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Sports Nutritionist Reveals: 3 Things To Stop Doing With Your Evening Drink (And 3 That Actually Work)

★★★★★ Writer rated 4.8 from 987 reviews

7 min read · Updated this month

Matt Jones

Sports Nutrition Advisor · Formulated Cadence Sleep Hydration

Master of Science, SENr

Let me say this before anything else, because it changes how you read the rest.

This isn't about how much you drink. I'm not going to tell you to stop, I'm not going to suggest you have a problem, and I'm not writing a dry January piece in October.

A glass of wine in the evening is one of the more reasonable things a person can do. The issue is narrower than that, and more interesting: alcohol is genuinely good at getting you to sleep and genuinely bad at keeping you there.

Here are three things I'd change about it and three things I'd do instead. Four of the six cost you nothing.

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Sports Nutritionist Reveals: 3 Things To Stop Doing With Your Evening Drink (And 3 That Actually Work)

★★★★★ Writer rated 4.8 from 987 reviews

7 min read · Updated this month

Matt Jones

Sports Nutrition Advisor · Formulated Cadence Sleep Hydration

Master of Science, SENr

Let me say this before anything else, because it changes how you read the rest.

This isn't about how much you drink. I'm not going to tell you to stop, I'm not going to suggest you have a problem, and I'm not writing a dry January piece in October.

Here are three things I'd change about it and three things I'd do instead. Four of the six cost you nothing.

The three I'd stop

❌ Don't · 01

Don't treat it as a sleep aid. It's a sedative, and sedatives invert.

Alcohol shortens the time it takes to fall asleep. That part is real, it works, and it's why nobody questions it — you go under quickly, so it must be helping.

The bit you're not awake for is the problem. As your body clears the alcohol, the sedative effect reverses. Arousal rebounds, and the back half of the night goes light and broken.

The glass at nine is why you're staring at the ceiling at three.

Nobody rates their sleep on the part they were asleep for. Which is exactly why this one goes unnoticed for years.

❌ Don't · 02

Don't swap to a zero-percent version and expect a different night

The alcohol-free aisle has got genuinely good, and if you like the taste, have at it. But understand what you've bought.

A 0% wine gives you the glass, the pour, the taste and the moment — which matters more than most people realise. What it doesn't give you is anything that helps with the night itself.

You've substituted the drink. You haven't replaced what it was supposed to be doing.

❌ Don't · 03

Don't just remove it. The gap is what breaks people.

This is the one I'd put money on. Deciding not to have a glass is easy. Anyone can decide that at four in the afternoon.

What nobody has an answer for is the ten minutes it occupied. The pour, the sitting down, the specific moment where the day is officially over and nothing more is going to be asked of you.

Take that away and leave a hole, and by Thursday you'll be pouring one again — not because you wanted the alcohol, but because you wanted the moment back.

"Just go to bed earlier" has never once worked for anybody.

The three I'd start

✅ Do · 01

Keep the ritual. It's doing more work than the alcohol is.

Here's something I've watched for years. The thing people are attached to is almost never the ethanol. It's the signal.

Something in your hand. Something you made. A clear line between the working day and the rest of the evening. That's a genuinely useful psychological cue and you shouldn't give it up.

It's also why a magnesium capsule has never replaced it for anyone. Capsules aren't rituals. A drink you make and hold is.

✅ Do · 02

On the nights you do drink, finish three hours before bed

Because you're going to drink sometimes, and nothing on this page should pretend otherwise.

If you give your body a few hours to clear most of it before you lie down, you move the rebound out of your sleep and into your evening. Same drink, same amount, a meaningfully different second half of the night.

Costs nothing. Works tonight. It's the single most useful thing on this page for anyone who isn't planning to change a thing.

✅ Do · 03

Replace what the drink took — not just what was in the glass

This is the part almost everybody misses, and it's why most swaps don't change anything.

Alcohol is a diuretic. It suppresses the hormone that tells your kidneys to hold water, so you spend the night losing fluid — and the sodium, potassium and magnesium that leave with it.

So the nightcap costs you twice. Fragmented sleep in the second half, and a body going into eight hours of recovery already running short.

Which means a real replacement has two jobs, not one. It has to be a genuine ritual, and it has to put back what both the drink and the night removed.

Nothing in the drinks aisle does the second one. Nothing in the supplement aisle does the first. That combination is what almost nobody is selling.

