If your body can’t repair itself effectively, you are more likely to suffer from premature ageing.
While you sleep your body is busy repairing your brain, restoring some of the substances depleted while you’re awake. It also carries out repair work on your tissues and skin.
If you’re not getting enough sleep you are missing out on this important maintenance work. Suffering from insomnia over an extended period of time is believed to take as much as five years off your life.