Have you ever woken up after a night of poor sleep, glanced in the mirror and thought, “I look tired?”
You’re not imagining it.
I am a neurologist who specializes in sleep medicine[1]. And though “beauty sleep” may sound like a fairy tale, a growing body of research confirms that sleep directly shapes how our skin looks[2], how youthful it appears[3] and even how attractive others perceive us[4] to be....
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