Paul Saladino· MD
if you are not getting enough sleep and by that I mean eight hours those of you who think you can thrive on four to six are just deluding yourselves trust me if you're not getting eight hours of sleep you are cheating yourself in terms of all of your sex hormones whether you're a woman and you're thinking estrogen or you're a man and you're thinking testosterone is your main sex hormone and you can see that on your blood work you can see that on things like LH and FSH which will go down if you're not sleeping enough and you'll see that on cortisol that cortisol the testosterone ratio is critical to really tell if you are being optimal