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When people are not sleeping well or enough, stress hormones, in particular cortisol, shift to peaking later in the day, and those elevated cortisol levels later in the day cause a bunch of different problems in both males and females, many of which impact fertility.
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sleep is probably the number one thing that people don't do that does impact their reproductive hormone system and therefore can impact egg and sperm quality because sleep is when you have cellular repair and when you can drop your inflammation levels
When you sleep, this is when your body is going to get rid of some excess chronic inflammation, lowers our inflammatory markers. We know that when we get less sleep, it's going to cause us to have more cellular stress, more oxidative stress. Your gonadotropen, so FSH and LH, are released from the brain in the early morning hours.
And we know that dayto-day consistency is also impactful in fertility. So, not just the length of time, but really having that good circadian rhythm is so important for your hormones.
10 minutes of bright outdoor light within the first hour of waking anchors the circadian phase and improves sleep onset that night.
Morning sunlight exposure shifts the cortisol awakening response forward, improving daytime alertness.
Long-term morning sunlight reduces age-related macular degeneration risk.
Sleep regularity predicts all-cause mortality more strongly than sleep duration.
Tracking deep sleep on a wearable accurately reflects EEG-measured slow-wave sleep.
Caffeine has a half-life long enough that consumption after 2pm measurably degrades deep sleep in slow metabolizers.