Does sleep deprivation really prematurely age you?

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It feels it is more just temporary and you get restored to the normal condition with a good night of sleep. Especially skin ageing.

If you see pictures of people from around 100 years ago, they seem to be about the age they were. And they had much healthier lifestyle.

I feel that ageing your skin is something more to each persons genome. The scientific researches are very insipient and inconclusive.

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I’m paraphrasing from “why we sleep” by Matthew Walker who goes into the science of sleep and its effects, but short answer YES IT DOES.

Basically everything your body does it does worse without enough sleep. Your body, brain, skin, hormones which regulate appetite, all worse without sleep.

That book and personal anecdotal experience from a job where sustained sleep deprivation was common have convinced me that getting enough sleep is the single most important thing you can do.

Highly recommend the book. There is a good audio book version too.

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