Simple Tips to Get Your Beauty Sleep

Increase your melatonin levels for better sleep and healthier skin

Alongside prioritising wound healing and skin cell renewal during sleep, your body also uses slumberland to produce optimal amounts of melatonin, a hormone made by the pineal gland in the brain.

As well as setting your body’s circadian rhythm, melatonin helps preserve a youthful look. As you age, the body’s melatonin production decreases, which contributes to increased wrinkles, finding it hard to fall asleep at night and waking up in the morning feeling drowsy. (And also explains why kids feel cranky without enough sleep but never look it!)

So how can you increase your production of this powerful beauty sleep hormone?

First of all, consider turning an activity that lets you unwind into your bedtime routine.

Because worry, anxiety, and stress trigger the body’s ‘fight or flight’ response, they tend to cause an increase in two dominant sleep preventing hormones adrenaline and cortisol.

So whether it’s unrolling your yoga mat, meditating, running a bath, sipping chamomile tea, reading, journaling, or talking to the dog, create your bedtime routine and stick to it. That way, your body will begin to associate your new routine with bedtime and sleep.

Secondly, make your new routine anywhere but your bed. Your body is smart. So smart that even scrolling your meditation app propped up on pillows trains your body to associate bedtime with phone time.

Try to keep time under the covers for sleep and sex only. That way, your bedtime routine will begin the wind-down process, and sliding in between the sheets sends a direct message that that day is done and it’s time to rest.

Try the ‘don’t dine after nine’ tip and avoid spicy foods at dinner. To help your body maintain its circadian rhythm, avoid stimulating drinks like coffee and green tea after 3…

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