# How caffeine and alcohol affect your sleep

- Institution: TED
- Department: Sleeping with Science
- Speaker: Matt Walker
- Year: 2020
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_walker_how_caffeine_and_alcohol_affect_your_sleep)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Caffeine wakes you up, and alcohol makes you nod off, right? It's not that simple. Sleep scientist Matt Walker takes us into the eye-opening ways that these drinks affect the quantity and quality of our sleep.

## Lectures

1. [How caffeine and alcohol affect your sleep](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/matt_walker_how_caffeine_and_alcohol_affect_your_sleep/ecb2b246e0a0), 5 min (TED's player)