One alcoholic drink in the evening does not impact sleep, but two or more drinks profoundly increase resting heart rate and decrease heart rate variability.

“alcohol before bedtime is between 5 and 10 beats per minute.”

“BTW—if I exceed *one* glass my sleeping HR will be up by…”

“alcohol and shitty food close to bedtime will absolutely tank my resting heart rate meaning it will drive it way up and will drive my heart rate variability down and it's not subtle”

“one drink in the evening does not impact my sleep two or more absolutely does and does so in a profound way the two things that happen are my resting heart rate will be 10 beats higher it will take very long for me to reach my resting heart rate so what you want is your resting heart rate to be achieved within the first third of your sleep cycle and more importantly and perhaps more surprising to me is my heart rate variability gets squashed so I have a very low average heart rate variability when I have more than two drinks and even the volatility of my variability is very low and that is reflected in my sleep”

“my resting heart rate will be 10 beats higher it will take very long for me to reach my resting heart rate so what you want is your resting heart rate to be achieved within the first third of your sleep cycle”

“my heart rate variability gets squashed so i have a very low average heart rate variability when i have more than two drinks and even the volatility of my variability is very low”

“one thing i have observed and the aura ring has made it very easy for me to track this is one drink in the evening does not impact my sleep two or more absolutely does and does so in a profound way the two things that happen are my resting heart rate will be 10 beats higher it will take very long for me to reach my resting heart rate”

“the the more alcohol you drink the higher your pulse will be your resting pulse stress sleep problems there's a lot of things but it's generally a pretty good marker of fitness”