Beauty sleep

Sleep facts - Beauty sleep

Een schoonheidsslaapje, werkt dat nou echt? Ja, zo blijkt uit verschillende onderzoeken. Vergeet dure crèmes. Van slapen word je mooier! Dit doet slaap allemaal voor je uiterlijk.

1. Met 8 uur slaap zie je er op je aantrekkelijkst uit
   Een Zweedse studie toont aan dat mensen die te weinig slapen als minder aantrekkelijk en gezond worden beoordeeld.
2. Sleep reduces dark circles under your eyes
   Dark circles are an obvious side effect of sleep deprivation. Too little sleep causes collagen under the eyes to break down, making dark blood vessels more visible.
3. Sleep makes wrinkles less visible
   Everyone over 35 is familiar with sleep wrinkles, the creases in the face that struggle to disappear. Getting enough sleep (at least 7 hours) makes wrinkles less visible.
4. Slaap herstelt je huid
   Niet alleen je organen herstellen tijdens de slaap. Ook je huid doet dat. Dit komt door de aanmaak van groeihormonen. Slaapgebrek kan de conditie van de huid serieus ondermijnen. Het leidt namelijk tot een verhoging van het stresshormoon cortisol, met als gevolg verminderde collageenaanmaak.
5. Sleep makes your hair more beautiful
   Your hair also benefits from restorative work during sleep. Too little sleep can lead to dull hair and even hair loss. Did you know that your hair also grows faster when you sleep?
6. Sleep keeps you slim
   The U.S. National Academy of Science showed that people who sleep only 5 hours for 5 days in a row gain an average of one pound more in that period.

Immune System

Short nights are also bad for your immune system. British scientists discovered that after only 6 short nights, more than 700 genes start working harder or less hard. Among other things, this affects your immune system. People who get only 6 hours of sleep per night for long periods of time are more likely to suffer from all kinds of disorders - from obesity and concentration disorders to cardiovascular diseases.

Healthy foods can also help produce collagen ( the protein that fights dark circles), for example, blueberries and dark greens, such as kale.

Sleeping well

Goed en diep slapen is vooral een kwestie van hormonen: het knuffelhormoon oxytocine, het gelukshormoon serotonine en het slaaphormoon melatonine. Wat een positieve invloed heeft op je schoonheidsslaapje.

Through our food

What we eat and drink affects these hormones. But so does the time of day when we do so. Milk is one of the largest sources of melatonin. Therefore, a glass of warm milk before bedtime is not so crazy.

Magnesium is misschien wel de beste stof om beter te slapen. Magnesium vind je in noten, zaden (sesamzaad), pinda’s, granen, bonen en bananen.

Better not

There are also many foods that have a bad influence on healthy sleep. The best known is coffee. But tea and fatty and heavy foods also do not promote sleep.

And a nightcap? Better not. Alcohol leads to restless sleep.

Regularity

A good sleep schedule also helps. Go to bed around the same time every night, that way you keep regularity in your biological clock.

Gezond slaapklimaat

One bed is not the other. Good tailor-made advice is therefore crucial. And did you know that, after personal problems, an unhealthy sleeping environment is the biggest disruptor of sleep? If you value healthy sleep, our FreshBed is the solution. FreshBed is also the answer to sleep problems resulting from disorders such as asthma, allergy or rheumatism.

(source: dagennachtrust.nl)