My opinion on low testosterone

#1
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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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).
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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