Drinking alcohol within 8 hours of bedtime disrupts sleep architecture and reduces slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep. — Whalespan
Drinking alcohol within 8 hours of bedtime disrupts sleep architecture and reduces slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“Two things that you can do to really disrupt your slow-wave sleep are to drink alcohol within eight hours prior to bedtime or even at all. Some people will find that even if they have a glass of wine or a beer with lunch, that the amount of slow-wave sleep and sometimes even the rapid eye movement sleep that they get at night is reduced and that their overall sleep architecture is disrupted. This has been shown again and again.”
“while true it is not necessarily the case that more deep sleep is better if you're already getting enough deep sleep and certainly at that dose you be exposing yourself to brain volume loss and dementia risks”