Peter Attia· MD
people have noticed how much of an impact alcohol has on overnight
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people have noticed how much of an impact alcohol has on overnight
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so I think we're just we're probably getting much better gauge of sleep and how our body responding during sleep but we're not really getting this true picture how did our body go through the whole process of Life sleep recover next we don't see that picture as well because we're not measuring at the end of sleep we're getting this average across it so I don't think it's telling us really the same thing and it doesn't have the same utility we telling us from workout perspective what's the most appropriate thing for us to do
if you do a workout in the evening if you have a few glasses of wine if you're doing something very mentally challenging the first part of your sleep you're just responding to that and so your HRV is not reflective of this whole process it's just reflective of hey you just did a evening workout
we're measuring more of what's it doing during the recover the recovery period which you know has some correlation obviously but we're not really seeing where are you at the end of that recovery period where are you ready to go today for this you know Next Period of stress
overnight that dial of that parastic system was already higher so we're getting less of a respons to see what actually is changing at rest we not measuring at rest