A Swedish study on the relationship between sleep and youth shows that sleep has a significant impact on the age we feel.
Feeling and looking younger is something many people aspire to. There is no shortage of people who spend a fortune on medical products, spend days in the gym or resort to some very interesting methods just to look and feel younger. However, according to a new study, you don’t need to make such an intense effort to feel younger than you are! Scientists have managed to obtain some remarkable data at the end of a study on the relationship between sleep and youth. According to this, the answer to the question of whether sleep rejuvenates is yes. However, there are some things to pay attention to. Let’s look at the details together.
Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have conducted a remarkable study on the relationship between sleep and youth
Researchers examined the relationship between getting enough sleep and sleep deprivation with perceived age. The results are indeed quite surprising. Accordingly, it is possible to answer yes to the question of whether sleep rejuvenates. However, there are some points to be considered.
The study on the relationship between sleep and youth involved 429 people aged 18-70
In the first stage of the study, participants were asked how many nights in the last month they had not slept well and how old they felt on those days when they did not get enough sleep.
Within the scope of the study, it was determined that individuals felt 3 months older for each day they could not get full sleep.
In addition, it was revealed that people who had a full night’s sleep for a month felt 6 years younger!
On the other hand, valuable data on the sleep duration of different age groups and the resulting perceptions of age and youth were obtained throughout the research.
In the second phase of the study, 186 participants between the ages of 18 and 46 were asked how old they felt when they “slept for 4 hours two days in a row”
Volunteers who slept for only 4 hours for two consecutive days were found to feel about 4.5 years older.
Swedish study reveals how night people and day people react to lack of sleep
The study also observed that “morning people”, who like to be awake in the morning, and “night people”, who stay up all night, react differently to sleep loss. According to the study, morning people feel older than night people when they do not get a full night’s sleep. In contrast, morning birds feel younger when they get their full 9 hours of sleep.
Sleep is one of the factors that determine how old people feel, according to this remarkable study
According to Dr. Leonie Balter from Karolinska Institute, who works in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, sleep has a huge impact on how old people feel. In addition, Leonie Balter emphasizes the importance of the study by stating that if people can be made to feel younger, they will be socially and physically active and more willing to new experiences.
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