Sleep Restoration Programme

Chronic sleep disruption affects an estimated 30–40% of Singapore's working population, and its consequences extend far beyond tiredness. Poor sleep accelerates biological ageing through telomere attrition and epigenetic drift, impairs glucose metabolism and immune function, elevates cortisol and inflammatory cytokines, and significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and neurodegenerative conditions. Yet most…

NutraNourish's Sleep Restoration Programme applies functional medicine principles to identify and address the biological drivers of each patient's sleep dysfunction. The assessment begins with a comprehensive sleep history and the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire to characterise the patient's circadian phenotype (whether their sleep-wake preference is naturally early, intermediate, or delayed). This is combined with targeted biomarker testing selected from…

Hormonal drivers are assessed via DUTCH cortisol profiling (to identify HPA axis dysregulation — the most common biological cause of sleep-onset and sleep-maintenance insomnia), melatonin assessment, oestrogen and progesterone (particularly relevant in perimenopause, when nocturnal hot flushes and progesterone decline are major sleep disruptors), and thyroid function. Nutritional drivers assessed include magnesium, vitamin D, B6, tryptophan availability,…