The golden hour of fast-sleeping beauty

It is well known that quality sleep can have a positive impact on beauty and health, but what can be done to improve the quality of sleep?

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Sleep is important for physical recovery

Sleep allows our brain and body to rest, which are fully functioning during the day, and is important for the maintenance of life. Adults need 6.5 to 8 hours of sleep per day. This amount of time allows us to reap the benefits of beauty and health while getting comfortable and quality sleep.

The function of sleep is to allow the body and brain to rest and memory to be organized. Once the problem of insufficient sleep time and poor quality occurs, these functions of sleep will not be fully utilized. As a result, when you wake up the next morning, your body and skin will be in poor condition.

From a cosmetic point of view, it is impossible to maintain good skin condition if continuously damaged skin cells are not repaired and nutrients are not fully utilized. Therefore, sleep plays an important role in making sure that all the efforts made that day are effective and that the next day goes smoothly and completely.

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The relationship between growth hormone production and skin

The relationship between sleep and beauty is important because of the growth hormone secreted during sleep. Growth hormone is a hormone that is present in the cells and bones of children and promotes growth. In adults who have stopped growing, growth hormone performs the function of repairing and regenerating cells damaged during daytime activities and maintaining normal bone density. Because growth hormone is inextricably linked to the repair and regeneration of damaged skin cells, it has a cosmetic effect on adults to prevent aging.

Growth hormone is secreted most during the initial deep sleep period after going to sleep. During childhood, growth hormone, which is necessary for growth, is secreted in large amounts and remains in high amounts until young adulthood, when sleep levels are deeper. As we get older, sleep becomes lighter and the amount of growth hormone secreted decreases. If problems such as irregularity in life and inability to maintain sufficient deep sleep occur, its secretion will also decrease.

For our skin to be repaired, it is crucial to maintain a high level of growth hormone production. Therefore, deep sleep, which promotes its production, is particularly important. The "golden hour of beauty", as it is often called, is inextricably linked to the time when growth hormone production is at its highest. "From 22:00 to 2:00 a.m. is the prime time for the secretion of hormones that have a cosmetic effect on the skin, so it is important to get enough sleep during this time." I believe many people have heard of this statement.

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Create your golden hour

For people who can guarantee a daily routine of going to bed at 22:00 and waking up at 6:00 a.m., the above statement is valid. However, for many modern people who cannot go to bed on time at 22:00 every night, the situation is different. But it is not true that if you cannot guarantee to go to bed at 22:00, the golden hour will not come.

The secretion of growth hormone is not fixed at a certain moment of the day, but the secretion reaches its peak about one hour after going to sleep, and thereafter, its content in the blood remains high for some time. In other words, for people who go to sleep at 22:00, 23:00 to 2:00 am is the so-called "prime time for beauty", and for people who go to sleep at 24:00, 1:00 to 3:00 am the next day is the "prime time". The "golden hour" is not a fixed period, but 1 to 3 hours after going to sleep.

Our bodies are constantly producing various hormones every day, each playing its role in sustaining life when necessary. Growth hormones are secreted in large quantities one hour after going to sleep, while irregular sleep times can have various negative effects on our bodies.

Both daytime sleep and nighttime sleep can lead to a higher production of growth hormones. If you naturally fall asleep while receiving a body massage, you can get a good massage from the outside while secreting growth hormone from the inside of your body.

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Ritualize sleep

High-quality sleep requires three main points falling asleep quickly, sleeping calmly, and waking up refreshed.

The important point to getting quality sleep is to fall asleep. If you are one of those people who cannot fall asleep quickly, learn to perform a programmed "sleep ritual"! The human body temperature enters its highest value of the day at 3:00 p.m. When the night falls, some people are late to sleep when it is time to go to bed, and these people generally have the characteristics of body temperature that can not fall normally. Therefore, you can try to "half bath" in the lower temperature of 38 ℃ to 39 ℃ water, to create an environment to raise and then lower the body temperature. After that, dim the lights in the room, listen to music in the bed, read a book, and light some aromatic materials that can relax the body and mind, etc., to establish a set of methods that can make you go to sleep quickly, like a daily ritual, one by one, and make it a habit.

The key to getting quality sleep for beauty and health is to create a routine that suits you to go to bed and wake up on time so that you can get more growth hormone secretion through quality sleep.