Alcohol also causes dehydration, and dehydration can cause headaches and nausea. Alcohol also disturbs sleep. So even though it feels like you slept 12 hours, you probably didn't get REM sleep, so you won't feel rested the next day.

You could have it [sexual dysfunction] because of sleep deprivation, stress. Alcohol can cause it. Very often it has to do with a relationship that is psychological.

In addition, spacing out alcohol consumption will allow your body's enzymes a better chance to keep up and likely reduce toxic side effects. A simple strategy to accomplish both is to alternate alcoholic beverages with something like seltzer.

In addition, spacing out alcohol consumption will allow your body's enzymes a better chance to keep up, and likely reduce toxic side effects. A simple strategy to accomplish both is to alternate alcoholic beverages with something like seltzer.

We know strategies to reduce deaths from tobacco, alcohol, poor diet, unintentional injuries, and other predictable causes. And we know that millions of people will die unless we protect the population against these routine causes of death.

There is much we don?t yet understand about the causes and processes that underlie sleep disorders, which is why we need a boost in research.