone burn through your magnesium faster than your body can replace it. As magnesium drops, the off-switch jams — and cortisol stays high all night. So you lie there at 3am, wired and exhausted at the same time. And by afternoon, with the alarm still half-on, the smallest thing sets you off.
Refill the magnesium your hormones are burning — with a form that actually absorbs — and the off-switch flips back.



