Sleep & Stress · 5 min read

Your 3 AM wake-up is cortisol, not anxiety.

By Dr. Gurpreet Singh, MBBS · MD · 30years · Published 30 Jan 2025
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If you fall asleep fine and wake at 3 AM with a buzzing mind, you are not anxious. Your cortisol curve is inverted.

The fix isn't pharmacological

Light exposure timing, evening glucose stability, stress decompression rituals, magnesium glycinate. Often: a real conversation with someone who's not your phone.

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Written byDr. Gurpreet Singh, MBBS · MD · 30years

Functional medicine clinician. Women's health lead at AmritCode. Writes about insulin, PCOS, perimenopause and why "lifestyle" is not a dirty word when it's backed by real biomarkers.

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