Stay up late. These two words are not new to everyone. There are those who stay up to watch football (like me); those who stay up to play games (like me); those who stay up to prepare for exams (like me); those who stay up to read novels (like me); those who stay up to rescue patients (like me); those who stay up to go clubbing (not me here); those who stay up to catch up on dramas (the “Langya” crew said: blame me?); and so on. The first thing you need to do is to stay up late. The son said: stay up all night for a while, the body is very hurt. The physical damage caused by staying up late is varied, including but not limited to: obesity (seriously, overworked fat is considered a work injury! (Include medical insurance coverage!) The body damage caused by staying up late includes, but is not limited to: obesity (seriously, overwork fat is considered a work-related injury! , heart disease and so on. Today, we will take skin damage as an example and talk about how staying up late hurts our (especially “their”) skin. (Not interested in reasoning can jump directly to the third part) A, stay up late to harm the skin of modern medical mechanism First, there are many ways to harm the skin, including Qi and blood disorders, makeup, cleaning enough, maintenance disorders, endocrine disorders, no money to worry about …… and so on, stay up late is only one of them. Mr. Ye Liangchen, a famous Chinese pop culture leader, once said, “There are a hundred ways to hurt your skin, and you, there is nothing you can do about it!” Secondly, there are many mechanisms that harm the skin by staying up late. For example, it leads to endocrine imbalance, damage to self-repair mechanisms, etc. I will only choose one of the most core to speak (I will never admit that it is because of laziness). The name of the most core one is called: oxidative stress. Before talking about oxidative stress, we should talk about free radicals. To put it simply: free radicals are products of the body’s energy metabolism, including oxygen and nitrogen radicals. Free radical reactions are the basis of energy metabolism, and in the physiological state, free radicals are continuously produced and removed in the body to maintain the physiological balance. Free radicals originate from the process of digestion and absorption of food in the body, as well as from the process of cellular metabolism. A moderate amount, or free radicals that deal with physiological balance, is beneficial to the health of the body. But when the body is in a state of late nights, excessive exercise, aging, high-fat foods, smoking, alcohol consumption, high temperatures, radiation, and pollution, excess free radicals are produced. Excess free radicals can damage proteins, DNA, biological membranes (various cells in the skin have been crying in the toilet), lead to apoptosis, cause abnormal function of various organs (for example, the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease is related to free radical levels), damage the immune system, participate in the pathogenesis of tumors, induce tumor formation, and so on. In short, excess free radicals are bad as hell! The reaction in which free radicals take electrons from other atoms or molecules is called oxidation (O son, save the liberal arts students!) The chain reaction of oxidation is called oxidative stress. To expand, that is, when the body is subjected to various harmful stimuli, the body produces too many highly reactive molecules such as reactive oxygen radicals and reactive nitrogen radicals, the degree of oxidation exceeds that of oxidation clearly, and the oxidative and antioxidant systems are imbalanced, which leads to tissue damage. Moderate oxidative stress can mobilize the body to produce protective effects, and severe oxidative stress can produce damage. Oxidative stress damage is the basis for aging and the development of many diseases, and more than 90% of diseases are related to oxidative stress, such as tumors, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, etc. In short, excessive oxidative stress is bad as hell! In short, the human body specifically has a self-repair mechanism that can cope well with a small amount of free radicals and mild oxidative stress that brings damage. But long-term late night, poor sleep, will lead to the body to generate a large number of free radicals, so that the body is exposed to long-term oxidative stress, will cause damage to a number of human systems. For example, skin aging (wrinkles, acne, dark circles under the eyes, etc.)! What’s more, the process of staying up late is often at hand: cigarettes, beer and beverages, peanuts and melon seeds, noodles (almost half of the reasons for the generation of free radicals). In a word, the skin damage caused by staying up late is related to excessive free radicals and long-term oxidative stress. Second, stay up late to damage the skin of Chinese medicine mechanism As a Chinese medicine practitioner, the next to analyze the principle of stay up late on skin damage from the perspective of Chinese medicine. One of the most obvious and intuitive effects of staying up late is a strong heart fire, stick out your tongue and take a look, is the tip of your tongue very red? Four or four? Four or four? The heart fire is strong and consumes the heart yin (the fire is too big and the pot of water is boiling dry). The lack of heart yin, in turn, will lead to more heart fire (dry fire!). . What are the problems that occur when the heart fire is high? Acne, acne, mouth ulcers, etc. The