Dr. Rhonda Patrick

I don't know where that comes into being able to determine that.

What happens to someone's hormones, like testosterone, for example, when they're in non-functional overtraining?

Sorry, I meant non-functional overreaching.

If you stay there, if you're not getting back into the functional overreaching.

Right.

But same exact curve, basically.

Okay.

So most...

People probably aren't.

I mean, there's athletes that might be consistently in non-functional overreaching, especially if they keep that vicious cycle of they're trying to train more to get better and they don't recover or they don't allow for enough recovery.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

They're not getting anywhere.

There's a few times where I get like, okay, I got to just not work out today because I just wake up and I feel tired.

Yep.

How much do you... On training days when you're working out hard, do you require more sleep?

That's actually...

Because you know, the opposite is true, right?

If you're not getting enough sleep, then it's going to affect your performance.

It's going to affect your adaptations.