Through the typical college life of a Freshman student I found myself constantly being tired all of the time. I never quite understood why i was like that, I knew sleep had a slight factor to it but I always thought that if I just sleep later in the day it wont really impact my energy levels or my daily life. Then the second week of school hit me and it hit me hard I was dowsing off in class all the time. Missing keys thing like homework assignment due dates and the answers to hard math problems that we go over. So I decided to take a look at what I could to do improve my energy levels.

Then after I researched about sleep patterns and why men tend to get tired throughout the day. I found out that the reason this happens and occurs is even though I am getting a certain amount of hours of sleep per night then getting more during the day the body needs other things to stay healthy and full of energy.  For instance in this men’s health article it says testosterone levels play a role in whether or not people will be tired. Indicating to keep our testosterone levels from being at a unhealthy low being more actively physically plays a huge role on counteracting being tired all the time. Which is kinda ironic that we have to do something that physically exert ourselves for us to feel less tired. So less watching Netflix on my bed and more time going for a run or playing a sport. Then this got me thinking what about the opposite side of things? Why are women so tired to do things all the time? 

This lead me into doing research about how women are affected by fatigue and where it comes from. After a extensive search through google  I found out that physical exercise also would improve energy levels for women but also whether or not they are feeling upset about something. This tend to be more along the lines of hormonal swings of emotional back and forth causing extreme stress leading them to be tired more often then men are. The mood swings drain most of the energy out of women causing them to be less social and less out going. So next time you hear a girl says “i”m just tired” it might be because she is upset about something and thinking about it makes her physically exhausted.  The article also talks about right amount of sleep and the diet they go on.  This correlation between levels of hormones and energy plays a role in schoolwork, being social or even just doing everyday activities like getting up. I hope this brought some insight and some motivation to not watch that next episode on Netflix and to be active.