What Happens To Your Skin When You Don’t Sleep?

   What Happens To Your Skin When You Don’t Sleep?

Not getting enough sleep takes away from your skin’s natural beauty. If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter or two, you know that a lack of sleep has a sneaky way of showing up on your skin despite your best efforts to keep it under wraps. But what really happens when you don’t get enough sleep?

Your body releases more cortisol, the stress hormone which can make you look and feel more stressed and tired. It causes the skin to become inflamed, which disintegrates its collagen. That means over time your skin will have less firmness and elasticity, which will show up as lines, wrinkles, dryness, and thinner skin.

Your body releases more of a hormone called glucocorticoid that disrupts the structure of the skin, putting you at greater risk of suffering from breakouts.

Your body doesn’t circulate blood efficiently to the skin, meaning that less oxygen and nutrients reach it, causing dullness and making your skin look older than it is.

You put yourself at risk of under-eye dark circles. These can crop up because when your body doesn’t get enough sleep it causes blood vessels under the skin in the eye area to dilate. This is what produces those dark patches.

Your body isn’t able to produce enough amounts of growth hormone – which repairs & renews cells and prevents premature aging. Essentially, your whole body needs to go into repair mode when you sleep.