James Laughlin argues drinking alcohol at breakfast beats drinking before bed because your body has 16 hours to metabolize it instead of working through the night. Alcohol metabolism overnight disrupts sleep, leaving you tired and irritable the next morning.
16 hours
You're actually better off drinking alcohol for breakfast than you are anywhere close to bedtime. Because at least if you have alcohol for breakfast, your body will then have 16 hours to go to work, breaking down the toxins of the alcohol to get you into a position where you can then fall asleep at nighttime and have a good night's sleep. The challenge is when you drink alcohol anywhere close to bedtime, you're essentially clocking your body in for a night's work. You're essentially putting your body to work at a time when your body does not want to go to work. Your body wants to rest. But as soon as you drink that alcohol that you think is relieving you of stress or anxiety or helping you to fall asleep, as soon as you drink that, you're putting your body into eight hours of work at a time when your body wants to rest. And that's why most people wake up tired, irritable, and sluggish.