The three I'd stop

❌ Don't · 01

Don't treat it as a sleep aid. It's a sedative, and sedatives invert.

Alcohol shortens the time it takes to fall asleep. That part is real, it works, and it's why nobody questions it — you go under quickly, so it must be helping.

The bit you're not awake for is the problem. As your body clears the alcohol, the sedative effect reverses. Arousal rebounds, and the back half of the night goes light and broken.

The glass at nine is why you're staring at the ceiling at three.

Nobody rates their sleep on the part they were asleep for. Which is exactly why this one goes unnoticed for years.

❌ Don't · 02

Don't swap to a zero-percent version and expect a different night

The alcohol-free aisle has got genuinely good, and if you like the taste, have at it. But understand what you've bought.

A 0% wine gives you the glass, the pour, the taste and the moment — which matters more than most people realise. What it doesn't give you is anything that helps with the night itself.

You've substituted the drink. You haven't replaced what it was supposed to be doing.

❌ Don't · 03

Don't just remove it. The gap is what breaks people.

This is the one I'd put money on. Deciding not to have a glass is easy. Anyone can decide that at four in the afternoon.

What nobody has an answer for is the ten minutes it occupied. The pour, the sitting down, the specific moment where the day is officially over and nothing more is going to be asked of you.

Take that away and leave a hole, and by Thursday you'll be pouring one again — not because you wanted the alcohol, but because you wanted the moment back.

"Just go to bed earlier" has never once worked for anybody.

The three I'd start

✅ Do · 01

Keep the ritual. It's doing more work than the alcohol is.

Here's something I've watched for years. The thing people are attached to is almost never the ethanol. It's the signal.

Something in your hand. Something you made. A clear line between the working day and the rest of the evening. That's a genuinely useful psychological cue and you shouldn't give it up.

It's also why a magnesium capsule has never replaced it for anyone. Capsules aren't rituals. A drink you make and hold is.

✅ Do · 02

On the nights you do drink, finish three hours before bed

Because you're going to drink sometimes, and nothing on this page should pretend otherwise.

Costs nothing. Works tonight. It's the single most useful thing on this page for anyone who isn't planning to change a thing.

✅ Do · 03

Replace what the drink took — not just what was in the glass

This is the part almost everybody misses, and it's why most swaps don't change anything.

Alcohol is a diuretic. It suppresses the hormone that tells your kidneys to hold water, so you spend the night losing fluid — and the sodium, potassium and magnesium that leave with it.

So the nightcap costs you twice. Fragmented sleep in the second half, and a body going into eight hours of recovery already running short.

Which means a real replacement has two jobs, not one. It has to be a genuine ritual, and it has to put back what both the drink and the night removed.

Nothing in the drinks aisle does the second one. Nothing in the supplement aisle does the first. That combination is what almost nobody is selling.

So what's actually happening?

People tend to look for a single culprit. A heavy weekend. A stressful month. Getting older.

It's almost never that. It's accumulation. Not one big night — three hundred ordinary ones, each costing you the same small amount, none of it ever repaid.

You didn't develop a sleep problem. You trained one.

The way I explain it to clients: a nightcap is paying for tonight's sleep on a credit card. You get the first two hours immediately, at a very good rate. The interest comes due somewhere around three in the morning, and you've been rolling the balance over for years.

Why every swap you've tried changed nothing

Think about what you've already attempted. Herbal tea. Kombucha. A 0% beer. Maybe a magnesium tablet, or melatonin on the worst weeks.

Every one of them gives you the ritual or the function. Not one gives you both.

❌

Chamomile tea — a lovely ritual, and pharmacologically close to hot water

❌

0% wine — the glass, the pour, the taste. Nothing for the night

❌

Melatonin — a timing signal. Does nothing about fluid, and brings its own morning

❌

A magnesium capsule — one ingredient, one job, and not a ritual in any sense

❌

Just going to bed — removes the drink and leaves the hole

⚠️ And the advice you get is worse

"Have a chamomile." "Try a dry month." "Swap to a smaller glass."

If any of that had worked you wouldn't be reading this at half eleven.

None of it is bad advice exactly. It just treats the drink as the whole problem, when the drink was only ever doing half of it.

And the dose creeps

The part I'd want you to know, because it's quiet and it's reliable.

❌

You build tolerance to the sedative effect. One glass stops doing what it did.

❌

You don't build tolerance to the fragmentation. That part stays exactly as bad.

