Alcohol might help you fall asleep, but it wrecks your sleep quality. As it metabolizes into acetaldehyde, it lowers your blood pH and kills deep sleep, the stage when your brain clears out toxins through the glymphatic system.
Everybody that says they have a glass.
Of wine before they go.
To bed is absolutely lying.
Feels good, though. It's not really the alcohol, it's what the alcohol becomes.
Alcohol becomes.
Something called acetyl aldehyde, which is a very acidic compound, highly acidic compound. So it actually slightly lowers the PH of the blood. And so as we get more acidic, lower in ph, this is what gives us headaches and interrupts our cellular metabolism, doesn't allow us to get into deep.
Sleep, for that matter.
Sleep is the human superpower, but people don't realize, you know, why is sleep our human superpower?
I understand that I'm resting calm, and my mind is relax.
But what's physiologically going on during sleep? And so what happens is in deep sleep, the brain is eliminating waste. This happens during deep sleep. It activates the glymphatic system, so your brain flushes toxins. Well, if you don't get into deep sleep, you never actually use that glymphatic drainage system. So people wake up foggy, drowsy, groggy. You never flush those toxins.
