🍺 If you have 1 drink, you may be able to fall asleep faster, but it can reduce some of your sleep quality. Just because you fall asleep better, doesn’t mean the quality improves. At 2 drinks, your REM sleep decreases and the alcohol begins to interfere with muscle repair which can delay your recovery. So be careful with this if you just had a hard workout. Now at 3 drinks, your sleep quality significantly decreases, leading to next day fatigue, cortisol increases, and protein synthesis is significantly impaired. So oftentimes at this stage, drinking won’t just cost you the 1 day, but it can cost you 2 days. Now does this mean you can never drink alcohol? No. All it means is if you do decide to drink alcohol, just know how it can impact your body. But above everything else, I believe the biggest factor that throws people off when drinking isn’t the direct calories from alcohol, it’s the indirect calories you EAT when you drink alcohol. Think the chips, bread, pasta, burgers, pizza, etc… So if you do decide to drink, limit alcohol as much as possible and try to stop drinking 3 hours before bed to minimize these effects!
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