Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Testosterone Peaks at 7 AM. This is what happens. #testosterone #morningwood #health

15 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Short YouTube health clip by Anne Truong MD explaining that testosterone is produced at night in the testicles, rises during sleep (particularly during REM/dreaming), and is said to peak at about 7 AM—linked to the common experience of morning erections. The speaker also frames nighttime (roughly 10 PM–6 AM) as a restorative period when the body heals and increases hormone production.

Questions this video answers

7 AM

Rapid eye movement (REM) / dreaming state

At night in the testicles

Approximately 10 PM to 6 AM

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We can have a When your mind is in a restful, peaceful state. So your body heals at nighttime from 10pm to 6am and when it heals, it starts to make more hormones. So testosterone is being made at night in the testicles. And as you sleep through the night, the testosterone level increases and it peaks at 7am that's why when you go to bed, your body start to make testosterone. And in the morning when you get up and go to bathroom, you notice, oh, I got a morning here. Again, morning is really more nighttime. It's a cumulative and that it happens when you're in rapid eye movement, when you're dreaming state, but it's also an indication that your mind need to rest as well.