I sleep about 5 hours a night. Is it too little?

Its due to your testosterone increase. Now you know that how much energy pmo used to drain from us. However, you need a sleep of 7-8 hrs. Try to have a green tea before sleep.

 

That is absolutely too little. If you have to get up at 5am, go to sleep earlier.

You should not be getting any less than 7 hours sleep in the longer term.

If you've had trouble with relapses and resets, I can guarantee that your low sleep is probably the #1 or #2 contributing factor to that. ALL of my resets/relapses always happened on days where I didn't get an adequate amount of sleep.

Over time with sleep that low you'll develop low testosterone and sexual issues. You'll also be unable to think clearly, and so judgement will suffer, which is why the reset/relapse thing comes into play since you'll be much more likely to convince yourself that "it's okay just this once".

Honestly I've tried a lot of things over the years, exercise, healthy eating, meditation, working out, consuming lots of knowledge, running a business, NoFap, etc, and all of these things are very conductive to a healthy happy life - but the foundation at the base of all that is good quality sleep. The moment you start getting insufficient sleep, even if you're doing all the other things I mentioned, they're not going to be able to give you their full benefits.

In my opinion this should be your number 1 priority to fix now. When you start getting 7-9 hours every single night, you'll notice the difference very quickly. You'll also notice it's 100x easier to keep a NoFap streak going too! So win/win

PS if you don't have one already, buy yourself a sleep mask. You'll fall asleep much faster with one, and you'll be able to sleep longer and deeper. They improve the quality of your sleep since normally our sleep is regulated by a chemical called Melatonin, which is released in response to darkness. Since we have standby lights from computers/tvs/other electronics, street lamps outside, and other artificial sources of light bothering us at night, Melatonin production and your quality of sleep suffers greatly.

You have two choices for ideal Melatonin production: Completely black out your room (i.e. unplug all electronics, use blackout blinds, block out the crack under your door) at night. Or the simpler option: Buy a $5 sleep mask and wear it.

 

Not expert or anything, but according to my fitness book "Bigger Leaner Stronger", a minimum of 7 hours of sleep is recommended.

 

Its all quite subjective.Every person has different sleep characteristics.If you are not sleepy/tired in the morning,then there is no problem with your current schedule( P.S,6 hours is the ideal amount of sleep )

 

Has nothing to do with testosterone increase.

You will have extra energy from PMO but this is short lived and you will acquire sleep debt.

 

And what is the source of that extra energy then !!!

 

Sleep is paramount for good health.
I aim to sleep at least 8 hours and feel best if I hit around 9 hours and/or wake up naturally (without alarm clock).

 

I don't see any problems here. I sleep 7-9 hours a day and get really tired after waking up. I feel better when i sleep 5-6 hours i just couldn't manage to do that. Quality over quantity. Sometimes i sleep only 2 hours and feel like 6 hours, wow, but it doesn't always happen. I prefer to sleep for regular hours 5 days a week, then less sleep on the other 2. (6-7 hours from Monday to Friday, 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday), though they say keeping sleep cycle stable is better