snacks in the late night, the full meal after the late night, usually are not missing. In fact, people who stay up late for a long time, because the spleen and stomach do not get a good rest at night, often have a decline in function. The spleen and stomach function is insufficient to deal with these high-calorie food, often very hard. These things that are eaten and not digested will turn into dampness, and dampness will further aggravate the burden on the spleen and stomach, a vicious cycle that gradually leads to the appearance of spleen deficiency phlegm and dampness. When you stick out your tongue to take a look, the tongue moss is very thick, either yellow or white, and cannot be brushed off. Staying up late also depletes liver yin and kidney yin (kidney! Gay men, kidney ah!) . In the article “spleen and stomach health from the negative” has been said (follow the public number and reply 1, you can view), the kidney water up, nourishing the heart fire, in order to make the heart fire is not excessive hyperactive. Insufficient kidney water, heart fire, another vicious circle, this vicious circle in Chinese medicine has a professional name: heart and kidney do not intersect. There is another reason why the heart and kidney do not intersect, that is, the pathway of the heart and kidney do not intersect (the spleen and stomach of the middle jiao) is blocked by phlegm and dampness, the interaction is unfavorable (as if there is a sense of secondary school class teacher stick to beat the lovebirds). All of the above will cause the body’s qi and blood to run poorly, that is to say, the qi and blood is not in harmony (the relationship between qi and blood and disease can be viewed by replying to “the way to supplement deficiency”). One: the skin, the most superficial layer of the human body, which protects you from the wind and rain every day, cannot be well nourished and moisturized, just like going to work every day and being owed wages, it will soon go on strike, resulting in dull, dry and peeling skin; the metabolic waste of the skin and other tissues, the waste generated by the body such as humidity and turbidity, as well as the waste absorbed from the external environment, cannot be taken away and form blemishes. The skin can’t be taken away, so it forms blemishes, acne, dark sores, and other sores. In a word: Staying up late and bad habits will lead to disharmony of qi and blood, resulting in unsightly skin. Is there any way to prevent this damage? What can I do to minimize this damage? How to deal with this damage when it has already occurred? Next share my personal corresponding method. Third, stay up late to maintain health method Stay up late to maintain health method step one: control diet! The day after the night shift, I usually eat very little (basically one or two servings of fruit mainly.) . International research, and research by the Fasting Therapy Research Center at the First Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, has clearly shown that a short fast or low-calorie diet can accelerate the clearing of free radicals and help cope with the damage of oxidative stress. The leading international journal science also published an article in 2012 showing that calorie restriction, which stimulates the production of beta-hydroxybutyrate (ketone bodies), helps save cells from oxidative stress and reduces oxidative stress damage. At the same time, beta-hydroxybutyrate acts as a novel signal that helps slow down the cellular aging and adverse effects produced by the body, and also protects against cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and certain types of cancer. (Isn’t that awesome! Ever!) Ahem! From a TCM perspective, reducing food intake will allow the exhausted spleen and stomach to recuperate, giving the re-instated spleen and stomach the ability to drive the flow of qi and blood and promote the metabolic discharge of phlegm and dampness, which is important for restoring the normal function of the organism’s internal organs. Stay up late to maintain health method step two: the appropriate use of antioxidants. At present, it is believed that there are five good network antioxidants: vitamin E, vitamin C (so know why I am eating fruit-based instead of eating meat, right?) , coenzyme Q10, lipoic acid, and glutathione. In addition, natural herbs, such as astragalus, angelica, wolfberry, ginseng, eucommia, poria, etc., are believed to have antioxidant effects. Therefore, the appropriate boil some Chinese medicine as water to drink, but also can become beautiful and beautiful ah! (Warmly remind, each person’s physique is different, Chinese herbal medicine should be used under the guidance of an herbalist, for example, cough, cough, Dr. Qiu la!) The third step in the method of staying up late to maintain health: appropriate walking and moving. Don’t stay up all night, after the night shift to sleep a dizzy. That’s not health, it’s pigging out! Properly supplemented sleep is good for the body to recover. However, excessive sleep can make you feel sleepy and is not conducive to gastrointestinal motility and metabolic waste discharge. Dr. Qiu suggests: after a nap, you can go out to see the scenery, beautiful people, two million diamond rings (just look, robbery is not right!) . All in all, remind you: do not feel that staying up late hurts your body, so you have to make up for it, eat and drink. In this way, not only can not make up for it, but also easy to appear a variety of problems. Remember to become beautiful ah!