Your bedtime drink could be sabotaging your sleep.
To help people get their much needed shut-eye, bed makers, Get Laid Beds have partnered with sleep expert, Charli Davies, to reveal why you shouldn't drink alcohol before bed.
If you want to get a good night's sleep however, there are 10 drinks you want to stay clear of. And if you do, you may notice you're getting better sleep and waking up feeling refreshed. “In order to get quality sleep, we need to go through all stages of a sleep cycle a number of times. Through light sleep, deep sleep and REM sleep. Our bodies and brains need all stages of sleep to repair, recoup and work at its best. Alcohol takes us directly to deep sleep and missing stages of sleep means the quality of our sleep is drastically reduced."
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