The Saturday Standard · Five hours and your testosterone falls
VOL. 2 · MAY 16, 2026 Saturday morning. Coffee first. Five things. THE RESEARCH — Five Hours of Sleep Drops Your Testosterone In 2011, researchers at the University of Chicago restricted healthy young men to 5 hours of sleep per night for one week. Their daytime testosterone levels dropped 10 to 15% — a swing the average man doesn't see across an entire decade of normal aging. The good news: it bounces back. Once those men returned to normal sleep, their levels normalized. Testosterone...