If you are in the first few days: Insomnia is a symptom of alcohol withdrawal. So, you might not yet have noticed a big improvement in sleep quality.
It is well known that getting drunk significantly reduces sleep quality. You surely already know that sleep is important for maintaining good health. In this post, I'd like to introduce a sleep process that you probably didn't learn about in school: The Gylmphatic System
Chances are good that you weren't taught about the glymphatic system because it was only discovered in the past ten years. In short, the glymphatic system is your brian's sytems for removing toxins during sleep. While you sleep, your brain cells shrink in size while remainig in place. They squeeze toxins out of their in cells and into the cerebrospinal fluild in the spaces formed around them. If don't want to read through pages of articles about the system, check out this 6 second video of the system in action.
Hopefully, this adds some new appreciation to the added sleep quality that staying away from booze gives you. In addition to helping ward off dementia later in life, you'll wake up better rested than ever. If you've been boozing a lot before, within a week of sobriety and good rest you may start of have mornings where you wake up say "woah" from a deepest sleep/brain cleanse that you've had in a long time. Yesterday was the first day of my challenge to have that experience. :)
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[–] Gigglestick ago
... that’s a can of worms, airmen. Gay? Air Force? Why’d you divorce? Etc...
[–] Poohwhisperer ago
Married too young, grew up in the Midwest so that’s what you do..my son and I left the AF after 10 years I wasn’t exactly militarily minded, meaning I knew I liked girls and at that time open gays weren’t allowed. Had a good MOS learned a lot, took my skills went to work in nuclear power gen, retired early in 2012. All in all it worked out pretty well.