How Alcohol Affects Sleep
- allygallop
- Mar 4, 2024
- 9 min read
Updated: Mar 23
Alcohol and sports are often two peas in a pod. Beer is served throughout crowds, exists in many locker rooms of professional sports teams, is used to celebrate wins (and sulk in losses), can be ingrained in a sport and/or nation’s culture, and for some athletes, is used for relaxation after games.
Researchers have even studied beer as a potential post-training recovery fluid. You can read that here.
On the flip side, sleep is an easy tactic to promote an athlete’s recovery.
In this article, I’m going to review the following:
A brief intro of what alcohol is.
The sleep stages and cycle.
Alcohol’s impact on sleep.
Why an athlete should care.
A fun fact about alcohol metabolism (hint: the face flushing).
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