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jf-190601-cortisol-low-testosterone — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview jf-190601-cortisol-low-testosterone. The excerpt begins at 00:38:28.960 and runs for 1 minute 6 seconds.

hormones? Yeah, regular sleep is a powerfully protective thing. It should be somewhere in the range of six to nine hours every night, but the regularity is very important. It becomes a built-in, almost a machine-like, once you get a schedule set. And any variation of that schedule puts the whole 24-hour cycle into a stress pattern. So it isn't just the number of hours, but the regularity with which you get those hours of sleep that is anti-stress. And hypertestosterone and DHEA are promoters of restorative sleep. Cortisol really interferes at all levels of sleep