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#111 How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep: The Very Best Tips on Sleep

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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Alcohol and Sleep

Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call the sedatives. And sedateion is not sleep. Unfortunately. Its eation is not sleep. Is very different. Many people use our alcohol as a sleep aid, and it is anything but an assistant to sleep. You're just knocking your cortex out. The next day you feel again unrefreshed. But alcohol is bad at fragmenting your sleep, produces poor quality. Alcohol is good at blocking your dream sleep yor rem sleep. Rem sleep provides an overnight therapy. It's a form of emotional convalescence. We hd that anxiety, or that cloud that hangs around, as i said, for one or two

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