Table of contents:
- Benefits of drinking wine to help you sleep
- Can you drink wine as a "medicine" to sleep?
- The tyrosine content in wine can also make you have nightmares and wake up in the middle of the night
Drinking wine is known to have several health benefits, including reducing the risk of lung cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's disease. However, wine is predicted to make a person sleepy quickly. Therefore, this drink made from wine and contains alcohol is often consumed by some people who have sleep disorders, for example insomnia.
The reason is, a survey published in the journal Sleep found that 28 percent of people with insomnia drink alcohol to help them sleep. About 68 percent of people with insomnia say that alcohol is effective in helping them fall asleep. Is it true that the benefits of wine to help sleep faster and soundly? Is there a danger to health?
Benefits of drinking wine to help you sleep
A study in Milan, Italy shows that wine made from red grapes can help people fall asleep more easily. The reason is, red grape skin contains the hormone melatonin, which regulates brain signals to feel sleepy and commands you to fall asleep. Melatonin is also a powerful antioxidant that fights aging and is important for increasing one's libido.
Your body generally produces melatonin in the pineal gland in the brain. Unfortunately, in some people the level of the hormone melatonin in the body is not enough to make you feel sleepy or fall asleep. So not infrequently, in certain health conditions, many people find it difficult to fall asleep quickly and drink wine to help their sleep problems.
It should also be noted, that only wines made from red grapes contain high melatonin. Not with wines made from white grapes. Because wines from white grapes do not use grape skins, which are grape skins that contain a lot of melatonin.
Can you drink wine as a "medicine" to sleep?
Although drinking wine or alcohol can help you fall asleep quickly, wine can also make you sleep less soundly. Keep in mind, your body goes through two different stages of sleep at night. The first state is called slow wave sleep (SWS). Where in this state your brain waves are slow brain waves.
After this SWS phase, the next phase of rapid eye movement or REM (rapid eye movement). Drinking wine containing alcohol within an hour before you fall asleep, can disrupt the second half of your sleep cycle. Where this can cause you to skip your REM period and make it easy to wake up a few hours later.
The tyrosine content in wine can also make you have nightmares and wake up in the middle of the night
Fermented red wine generally contains a neurotransmitter called tyrosine. These neurotransmitters function as chemical messengers in the brain. Taking tyrosine can make you wake up at night and cause heart palpitations. Chianti grapes, for example, are very rich in tyrosine.
Not only wine, food and drinks such as tea, cheese, fermented meat and chocolate, before going to bed can disturb restful sleep. Tyrosine can also boost your brain and make you feel more active.
Eating tyrosine-rich foods can be balanced with foods that contain carbohydrates, which can calm the brain. Drinking wine and other types of alcoholic beverages not only interfere with the second part of your sleep time, it can also cause you to have nightmares. You cannot experience deep quality sleep until the contents and effects of the alcohol wear off your body.
