How You Sleep is More Than Skin-Deep
Forget everything you've heard about sleep. Eight hours a night helps you fight bugs and viruses. It will help you lose weight. It can be affected by snoring. But now, in addition to how much you sleep, the quality of your sleep is even more important. A new study has found how well you sleep can affect your skin "function," and aging. According to a story at newswise.com, the study found that "poor sleepers had increased signs of skin aging and slower recovery from a variety of environmental stressors, such as disruption of the skin barrier or ultraviolet (UV) radiation." Now when I tell you who commissioned the study, you might have a few reservations. It was Estee Lauder. But you ignore the conclusions at your own risk. "Our study is the first to conclusively demonstrate that inadequate sleep is correlated with reduced skin health and accelerates skin aging," newswise.com quotes Elma Baron, MD, director of the Skin Study Center at UH C...