My opinion on low testosterone

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Hey, I thought to mention this in the weak men thread but maybe a post about it would be better

Just wanted to share some thoughts

Imo, testosterone has nothing or very little to do with plastics or radio waves or whatever else






I think, besides being overweight, not training, or drinking alcohol, the main cause for low testosterone is:


Sleep deprivation





Last year I started to struggle with sleep deprivation due to reasons, and I got black eye bags from the lack of sleep.

I thought to look around to see if others had them too, and found out, everyone has big eye bags, I looked into it and apparently many many people are sleep deprived.






Sleep is when testosterone is produced / released. So you can have an otherwise healthy lifestyle, fit body, and train a lot, you should have maxed out test with that, but sleep deprivation = low test








Removing unhealthy weight, quitting alcohol or other substances, removes the things that massively lower test production.



Adding a fit body, training, a healthy lifestyle, adds things that massively increase test production.





But that production happens during sleep.

So bad sleep = low test





If you look into places like the self improvement scene, youtubers who promote trt, and give plastics or radio waves as excuses for them having low natural test, also talk about how their sleep is very very bad.
 
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Although btw, if you want to stop the BPA chemical from plastic from affecting your hormones, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries do that
 
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Zoinks52 said:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S138994572100544X
Apparently short term sleep dep does not have effect but total does, esp if you stay deprived for 24 hrs. Sounds about right, I guess.

Anyways regardless of T sleep is super important...I have been feeling way better and have finally lost weight consistently since I started getting better sleep (7 to 9 hrs consistent).
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Congratulations on the weight loss man that's amazing

Yeah but usually people are not sleep deprived for just one day, they are sleep deprived for weeks or months or years, that results in a way worse effect than the 10-15% lower test that you get with just one day of sleep deprivation


And it makes sense since sleep is when your body produces test

Plus sleep deprivation massively increases cortisol, which has an inverse corelation with test


more cortisol = less test
 
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"Do you think you got enough sleep this past week? Can you recall the last
time you woke up without an alarm clock feeling refreshed, not needing
caffeine? If the answer to either of these questions is “no,” you are not alone.
Two-thirds of adults throughout all developed nations fail to obtain the
recommended eight hours of nightly sleep.

I doubt you are surprised by this fact, but you may be surprised by the
consequences. Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night
demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer.
Insufficient sleep is a key lifestyle factor determining whether or not you will
develop Alzheimer’s disease. Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions
for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would
be classified as pre-diabetic. Short sleeping increases the likelihood of your
coronary arteries becoming blocked and brittle, setting you on a path toward
cardiovascular disease, stroke, and congestive heart failure. Fitting Charlotte
Brontë’s prophetic wisdom that “a ruffled mind makes a restless pillow,” sleep
disruption further contributes to all major psychiatric conditions, including
depression, anxiety, and suicidality."



I started to read Why We Sleep and this is what it starts with
 
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"Every component of wellness,
and countless seams of societal fabric, are being eroded by our costly state of
sleep neglect: human and financial alike. So much so that the World Health
Organization (WHO) has now declared a sleep loss epidemic throughout
industrialized nations.
II It is no coincidence that countries where sleep time
has declined most dramatically over the past century, such as the US, the UK,
Japan, and South Korea, and several in western Europe, are also those
suffering the greatest increase in rates of the aforementioned physical
diseases and mental disorders."
 
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