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information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone, welcome

back. Let's cover a number of very helpful, insightful, and interesting studies regarding

male health, testosterone, and how we might be able to optimize testosterone levels and sexual function and performance.

And then pivot over to women and some therapeutics interventions for vaginal dryness, low libido, hot flashing, and for bone health.

And all of this is taken from this amazing stream of science that's

published across the world to help us better learn how to be healthy and vital

so we'll start off with a few studies here in the realm of male health the first

looks at sleep apnea there's this chicken or the egg debate regarding

poor sleep quality as in sleep apnea and low testosterone. So this meta-analysis of 18 studies

found that those with sleep apnea did have lower levels or at least in association with

lower levels of testosterone. There was also a maintenance of that observation even after

controlling for age and for weight because it is important to do so.

It is possible that what you're seeing is more of an artifact that those who are

overweight are more at risk for sleep apnea and also low testosterone.

So we can group people into cohorts according to weight and look to see does the association maintain

when controlling for either age or for weight? And it does. Now, the one very important finding

here, especially as we've been looking at some sleep studies over time, it's somewhat common that you will see,

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