I used to drink in the winter, because my snowboarding buddies all drink and you are stuck in the hotel / AirBnB anyway. I have the same issues with sleep - in particular, I fall asleep more easily when I drink, but I wake up randomly during the night and can’t sleep anymore. I always assumed it’s because the alcohol (a depressant) is filtered out more quickly than the sugar (a stimulant).

It’s been a few years that I stopped hanging with the drinking boarders and hence stopped drinking entirely, and the effects on health are pretty massive. From personal experience, some time in the near future we’ll start thinking of free-flowing alcohol like we do about cigarettes now.

Not being an alcoholic probably helped grease the wheels.