❌

So the glass gets larger, or becomes two, to get the same help falling asleep.

❌

Which makes the second half of the night worse, not better.

❌

And the tireder you are tomorrow, the more you'll want it tomorrow night.

Nobody decides to end up there. It happens one entirely reasonable evening at a time.

So what's actually happening?

People tend to look for a single culprit. A heavy weekend. A stressful month. Getting older.

It's almost never that. It's accumulation. Not one big night — three hundred ordinary ones, each costing you the same small amount, none of it ever repaid.

You didn't develop a sleep problem. You trained one.

Why every swap you've tried changed nothing

Think about what you've already attempted. Herbal tea. Kombucha. A 0% beer. Maybe a magnesium tablet, or melatonin on the worst weeks.

Every one of them gives you the ritual or the function. Not one gives you both.

❌

Chamomile tea — a lovely ritual, and pharmacologically close to hot water

❌

0% wine — the glass, the pour, the taste. Nothing for the night

❌

Melatonin — a timing signal. Does nothing about fluid, and brings its own morning

❌

A magnesium capsule — one ingredient, one job, and not a ritual in any sense

❌

Just going to bed — removes the drink and leaves the hole

⚠️ And the advice you get is worse

"Have a chamomile." "Try a dry month." "Swap to a smaller glass."

If any of that had worked you wouldn't be reading this at half eleven.

None of it is bad advice exactly. It just treats the drink as the whole problem, when the drink was only ever doing half of it.

And the dose creeps

The part I'd want you to know, because it's quiet and it's reliable.

❌

You build tolerance to the sedative effect. One glass stops doing what it did.

❌

You don't build tolerance to the fragmentation. That part stays exactly as bad.

❌

So the glass gets larger, or becomes two, to get the same help falling asleep.

❌

Which makes the second half of the night worse, not better.

❌

And the tireder you are tomorrow, the more you'll want it tomorrow night.

Nobody decides to end up there. It happens one entirely reasonable evening at a time.

What a real replacement would have to do

Before I name anything — here's the standard. Four jobs, and the order matters.

1. Be a genuine ritual.
Something you make, hold and drink at the same time each night. A capsule fails this immediately, and so does anything that takes thirty seconds longer than pouring a glass.

2. Put back the fluid and minerals.
Both the alcohol and the night itself take them out. Nothing in either aisle addresses this.

3. Help the wind-down without sedating.
Swapping one sedative for a milder sedative solves nothing — you'd get the same rebound, just smaller.

4. Taste like something you'd actually choose.
Nobody sticks with a replacement that feels like a punishment. This is the one most supplements fail.

The Replacement Ritual

Put those four together and you get something that doesn't currently exist in either aisle — and that's precisely why you haven't come across it.

The drinks industry makes beverages. They're very good at the ritual and they have no reason to formulate for your sleep.

The supplement industry makes pills and powders. They're focused on function and they've never once thought about whether taking it feels like anything.

A wind-down that actually does something needed both. Neither side thought it was their job.

Why I ended up building it

I spend my working life formulating for recovery, and the evening drink is the most common thing I get asked about — usually quietly, usually by people who don't want a lecture and have never had one from me.

So I worked with Cadence to put the whole thing into one sachet: a drink you make, that tastes good, that replaces what the night takes and helps you wind down without sedating you.

That's my name on the formula, which is why I'd rather tell you what it doesn't do than oversell what it does.

What a real replacement would have to do

Before I name anything — here's the standard. Four jobs, and the order matters.

1. Be a genuine ritual.
Something you make, hold and drink at the same time each night. A capsule fails this immediately, and so does anything that takes thirty seconds longer than pouring a glass.

2. Put back the fluid and minerals.
Both the alcohol and the night itself take them out. Nothing in either aisle addresses this.

3. Help the wind-down without sedating.
Swapping one sedative for a milder sedative solves nothing — you'd get the same rebound, just smaller.

4. Taste like something you'd actually choose.
Nobody sticks with a replacement that feels like a punishment. This is the one most supplements fail.

The Replacement Ritual

Put those four together and you get something that doesn't currently exist in either aisle — and that's precisely why you haven't come across it.

The drinks industry makes beverages. They're very good at the ritual and they have no reason to formulate for your sleep.

The supplement industry makes pills and powders. They're focused on function and they've never once thought about whether taking it feels like anything.

A wind-down that actually does something needed both. Neither side thought it was their job.

