Inside the NHL’s Surprising Shift: Why Top Players Are Ditching Beer for Better Sleep—and What It Means for the Game
“If you take a glass of wine or beer 30 minutes or an hour before sleep, it’s probably going to get metabolized around midnight or 1 a.m., “ Juginovic said. “That’s when the problems can actually start.”
It’s common to think that alcohol, which is a sedative, can help people fall asleep quickly. The issue comes later during the window in which metabolism would occur. It would be within the typical 100-minute sleep cycle: Stage 1 (light sleep), Stage 2 (slightly deeper), Stage 3 (deep sleep) and rapid eye movement. Were it to take place within Stage 3, it would disrupt the cycle’s most restorative segment.
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