You’re probably aware of the importance of sleep to your brain function, but did you know that not sleeping can actually shorten your life? According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, severe lack of sleep can shock your immune system like stress or even quadruple your risk of having a stroke.
But it’s not just your brain or your overall health that can benefit from sleep. Sleeping Beauty’s name really isn’t a coincidence when you think about the positive effects that sleep has the appearance of your skin. There are several benefits to having a healthy sleeping schedule that you may not even realize.
Your daily routine needs a nightly relief
Sleep is the perfect stress reliever because your brain shuts down and isn’t constantly bombarded with things you need to do. The reduction of stress while you sleep helps decrease the number of wrinkles in your face that form over time due to the stresses in your everyday life.
Sleep also relieves a continual gravitational pull, which causes lines and wrinkles. When you’re lying down, your skin is no longer being pulled down by gravity like it is throughout the day, which helps diminish these visible changes in your skin.
Your daily routine also consists of lots of interactions, which means lots of facial expressions. Although you don’t realize it, you make them more often than you think. When you sleep, your face relaxes and your skin revitalizes from the many expressions your face makes in a day.
Lack of sleep can mean lack of beauty
If you start to notice dark circles or bags under your eyes, you can usually associate them with an absence of sleep because it causes the blood vessels to expand directly under a very thin layer of skin under your eye. That expansion, along with the paling of skin color from lack of sleep, will produce bluish rings that can cause you to look up to twice your age.
Remember that sleep isn’t interfering with your workday. As much time as you think you’re wasting spending eight hours a night sleeping, you’re actually doing yourself a favor. Sleep deprivation can cause you to be more stressed and create noticeable changes in your skin. You may just be tired, but your skin tells others you’re irritable, moody or even depressed.
With all the things you put your skin through, give it the rejuvenation it needs during the night and get your full eight hours in. You’ll start to notice a remarkable difference in the way your skin looks and feels. Start as early as tonight because you deserve it.
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