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A glass of wine before bed helps you sleep. Why?
Red wine has health care function, which can adjust the pace of life, relieve mental stress, promote sleep and improve sleep quality. A glass of red wine before bed can make you fall asleep quickly. Let's take a closer look.

1. The reason why red wine can treat insomnia is mainly because of its ingredients. Red wine is generally the abbreviation of red wine, and the main ingredient is of course grapes. At this time, you should realize its relationship with sleep. Some Italian scientists have announced that eating grapes can help you sleep. This is because grape juice may contain melatonin, a hormone that helps sleep. Melatonin is a substance secreted by the pineal gland in the brain, which can regulate sleep cycle and treat insomnia. At night, an increase in melatonin levels is a signal to fall asleep, while at dawn, a decrease in melatonin levels is a signal to wake up.

2. In addition to melatonin, the nutrients in grapes can also tonify qi and blood, strengthen bones and muscles, dredge meridians, relieve stranguria and reduce swelling, and have the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening waist, invigorating qi and blood, lowering blood pressure and stimulating appetite, and have obvious curative effects on preventing and treating neurasthenia, stomachache, abdominal distension and cardiovascular diseases. These characteristics can make grapes an indirect food to relieve insomnia. Red wine is mainly made of grapes. Drinking red wine before going to bed can effectively nourish nerves and promote sleep. Among them, vitamin B can effectively improve the state of insomnia and dreaminess, and red wine can stimulate the secretion of digestive juice in the body, promote intestinal peristalsis and improve constipation.

3. Drinking alcohol before going to bed will aggravate the symptoms of existing breathing problems (such as snoring). After drinking, the respiratory muscles of snoring patients will become more relaxed, which will lead to the aggravation of snoring symptoms and seriously affect the quality of sleep. Secondly, for ordinary people, the biggest influence of alcohol is that it can reduce the occurrence of rapid eye movement sleep (REM). Rapid eye movement (REM), also known as desynchronized sleep, is characterized by rapid eye movement, active brain and dreaminess. Rapid eye movement sleep plays an important role in consolidating memory and even improving brain creativity.

Not only that, if you drink a lot before going to bed, it will also lead to fragmentation of sleep and affect your mental state the next day. Fragmented sleep will make you unable to concentrate and sleepy the next day. This problem will be more serious in women, because women are more capable of absorbing alcohol and lack enzymes that can decompose alcohol more than men. Therefore, even if a man and a woman consume the same amount of alcohol, women will be more seriously affected.