We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
with respect to alcohol it's clear that none is best if you're going to have some uh you don't want to drink too early in the day but you don't want to drink too much or too close to bedtime because it can disrupt rapid eye movement sleep
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aside from demolishing REM sleep um you know do we know that alcohol causes these disruptions in sleep directly meaning by changing the um pattern of release of neurotransmitters like Gaba things of that sort or is this an indirect effect you know is this like through the gut microbiome that then impacts sleep
it seems actually not to be the alcohol but some of the metabolic byproducts of alcohol we think that perhaps the main culprit may be some of the aldah highs that are the metabolic um separate consequences of alcohol metabolism
one of the problems with alcohol is that it's very good at blocking your REM sleep so you'd been absent of REM sleep the PRI night you built up what we call a REM sleep debt and when you slept all of a sudden what your brain wanted more because it at least got some sleep and there you're going to get mostly your deep sleep the death on the sheets of your balance account for sleep was not so great for deep nonrem but you were very much in debt with REM so what happened as soon as you conked out on the couch whoosh you were probably straight into REM sleep and then when you woke up you had this mismatch in timing between Consciousness and the release of paralysis
disrupts REM sleep
alcohol is changing for the worst the gut microbiome and sleep patterns we know this people that track their sleep they have one drink and they're like holy cow my sleep is so much worse not just sleep score but amount of REM sleep amount of Deep Sleep Etc