Why I ended up building it

So I worked with Cadence to put the whole thing into one sachet: a drink you make, that tastes good, that replaces what the night takes and helps you wind down without sedating you.

That's my name on the formula, which is why I'd rather tell you what it doesn't do than oversell what it does.

Cadence Sleep Hydration

One sachet in a glass of water, an hour before bed.
Tart cherry. Cold, or warm like a tea. Eleven ingredients, every milligram on the pack.

30 sachets. No alcohol, no melatonin, no caffeine, no sugar.

Job 01 · The ritual

A drink you make, at the time you'd have poured one

Tart cherry, in a proper glass, cold or warm. It takes about forty seconds — roughly the same as opening a bottle.

That matters more than it sounds. The reason most people fail at this swap isn't willpower, it's that they removed a ritual and replaced it with a tablet. You're not giving up the moment. You're changing what's in it.

Job 02 · Replace what was taken

100mg sodium · 100mg potassium · 50mg marine magnesium

This is the part no alcohol-free alternative has. Dosed for overnight retention, not for training — so the fluid is held across the night rather than passing through.

If you've been going to bed slightly short every night for years, this is the thing that changes.

Jobs 03 & 04 · Wind down, don't sedate

1000mg glycine · 200mg theanine · 1000mg tryptophan · ashwagandha · valerian · B6 · zinc

Glycine lowers core body temperature — one of your body's own switches for deep sleep, not a sedative effect. Theanine works on the same night you take it. Tryptophan with B6 lets your body make its own melatonin on its own schedule.

No alcohol in it, so there's no rebound at three. No melatonin, so there's nothing to shake off at seven.

And plainly: the human glycine trials used 3g. This is 1g, alongside ten other things. I'd rather you heard that from me.

What people describe, in order

✅

Nights one to three — the ritual part is fine almost immediately. The sleep hasn't changed yet

✅

Week one — mornings move first, and quietly. Less of that low-grade heaviness

✅

Week two — the three o'clock wake. On nights with nothing to clear, there's nothing to clear

✅

Week three — the evening stops being a decision. That's the actual outcome

Try it tonight — 30% off your first month

$31.50 · free cap included · 60-night money-back guarantee

Cadence Sleep Hydration

One sachet in a glass of water, an hour before bed.
Tart cherry. Cold, or warm like a tea. Eleven ingredients, every milligram on the pack.

30 sachets. No alcohol, no melatonin, no caffeine, no sugar.

Job 01 · The ritual

A drink you make, at the time you'd have poured one

Tart cherry, in a proper glass, cold or warm. It takes about forty seconds — roughly the same as opening a bottle.

Job 02 · Replace what was taken

100mg sodium · 100mg potassium · 50mg marine magnesium

This is the part no alcohol-free alternative has. Dosed for overnight retention, not for training — so the fluid is held across the night rather than passing through.

If you've been going to bed slightly short every night for years, this is the thing that changes.

Jobs 03 & 04 · Wind down, don't sedate

1000mg glycine · 200mg theanine · 1000mg tryptophan · ashwagandha · valerian · B6 · zinc

No alcohol in it, so there's no rebound at three. No melatonin, so there's nothing to shake off at seven.

And plainly: the human glycine trials used 3g. This is 1g, alongside ten other things. I'd rather you heard that from me.

What people describe, in order

✅

Nights one to three — the ritual part is fine almost immediately. The sleep hasn't changed yet

✅

Week one — mornings move first, and quietly. Less of that low-grade heaviness

✅

Week two — the three o'clock wake. On nights with nothing to clear, there's nothing to clear

✅

Week three — the evening stops being a decision. That's the actual outcome

Try it tonight — 30% off your first month

$31.50 · free cap included · 60-night money-back guarantee

Two reviews worth reading

★★★★★

✓ Verified purchase

I'll be honest, I thought this would be another thing that sat in the cupboard. I've had a glass of red with dinner most nights for about fifteen years and I wasn't looking to change that, I just wanted to feel less rough in the mornings.

Three weeks in now. I make it at about half nine, which is roughly when I'd have poured one, and I drink it out of a proper glass rather than a mug because otherwise it feels like medicine. Tastes like a sharp cherry squash. My husband thinks the glass thing is ridiculous.

What's changed is the mornings, not the nights. I don't think I'm sleeping any longer, my watch says about the same. But I'm getting up at six without that heavy first hour, and that's the bit I wanted.

