Transform your night’s rest with this easy, science-backed sleep hack.
What Is the 3-2-1 Sleep Method?
Eventually, your body balances things out by spending the rest of the night in lighter sleep stages.
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Alcohol suppresses the bodys natural production of melatonin, which creates an ongoing disruption incircadian rhythms.
This keeps your brain alert, delays melatonin production and makes it harder to enter deep, restorative sleep.
High cortisol activates the bodys stress response, which interferes with the slow brainwave activity needed for deep sleep.
Instead, use this time to ease into apost-work decompression ritual.
