Alcohol and Insomnia

There are many studies showing the negative effect of alcohol on sleep.  When I hear about people having trouble sleeping I wonder if it is their alcohol intake.

I have found from personal experience that the insomnia will last long after the quit but in time will subside.   The best cure I have found for insomnia is limiting caffeine, absolutely no alcohol and sleep restriction therapy.

Sleep is such a healing and important process messing it up is another reason to quit the alcohol.

Sagawa agreed. "Many alcoholics and habitual drinkers suffer from insomnia," he said. "Suppressed parasympathetic nerve activity is the result of alcohol drinking. Thus, it is inferred that suppressed parasympathetic nerve activity is associated with insomnia, which includes difficulty getting to sleep, early-morning awakening, lack of a sense of deep sleep, and difficulty maintaining sleep."

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No amount of alcohol safe

Professor David Nutt wrote a good article for the Guardian arguing against the myth that there is a safe level of alcohol consumption.

Hopefully these observations will help bring some honesty to the debate about alcohol, which kills up to 40,000 people a year in the UK and over 2.25 million worldwide in the latest 2011 WHO report.
We must not allow apologists for this toxic industry to pull the wool over our eyes with their myth of a safe alcohol dose, however appealing it might be to all us so-called "safe" drinkers.

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