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Wrinkles, dark circles, skin irritations
Lack of sleep makes you old. People who sleep too little risk wrinkles, dark circles and skin irritation. The result of a frightening experiment.
How much sleep does the human need? Seven, eight or nine hours? There are people who get along with six hours of sleep. How many hours of sleep a man or woman needs varies from person to person. One thing is certain: lack of sleep is unhealthy.
Lack of sleep increases the risk of diabetes and obesity. Consequences that are known. What about long-term consequences of lack of sleep ? Consequences that will not be visible until 20, maybe 30 years from now?
Who does not know it? A night of sleep and too little sleep. The look in the mirror: a horror. Tired eyes, a dull complexion, skin irritations around the nose and mouth. The night left its mark - for one day, at most two. They think! People who sleep too little risk wrinkles, dark circles and skin irritation. Lack of sleep makes you old . The skin forgives nothing.
The portal buzzfeed.com has ventured an experiment. What do men and women look like in 20 years, who now sleep too little? Like most of us.
Lack of sleep promotes dark circles. The reason for this: fluid that accumulates under the eyes and become visible as dark rings. The skin tension relaxes and the facial muscles relax.
Those who sleep too little, get wrinkles. The skin becomes thinner, the resilience decreases. The result: deep-seated wrinkles that can not be creamed off.
Lack of sleep ensures the release of the stress hormone cortisol. This excess is not only responsible for obesity, but also for skin irritation, red spots and dry spots .
While we sleep, especially many growth hormones are released . Also known as the fountain of youth, growth hormone regulates cell renewal, builds muscle and stimulates fat burning . If we sleep too little, the secretion of growth hormones will remain.
Sleep makes you beautiful, the importance of beauty sleep is not unfounded. Sleep more! Give yourself seven, maybe even eight or nine hours of sleep a night. A single night of sleep forgives your skin, a sleepless life does not. More old people and how you can say goodbye to you can be found here.
The full-length experiment:
