Cure tired puffy eyes in minutes
We have all at sometimes had to feel the shock of looking in the mirror first thing in a morning and seeing the puffy eyes and tired look after an erratic nights sleep or the all dreaded head wrecker of waking up ….. going back to sleep and then waking up again, and then frantically running round trying to gulp down a coffee or quickly do some exercise to try to wake ourselves up before having to either sit on a train looking like we just woke up on the train or hear a comment or two from work friends saying that you look like you could do with a good nights sleep.
With society the way it is in many parts of the world, sleep is a challenging area to say the least and especially with social media on permanent demand, people can find themselves being drawn into the virtual world while the hours pass by as if by magic until a person may find themselves with the sobering thought that they have either been “tip tapping” on the computer to friends for the last 3 hours or sat watching re-runs of the next drama show and they have to get up for work or get up for to send the kids to school in only a few short hours as their mind wonders where their next hit of caffeine or pro-plus will be coming from just to get them through the day ahead.
Well this isn’t an article about time management but it does have a tip for people in the above category and want to reduce tired eyes. There are many other options but this is one which I have been testing with a few people and has shown great results.
We first need to understand that the body is made up of 55% – 78% water (depending on the person and age) and secondly the skins elasticity (stretchiness) which reduces steadily as we age.
It is said (during studies) that many people of the world suffer with poor nutrition, and the majority of poor nutrition comes from a lack of water and from food sources that burn up water too quickly (junk food, sugar etc..) ,leaving the body in a dehydrated state. If we then imagine the water being taken away from our skin (which is in lesser need) to support our muscles or the stomach (greater need) as it does in shock state for example, it is possible to understand how the skin around the eyes can become dehydrated. Using the analogy of a grape left in the fruit bowl for too long we start to notice the wrinkled texture of the skin, which is purely caused by the fluid in the grape evaporating and the skin shrinking to fit the new smaller shape…. And so is the same with the eyes.
We recently did a test with 5 people (including myself) of different age groups and gender all of which for 7 days had only 5 hours sleep a night, then in the morning, woke up and then went back to sleep for one hour and then woke back up and started the day, we all noticed the skin around the eyes looked puffy and tired.
As soon as we woke up the second time we drank between ¾ litres or 1 litre of pure water and within 20-30 minutes the eyes looked fresh on awake with a total transformation. However, on the days where we did not drink the water it took on average 4-5 hours for the eyes to return to normal however the feeling of tiredness (physical and emotional) lasted all day. This was done with tap water and with no flavourings.
There are a great many variables on this study and was done only in a short period of time but everybody who took part noticed exactly the same results.
Water! Are you getting enough?
