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Alcohol: what it changed, and what it did not

One intervention, every measured benefit and result that did not improve in Issue 01. See who it moved for, where it stayed neutral or went the other way, and the next hypothesis Phoenix can validate.

Research issue
Issue 01
Data through
2026-08-09
Evidence map version
v1.1.0
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Alcohol evidence dossier

Evidence collected through 2026-08-09.

What may work against

Subjective sleep quality

Phoenix daily check-in sleep-quality score · Aim: higher

Alcohol

↘Opposite direction

The Pattern Spotter's drinking nights averaged 1.72 sleep-quality points lower across 25 drinking and 35 comparison nights.

Selected member cases

  1. Pattern Spotter · APOE4/4 · female · age 60-69

    Sleep quality averaged 1.72 points lower across 25 drinking nights versus 35 comparison nights.

    What else changed: no nearby starts were recorded.

    Next study: repeat Subjective sleep quality after a dated Alcohol window.

1 selected member case · not a response rate

Logged members
1
Members with repeats
1
Observations
60
Nights
60
Measurements
60
Sources and context

The Pattern Spotter's drinking nights compared with her own non-drinking nights.

  • report-lines-433-457, reviewed by independent verifier

1 selected case shown with this evidence.

Audit history

These historical records remain beside the current evidence so you can see why their status changed.

Deep sleep

Alcohol

!Record withdrawn

An apparent alcohol-improves-deep-sleep result dissolved under device-coverage checks and is retained only as a retraction.

0 selected member cases · not a response rate

Sources and context

Historical alcohol-tagged wearable nights before corrected device-coverage checks.

  • report-lines-559-604, reviewed by independent verifier

This result was withdrawn: The positive deep-sleep result was a wearable-coverage artifact and remains excluded from active evidence.

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