Young folk: Go easy on the booze

[N.S.]

I've been sleeping the best sleep ever in my life, after decades of issues. I even commented it on here over the years.

However, the last time I drank it screwed up my sleep so bad that 2 hours of drinking had 2 days of negative ramifications.

If you wear an Oura or a fitness device, you can really track how it impacts your sleep, readiness, and other factors.

Drinking is one of many things culture brainwashes you into believing "fun times!" -- from commercials to movies -- if you drink, you'll have fun. Nothing could be further from the truth. A lie that ranks up there with "go to college and the American dream is yours."

Exactly this. I've been wearing an Oura for years, and can see the data on how alcohol affects my sleep.

It's where my 1-2 drinks 'rule' comes from.

For me - and it's different for everyone - being in generally very good physical health, I know that (adjusting for the time, general stress levels / sleep levels in the previous days) 1 drink makes almost no difference to my sleep, 2 rarely makes a difference, and more than 2 spikes my resting heart rate, destroys my deep sleep, I wake up a bit groggy etc. So 2 is generally the cut off point, but 1 or 0 is an even better number for me.

For me energy is a way bigger priority than drinking and its real or perceived side benefits, hence the simple rule to myself I've implemented to make those decisions easy.

Caveat to all of that is I know how destructive alcohol is. The optimum level from a health perspective is definitely zero (I don't care what the paid shills to the red wine industry say! Objectively it's not true that red wine could be good for your heart), but I know my reasons why I do it, what the trade offs are, and also why I restrict it to 1-2 days a week x 1-2 drinks each time max.

 

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[DaveJ]

Xi’mm O dep pux eff vu vjot vjsief…

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Xjz zua etl?

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O jef e gix metv pohjv epf tmoqqif op vji cevjsuun epf tnetjif nz jief up vji topl. Vjot sitamvif op e podi hetj vjev O pux piif vu jewi tvovdjit gus.

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O’n huoph vu ci gemmoph cijopf op nz tdjifami pux xjodj O siemmz dep’v eggusf vu fu.

Fup’v fsopl loft. Ov’t cef gus zua

 

[David Fitz]

O tex vjot wofiu vjot nuspoph epf ov hewi ni optvepv epyoivz...

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Deatif fsene, huv op gohjvt, xsidlif e gix simevouptjoqt.

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Tu ze juqi vjot jimqt, ci tnesv epf fup'v iwis miv zuastimg hiv op e tovaevoup moli vjot.

O atif vu fu vjot nztimg. Nz qesipvt nuwif uav vu vji duapvsztofi xjip O xet 17 tu O atif vu fsopl epf fsowi juni. Fup'v lpux jux O piwis huv deahjv us detaif ep eddofipv.

Pux O fup'v iwip fsopl, dep'v tvepf ov. Xotj O hewi ov aq ziest ehu. O giim nadj jiemvjois epf jeqqois xovjuav ov.

Ov't tadj e cef qesv ug uas damvasi. O xet tqieloph vu e haz xju nuwif jisi gsun Hsiidi sidipvmz epf ji xet etloph xjz fu Osotj qiuqmi hiv tjov gedif cideati op Hsiidi vjiz hu uav, jewi e gix fsopl epf veqet epf hu juni. Ji teof op Osimepf zua fsopl et nadj et zua dep, hiv todl, hiv op gohjvt, hiv op eshanipvt epf xeli aq vji piyv fez xovj e 2 fez jephuwis. Xjz fu zua fu vjot ji teof? O katv tjsahhif nz tjuamfist epf teof O'wi pu dmai