With seasonal festivities well and truly under way, some are already fantasising about a dry January full of early nights.
But Dr Alex George, public health advocate and former Love Island contestant, revealed last week in a video on his YouTube channel that a sober night’s sleep isn’t necessarily all it is cut out to be – at least not in the early days of sobriety.
Two years after George gave up alcohol, he revealed that his sleep “got worse for about eight weeks before it got better”.
For the first two months, he said, he struggled to get to sleep, felt tired when he woke up and had “crazy dreams.”
His comments are an insight into the often mysterious and misunderstood effects of alcohol on sleep. While some people associate a nightcap with a good night’s rest, it is important to remember that…