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I have a hard time believing alcohol has any positive health effects other than socializing. What it does to your sleep alone is highly problematic, and even on

• jhasse 5y ago
  Not so sure about that causation. There's nothing helping me more to sleep than being healthy.
  • treeman79 5y ago
    It’s a cycle. Lose one. You’ll lose the other.
  • sph 5y ago
    I don't know. I've been feeling ill and sleeping lots, and when healthy sleeping 6h and waking up refreshed. On the other hand, if you don't sleep as much as your body requires, it's a road to hell.
• hansvm 5y ago
  At an extreme, refraining from arsenic and salmonella is better for your health than sleep. I have a hard time believing there's nothing reasonable in between that's also better than sleep.
• Arnt 5y ago
  I had sleep problems a while ago, and have another perspective. I don't want to say that alcohol works against sleep problems, because in my experience it generally doesn't. Just like I don't want to say that food does — eating when not hungry is bad. But still, when I couldn't sleep you might find me in the kitchen with a bottle of bock beer, or I might have a glass of milk and a banana. Both of those gave a decent chance of sleep, if I didn't repeat them too often. Better, somehow more realistic sleep than my pills. Alcohol may result in below-average sleep, but depending on where you are, reaching a below-average status may be good or bad, see?
  • mountainriver 5y ago
    fair enough! there are times when it probably is the best option
• holbrad 5y ago
  I have a hard time believing that alcohol would only have 'negative' effects on health. It seems unlikely.