Sleep, nutrition, and hormones are deeply interconnected — and when one falters, the others follow. Functional medicine treats these systems as a triad essential for repair, metabolism, and long-term health. This article explores why sleep is often the most overlooked driver of hormonal balance and recovery.

Different types of stress disrupt different phases of sleep, creating fatigue, anxiety, and metabolic instability. By identifying which sleep stages are impaired — and which stress patterns are driving them — functional medicine helps individuals restore restorative sleep and build true, sustainable resilience.

Sleep is one of the most powerful diagnostic windows in functional medicine. Virtual evaluations help uncover hormonal imbalances, metabolic patterns, gut issues, and nervous system dysregulation that affect sleep — without leaving home.

Sleep is one of the most powerful forms of medicine your body receives — yet it’s often the first thing disrupted by stress, hormones, or daily overwhelm. This article from the Laguna Institute of Functional Medicine explores how sleep shapes longevity and how functional medicine restores deep, restorative rest by addressing cortisol rhythms, gut health, circadian alignment, and nervous system balance.

You can’t heal if you don’t sleep. In this post, I share how functional medicine sleep protocols repair your gut, protect your heart, and slow aging from the inside out. Drawing from my experience as a functional cardiologist and founder of the Laguna Institute of Functional Medicine, I explain how programs like Well12 and GLP Rescue use science-backed strategies to rebalance stress hormones, repair circadian rhythms, and help you wake rested, renewed, and resilient.

Are you tired of waking up tired? If you’ve been dragging through your days, relying on caffeine to stay afloat, you’re not alone. Millions of people underestimate the power of quality sleep—and it’s silently sabotaging their health, productivity, and even their lifespan. But what if one small change could transform how you sleep and how you feel?