Wellness and Lifestyle – December 30, 2025
The Importance of Sleep for Health and Skin Health: Your Most Underrated Performance Lever
Sleep acts as your body’s overnight repair system, promoting collagen synthesis, strengthening the skin barrier, lowering inflammatory markers, and stabilising hormones so skin looks brighter, feels calmer, and responds better to treatments. Poor or fragmented sleep elevates cortisol, disrupts the gut microbiome, weakens immune balance, and slows recovery, often showing up as reactivity, breakouts, prolonged redness post-treatment, and a cycle of dullness despite consistent skincare.