Jess Cording

There's a big difference between having like a hard boiled egg to settle your stomach, you know, give yourself some like tryptophan, some protein, some fat to help you settle down versus like a bag of chips at two in the morning, which isn't really going to offer much in the way of nutrition.

But it's also a clue.

Like if you're regularly waking up hungry at two in the morning, that's a nudge to look at what you're having for dinner.

Like, are you eating enough at dinner?

Are you eating foods that are serving your body well and helping you get restful sleep?

Because, you know, these habits change.

It they impact us in the long term.

Right.

But also in the shorter term, like, yes, what we're doing in order to support, you know, healthy sleep, healthy, healthy heart.

That's going to impact, for example, like dementia risk later on, long term heart health.

But it's also impacting how we feel now.

So I would also ask the person, well, like, how's that working out for you?

Like, how do you feel during the day, too?

That's a wonderful question.

I do think that's somewhat variable.

Big picture, alcohol is so disruptive to sleep.

And as we get older, we tend to be less and less efficient at processing alcohol.

I know in my own life, after 35, my body was just like, what are you doing?

No, this does not work for us.

I could not sleep if I had even half of a glass of wine.