Contents:
- Medical Video: How Does Sleep Affect Your Face?
- Effects of sleep deprivation on facial appearance
- 1. Make your face look older
- 2. Triggering the appearance of pimples on the face
- 3. Generate large eye bags
- 4. Make facial skin dull
Medical Video: How Does Sleep Affect Your Face?
Do you often miss sleep at night? The effects of sleep deprivation that you often do can have an impact on the shape of your face. Without you realizing that sleep deprivation habits will actually change your face slowly. What parts of the face will change due to the effects of sleep deprivation?
Effects of sleep deprivation on facial appearance
In a study conducted in Sweden, comparing photos of groups of people who slept enough - sleeping at least 7 hours a night - with a group of people who only slept 3-5 hours a night. From the photos taken, the group of people who slept enough time was indeed fresher, healthier and not sluggish. From these studies some researchers stated that lack of sleep can change the appearance of your face. What are the changes?
1. Make your face look older
In some studies it was mentioned that someone who has a habit of insomnia and does not have enough time to sleep at night will look 10 years older than the original age. In the study mentioned that people who experience insomnia have the potential to have more wrinkles on the face compared to people who sleep enough.
In normal circumstances, the body will form collagen - a substance to maintain health and skin rejuvenation - when someone falls asleep. Collagen will prevent the body from experiencing premature aging by blocking the formation of wrinkles on the face. But when sleep is interrupted, collagen cannot be formed in normal amounts, because of that more wrinkles are formed.
2. Triggering the appearance of pimples on the face
When you don't have a regular and sufficient sleep time, it will affect your mental health and you will unconsciously feel depressed and stressed. The stress caused by the effects of sleep deprivation causes the hormone cortisol to increase the amount in the body. Meanwhile, the amount of cortisol hormone that is too high will cause the body to be susceptible to inflammation and inflammation, one of which is inflammation of the skin.
Acne is one form of inflammation that attacks your skin. So don't be surprised if you don't get enough sleep then in a few days the pimples appear on the face. In addition, the hormone cortisol will cause an increase in oil production on the face which will worsen the condition of the growing acne.
3. Generate large eye bags
Actually everyone has thin blood vessels under the eye area. When a person experiences sleep deprivation or fatigue, then naturally the blood vessels will become wider and darker which becomes eye bags. The more often you miss sleep time the more blood vessels under the eyes will be seen.
4. Make facial skin dull
The effect of sleep deprivation will also have an impact on the facial skin color that is increasingly dull. Sleep deprivation results in a weakened immune system, so the possibility of inflammation also increases. This increase in inflammation affects the production of collagen and hyaluronic acid which functions to maintain skin brightness. The fewer hyaluronic substances the body has, the skin will become more dull.