Mary Ann · Reviewed June 2026 · 87 people found this helpful

★★★★★

✓ Verified purchase

I'm 51 and the evening glass of wine had become completely automatic, kids go up, kitchen's tidy, pour one. Never more than that, but never fewer either.

I've been doing this instead since the start of September. The routine is identical, which I think is why it stuck: sachet, cold water, big glass, sit down. Takes about as long as opening a bottle. My daughter calls it my potion.

Sleep-wise, the main thing is that I stopped waking up thirsty, which I'd never connected to anything. The headaches I used to get on a Sunday have mostly gone.

The faff is real though. You have to remember to do it, and if you're out you obviously haven't got one with you. Twice I've got into bed and realised I hadn't bothered.

Julie · Reviewed October 2026 · 22 people found this helpful

Forty seconds a night

Tear it into 300–350ml of water

Cold in a glass, or warm in a mug like a tea. Tart cherry either way.

Make it at the time you'd have poured one

An hour before bed. Same slot, same gesture — that's the point of it.

Change one thing at a time

Don't start this and a new bedtime and a cold shower in the same week. You'll never know what moved.

Two reviews worth reading

★★★★★

✓ Verified purchase

Mary Ann · Reviewed June 2026 · 87 people found this helpful

★★★★★

✓ Verified purchase

I'm 51 and the evening glass of wine had become completely automatic, kids go up, kitchen's tidy, pour one. Never more than that, but never fewer either.

Sleep-wise, the main thing is that I stopped waking up thirsty, which I'd never connected to anything. The headaches I used to get on a Sunday have mostly gone.

The faff is real though. You have to remember to do it, and if you're out you obviously haven't got one with you. Twice I've got into bed and realised I hadn't bothered.

Julie · Reviewed October 2026 · 22 people found this helpful

Forty seconds a night

Tear it into 300–350ml of water

Cold in a glass, or warm in a mug like a tea. Tart cherry either way.

Make it at the time you'd have poured one

An hour before bed. Same slot, same gesture — that's the point of it.

Change one thing at a time

Don't start this and a new bedtime and a cold shower in the same week. You'll never know what moved.

Now the part everyone scrolls for

And this one's unusual, because for most people reading this, the swap is cheaper than carrying on.

Work out what the evening glass actually costs. A bottle every other night at around $15 is roughly $150 a month. Even at a conservative count you're somewhere near $100.

Nobody adds this up, because it arrives as $15 at a time.

The evening glass, at a bottle every other night

~~~$150/mo~~

Cadence Sleep Hydration, standard price

~~$45~~

Per night at standard price
Roughly a seventh of a glass of wine

$1.50

Why there's a discount at all

I'll be straight, because you'd be right to ask. I'm a nutritionist, not a salesman. I'm paid for the formula, not the margin. What I want is for people to run it long enough to actually know.

And most people won't put $40-50 on something replacing a thing they genuinely enjoy. So the first month comes down to $31.50, and after that it's 15% off for as long as you stay.

$31.50 · free cap · cancel any time

Now the part everyone scrolls for

And this one's unusual, because for most people reading this, the swap is cheaper than carrying on.

Work out what the evening glass actually costs. A bottle every other night at around $15 is roughly $150 a month. Even at a conservative count you're somewhere near $100.

Nobody adds this up, because it arrives as $15 at a time.

The evening glass, at a bottle every other night

~~~$150/mo~~

Cadence Sleep Hydration, standard price

~~$45~~

Per night at standard price
Roughly a seventh of a glass of wine

$1.50

Why there's a discount at all

I'll be straight, because you'd be right to ask. I'm a nutritionist, not a salesman. I'm paid for the formula, not the margin. What I want is for people to run it long enough to actually know.

And most people won't put $40-50 on something replacing a thing they genuinely enjoy. So the first month comes down to $31.50, and after that it's 15% off for as long as you stay.

$31.50 · free cap · cancel any time

✓ You don't have to decide tonight

Sixty nights. Empty box still counts.

Not sixty days from opening. Not conditional on the seal. Use all thirty sachets, and if your nights are exactly where they are now, email us and we'll refund it.

No return shipping. No form. Nobody asking you to justify it.

Sixty rather than thirty for a reason I pushed for: swapping an evening habit takes about a month before it stops feeling like a swap. A thirty-day window would end it right at that point.

