Comment by simonswords82
1 year ago
This will potentially change as you get older. I’m in my very early 40s and what you say for my 30s was also true but not any more. Most of my friends at the same age as me report the same.
Best to dodge alcohol altogether where you can.
Yeah obviously, for best health and sleep try to avoid all stimulants altogether, including caffeine, alcohol, shrooms, weed, tobacco, hard drugs etc, but what I'm saying is it appears that correctly micro-dosing some of those can sometimes, depending on the individual, be as efective or even better as the sleep medication, which for me has always caused drowsiness and brain fog during the day as side effects.
The trouble is self medication can always go horribly wrong which is why no sane health professionals ever recommend it but that doesn't stop people from experimenting.
As per alcohol tolerance, that varies so much from person to person on genetics. For example, my uncle is a hardcore alcoholic and drinks almost a liter of wine per day and he's already in his 60's, yet his blood tests for kidney and liver function still show up within normal limits. Insane.
Maybe a nightcap isn't a good idea, but a glass of wine with dinner isn't even going to be detectable in your body by the time you go to sleep.
> a glass of wine with dinner isn't even going to be detectable in your body by the time you go to sleep
Unless you have dinner really early and go to sleep really late, I don't think that's true. The half life of alcohol is 4-5 hours and it peaks in the blood around 60-90 minutes after ingestion. [1]
[1]: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-long-does-alcohol-sta...