Not that people are in pain. That they've called it normal.

We think of recovery as something athletes do after games. But look at what an ordinary week actually does to a body.

• Hours forward-folded over a screenEvery day
• Neck holding a head at an angle it wasn't built forEvery day
• Shoulders rounded, wrists fixed, jaw setEvery day
• A nervous system that never fully downshiftsEvery night

That's a repetitive strain pattern. It's just spread across years instead of a season.

Your face is downstream of your nervous system.

That isn't poetic. It's a chain, and every link is measurable.

• Chronic tension

  Muscles held tight for hours restrict the vessels running through them.

• Restricted circulation

  Less oxygen and fewer nutrients reach tissue — and skin sits at the very end of that supply line.

• Low-grade stress

  A body that never downshifts runs elevated cortisol and a higher inflammatory load, all the time.

• Inflammation

  Degrades collagen faster than almost anything else you do to yourself. Faster than sun, for most people.

• Your face

  Tired, dull, heavier around the eyes and jaw — and no product fixes it, because the problem isn't on the surface.

The tired you see in the mirror often isn't your skin. It's everything above it that never got to rest.