STOP DRINKING ALCOHOL NOW - One of The Most Eye Opening Motivational Videos Ever

talk to me about your relationship with alcohol and how it's changed I pretty much barely drink anymore I used to drink numerous times per week there was always at least one extremely heavy Blowout at the weekend what is going on here when you're having 15 or 20 drinks a week you're pretty much constantly in a state of being either drunk or hungover if you really like alcohol it does two things to you it makes you more extroverted and enthusiastic and more full of positive emotion and the second thing it does is reduce anxiety alcohol targets

mitochondria alcohol poisoning is due to mitochondrial disruption and impairment there were times I was like man I could never be a sober person it was just alcohol for me always if you took something fun alcohol made it more fun and if you took something boring it made it less boring so when somebody dies of alcohol poisoning the cause of death is poisoning the mitochondria the one thing that always knocks me off track the most is always alcohol most people are drastically underestimating its impact right now as we speak meets the criteria for either alcohol abuse

or alcohol dependence which we now call alcohol use disorder we were on to like two or three glasses a day then half a bottle and it it just went really fast the alcohol is it's hell of a it's a hell of a drug man when it comes to quitting drinking one of the challenges many people face is the influence of their Social Circle if someone's friend group consists of heavy drinkers it can make it incredibly difficult to maintain sobriety the peer pressure normalization of excessive alcohol consumption and fear of missing out on social activities can

create a constant Temptation and undermine an individual's efforts to quit breaking away from such friend groups or finding new supportive social networks becomes crucial in providing the necessary environment for sustained recovery and personal growth if you're trying to get your life together and your friends get in the way that's actually real useful for you because you've now identified who your friends aren't and you might think well I can't give them up it's like oh yes you can and not only can you you should and it would be better for them because if they're aim down

and they want you going down with them there's nothing good about what's happening to them and there's certainly nothing good about that for you similar to quitting smoking the body can heal but it takes time in this next clip Mark Manson author of The subtle art of not giving a addresses his relationship with alcohol despite being a heavy drinker for most of his life he made the decision to quit completely while attempting to moderate his alcohol intake Mark experienced prolonged negative effects feeling physically and emotionally drained effects that are common after blackout night but were

surprising to him after a simple glass of wine or two with dinner you know if you've been a heavy drinker for multiple years it can take 6 to 12 months for the out for your system to actually entirely reset for your brain to go back to the way it was your internal organs to go back to the way they were and I was like God damn I've been doing this basically since I was like 18 half my life almost two decades yeah it's incredible it's incredible it was I'd say within a few weeks waking up

with more energy sleeping like a baby you know and one of the things you know I had cut back quite a bit before I quit completely I'd say I'd cut back to drinking maybe two three times a month and when I drank it was like just two or three glasses of wine and it's funny like something I feel like something you notice when you cut back that you don't notice when you keep drinking heavily like when you drink heavily you just expect to feel like so when you feel like you're like oh yeah well of

course I drank I drank a lot but when you drink very moderately it actually showed me how much it affects you like I would go out and have two glasses of wine with dinner and Not only would I feel maybe 20 percent worse the next day I would feel 10 percent worse the day after that and that was shocking to me I was like whoa this is actually it's not about hangovers it's about just general lack of energy and motivation on a day-to-day basis and it lasts for multiple days there's no hiding the fact that

alcohol is a drug it's a legal drug accepted by society that breaks in billions of dollars a year it's also well known that alcohol is harmful especially in large quantities and over long periods of time why do millions of people continue consuming a poisonous substance for the most part people consume alcohol in order to get the net effect on the brain the overwhelming majority of people who consume alcohol that's to help unwind or you know celebrate the end of a day or it's hard to deal with the stress at the end of the day it's

usually a mechanism to take you out of a less ideal place and bring you into a more relaxed ideal place and alcohol really is a good drug for are coping with anxiety that's why people use it so it does too if you if you really like alcohol it does it does two things to you it makes you more extroverted and enthusiastic well you're on the ascending limb of the blood alcohol curve which is why you have to keep drinking once you start because if you plateau that goes away so you got to keep drinking okay

so that's one thing it makes you more enthusiastic and and more full of positive emotion and the second thing it does is reduce anxiety yeah and so if you are a bit more socially anxious and you also have that positive response to alcohol which everyone doesn't have by the way then it's a great drug but the problem is it's well it's a great drug for the moment right right there's there's consequences yeah this comes when it's not great well it also the alcohol is an interesting drug because it it actually doesn't make people stupid this

has been tested like alcohol people who are drunk will take far more risk and you might say well that's because they're too stupid to understand the risk it's like no they're not if you ask them about the risk when they're drunk they can outline it perfectly what it stops them from doing is caring about the risk during the healing process of sobriety withdrawals are inevitable for people that maintained a heavy Reliance on alcohol symptoms vary and the intensity can often make it harder for some people to stick with it as with smoking those Cravings are

powerful and can often push people back to substance abuse to escape from the discomfort of withdrawal increased stress when people are not drinking diminished mood and feelings of well-being when people are not drinking and changes in the neural circuitry that cause people to drink even more in order to get just back to Baseline before they ever started drinking in the first place you feel uncomfortable you feel distressed you anxious and distressed and you basically start noticing you have more cravings and urges to go back to drinking more alcohol to make these signs and symptoms get

Milder so basically you're self-medicating and kind of perpetuating the cycle because you don't want to feel this way and you don't want to feel this discomfort from alcohol withdrawal now in milder cases these mild signs and symptoms may go away in one to two days in more moderate cases it could be three to five days okay but bottom line is it's these withdrawal symptoms even though they're mild which may continue to perpetuate somebody's drinking because they say I don't want to feel this way and I notice that when I start drinking it kind of goes

away and it may just kind of continue the cycle of problematic drinking alcohol unlike other nutrients cannot be efficiently metabolized by the human body to extract energy instead the body treats alcohol as a toxin triggering a Cascade of processes to eliminate it from the moment alcohol enters the bloodstream it affects not only the liver but also the entire body system it disrupts the balance of neurotransmitters impairs cognitive function compromises the immune system and places strain on various organs leading to a wide range of negative Health consequences that extend far beyond the liver when you take

a step back when you look at the big picture of Life cells in the human body are all there to perform a function but they all need nutrients they need nutrients to create replace the parts that need to be replaced without nutrients you're dead in order to understand why cells in the human brain or body malfunction we have to go all the way to the basics of biology which is every living cell at the end of the day depends on metabolism or energy and it's the only way to connect the dots this is a gross

oversimplification of nutritional biochemistry essentially we can look at most of at least macro nutrition not micronutrition but macro nutrition in other words the things that we consume that give us energy and there are three primary sources of macronutrients there are protein fats and carbs and the challenge with ethanol or alcohol is that when alcohol comes into our nutritional equation there's nowhere for it to go the liver is responsible for detoxifying the alcohol that we ingest could it really be could it really just be that the last thing to go is the alcohol that it could

be that impactful I dare you to try [Music] [Music]