S4E13- How Does Sleep Affect Testosterone?

Building Lifelong Athletes

How bad can it really be for your testosterone if you don't get enough sleep each night? Is it really that big of a deal? Does sleep even effect testosterone at all? Well that is the exact question in this week's podcast!

Chapters

00:00 - Intro

00:40 - Where did this idea start?

03:20 - What is the mechanism behind the relationship of sleep and testosterone?

06:30 - Sleep… miracle drug or worst nightmare

07:58 - Sleep quality

09:51 - Sleep Timing

11:43 - Sleep apnea

14:04 - Can I reverse this?

15:01 - How to sleep better

17:49 - Recap

18:28 - My take

23:48 - Outro

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References:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2011.07.060

https://doi.org/10.2147/NSS.S235136

https://doi.org/10.3389/frph.2023.1219239

https://doi.org/10.1111/andr.13496

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpnec.2022.100158

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0110

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-018-2485-2

https://doi.org/10.1530/EC-18-0548

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2012.04419.x

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18853931/

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