why it seems like our body heals better when we are sleep?

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Like, currently it’s a big sun burn I got this weekend, but I seems to noticed this with other injuries, it seems sometimes the injury stay the same all day long(~18 h), but then, after a night of sleep (~8 h) it’s suddenly way better then before

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There are two things at play. The first is that your body isn’t using much energy so it can focus everything on healing. The other is that 8 hours more or less go by without you noticing. So you are healing at a fair rate during the day, but you don’t notice as much because it’s happening slowly while you’re awake. When you sleep, you suddenly wake up and the equivalent of half a day’s worth of healing has suddenly happened.

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