From nightcaps to nightmares: the many ways alcohol disrupts your sleep

Elf and safety: ‘What we do know is alcohol is interfering with the neurotransmitter systems of the body.’ Photograph: Business Images/Rex/Shutterstock

With seasonal festivities well and truly under way, some are already fantasising about a dry January full of early nights.

But Dr Alex George, public health advocate and former Love Island contestant, revealed last week in a video on his YouTube channel that a sober night’s sleep isn’t necessarily all it is cut out to be – at least not in the early days of sobriety.