Estée Lauder Companies Inc. partnered with University Hospitals Case Medical Center, released a study showing that people who sleep less at night have poorer skin health and skin that ages more quickly. This is the first study of its kind that links sleep deprivation and skin damage.
Participants of this study were sixty premenopausal women between the ages of 30 and 49. These women were then broken up into two groups, good sleepers, who got seven to nine hours of sleep a night, and troubled sleepers, who got less than five hours.
Results revealed that the intrinsic age score (natural aging) of the women in the troubled sleepers group was twice as high as women in the good sleepers group. A higher intrinsic age score means more fine lines, loss of facial skin elasticity and other signs of aging. The skin of the high quality sleepers was also able to recover more quickly from environmental stressors than the poor quality sleepers. The good sleepers had better self images than their counterparts, and poor sleepers were twenty percent more likely to be obese.
Estée Lauder’s executive director of global research and development-skin biology, stated that more related research would need to be conducted before Estée Lauder could create products to help remove internal damage from the skin cells.
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