Originally Posted by
topflightpro
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Alcohol is great for putting you to sleep, but not keeping you asleep through the night.
No argument from me that the non competitive person can be healthier than the tuned elite one.
For a competitive traveling athlete changing times zone with minimal time to adapt and wanting max (legal) performance may come at some cost to sleep, brain and overall health.
I was listening to one of those blogs (Rogan I think) who had some guy on stating that it was healthier doing the TdF on banned PEDs (to a controlled level) than not due to the toll on the body.