Sleep deprivation is the new being drunk

While you're still half-drunk at the office appearing. Okay, something you might have gotten away with in your student days, but in the adult world something you probably won't do so quickly. Yet we all do something that might be even worse. You do it, your colleague does it, your own boss probably even. And so do I. Regularly, in fact. Not enough sleep. We all know it's important for our health, yet we often only manage a meager six to seven hours per night. Think twice. Research has been done on this by Tracis Bradberry, psychologist and author of the book ‘Emotional Intelligence 2.0’. What turns out? ‘Being sleep deprived at work is as bad as being drunk.’ Yes girlfriend, you read that right: you can now just as well stumble straight from that afterparty to work.

Sleep is good for our brains; you know it, I know it. Our brain breaks down toxic substances during the night that we automatically produce with every activity throughout the day. Those substances are only broken down when we are in dreamland. If we don't sleep or sleep too little, those substances remain in our brain, which ultimately leads to us being able to process less information, being less creative, and often not thinking clearly. But that's not the only thing we have to deal with. Sleep deprivation also produces stress hormones like cortisol, and too much cortisol causes our immune system to plummet, gives us stress, and gives us wrinkles. Cortisol breaks down collagen, and that is precisely essential to keep our skin smooth, tight, and elastic.

Those meager six hours under the covers give you wrinkles and stress. If you easily hit eight to nine hours, you'll live healthier, longer, and tighter. And as I told you earlier, sleeping also makes you super slim.

Sleep deprivation stimulates the production of ghrelin, and too much ghrelin makes you hungry. Additionally, it inhibits the production of leptin, which means your stomach is a bottomless pit and that bag of KitKats will easily be empty by four o'clock this afternoon.

So, dear girls, more sleep is needed. It makes you slim, healthy, happy, and drop-dead gorgeous. No injection, supplement, or boot camp class can compete with that.