What happens when you click

You'll land on the Cadence site. Pick the flexible plan — that's the one with 30% off the first month. Secure checkout, ships the same working day if you order before midday, and the cap comes in the same box.

Nothing to cancel by phone. Skip, pause or stop from your account in two clicks, no notice period, no fee.

⚠️ One honest thing about ordering a single box

A box is thirty sachets. Thirty nights. Which means a one-off order runs out at exactly the point the new ritual stops feeling like an effort.

Habits take roughly a month to settle. Run out at day thirty, spend a week deciding whether to reorder, and the evening slot goes back to being empty — which is the one thing that reliably puts the bottle back on the table.

That isn't a sales argument. It's the only part of this that's about behaviour rather than biochemistry, and it's the part people underestimate.

If you're going to test it, test it on the subscription and cancel at month two if it's done nothing. You'll have your answer, and the guarantee covers you either way.

60-night money-back guarantee · opened box accepted

✓ You don't have to decide tonight

Sixty nights. Empty box still counts.

Not sixty days from opening. Not conditional on the seal. Use all thirty sachets, and if your nights are exactly where they are now, email us and we'll refund it.

No return shipping. No form. Nobody asking you to justify it.

Sixty rather than thirty for a reason I pushed for: swapping an evening habit takes about a month before it stops feeling like a swap. A thirty-day window would end it right at that point.

What happens when you click

Nothing to cancel by phone. Skip, pause or stop from your account in two clicks, no notice period, no fee.

⚠️ One honest thing about ordering a single box

A box is thirty sachets. Thirty nights. Which means a one-off order runs out at exactly the point the new ritual stops feeling like an effort.

That isn't a sales argument. It's the only part of this that's about behaviour rather than biochemistry, and it's the part people underestimate.

If you're going to test it, test it on the subscription and cancel at month two if it's done nothing. You'll have your answer, and the guarantee covers you either way.

60-night money-back guarantee · opened box accepted

The honest version of the risk

You might read all this and keep the glass, and that's a perfectly reasonable place to land. I'd still take the two free ones: finish three hours before bed, and don't remove the ritual without putting something in its place.

But doing nothing isn't neutral either.

It's another year of the second half of the night being worse than the first. Another year of mornings that start at seventy percent. Another year of the glass getting slightly larger because the old size stopped working — and of assuming this is just what being your age feels like.

The downside here is $31.50 and four weeks of your evenings. And you're already spending four times that on the thing you'd be replacing.

Take the free ones regardless. They work whether you buy anything or not.

And if you want the thing that does both jobs — the ritual and the replacement — it's below.

🔒

60 nights

Opened box accepted

🧪

Informed Sport

Tested every batch

🚫

No alcohol

No melatonin, no sugar

↩️

Cancel anytime

No notice, no fee

4.7

★★★★★

Verified reviews, collected independently

5 star

88%

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

Same ritual. Different second half of the night.

$31.50 first month · free cap · 60-night guarantee

The honest version of the risk

But doing nothing isn't neutral either.

The downside here is $31.50 and four weeks of your evenings. And you're already spending four times that on the thing you'd be replacing.

Take the free ones regardless. They work whether you buy anything or not.

And if you want the thing that does both jobs — the ritual and the replacement — it's below.

🔒

60 nights

Opened box accepted

🧪

Informed Sport

Tested every batch

🚫

No alcohol

No melatonin, no sugar

↩️

Cancel anytime

No notice, no fee

4.7

★★★★★

Verified reviews, collected independently

5 star

88%

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

Same ritual. Different second half of the night.

$31.50 first month · free cap · 60-night guarantee

This is an advertisement produced by Cadence and promotes a Cadence product. Written for a general audience and not medical advice.

Cadence Sleep Hydration is a food supplement. It is not a treatment for alcohol dependence and is not intended to help anyone stop or reduce drinking. If cutting down is something you're finding genuinely difficult, that's worth a conversation with your GP rather than a change of drink.

Nothing here is a reason to stop, reduce or change anything prescribed to you. If night waking has persisted for months, and particularly if you snore heavily or have been told you stop breathing in your sleep, speak to your doctor — that can indicate sleep apnea and no supplement substitutes for ruling it out.

Not a substitute for a varied, balanced diet or a healthy lifestyle. Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Individual results vary.

This is an advertisement produced by Cadence and promotes a Cadence product. Written for a general audience and not medical advice.

Not a substitute for a varied, balanced diet or a healthy lifestyle. Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Individual results vary.