Jess Cording

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.

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

Like, just not a thing for me anymore.

But what happens with alcohol is we may get that initial sedative effect, and then we may drop into...

a deep sleep, kind of like just drop her.

And then we wake up a few hours later, like having missed out on that great quality REM sleep.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

Honestly, I needed it.