The Benefits of Sleep for the Skin

If you are woman in your  30's like me. Sleep is entity that can be lacking.  Yet sleep is essential to maintain your balance, your energy level while also managing your stress and weight. It is also important to use your more expensive organic/natural night creams and serums because when you sleep your skin is repairing itself while your body restores and renews itself. 

Sleep helps to repair your body.
Your body produces extra protein molecules while you're sleeping that helps strengthen your ability to fight infection and stay healthy. These molecules help your immune system mend your body at a cellular level when you are stressed or have been exposed to compromising elements such as pollutants and infectious bacteria.

Sleep reduces stress.
A good night's sleep can help lower blood pressure and elevated levels of stress hormones, which are a natural result of today's fast paced lifestyle. High blood pressure can be life threatening and the physical effects of stress can produce "'wear and tear" on your body and degenerate cells, which propel the aging process. Sleep helps to slow these effects and encourages a state of relaxation.

 The chart below shows the approximate amount of hours of sleep needed by age.

If you don't sleep or get enough of it, your body will shut down or release the toxins through your skin.

Sleep Requirements by Age

Newborns (0-2 months old)	12-18 hours
Infants (3-11 months old)	14-15 Hours
Toddlers (1-3 years old)l	12-14 Hours
Pre-schoolers (3-5 years old)	11-13 Hours
School-aged Children (5-10 years old)	10-11 Hours
Teens (11-17 years old)	8-9 Hours
Adults	7-9 Hours