Alcohol

“And it's a mixture of alcohol annoying the immune cells, alcohol not being good on the nerve cells, alcohol getting chaos into the microbiome, so all of this comes together and gives you this weird, weird text message on your toilet in the next morning saying,…”

“So for a very long time, I always said that the ultimate day, like the perfect day was 12 hours of caffeine followed by four hours of alcohol.”

“Saudi Arabia is loosening alcohol rules, letting non-Muslim foreign residents earning over 13,000 dollars you can buy alcohol.”

“I do not think alcohol. I think it is a toxin period. And when we were examining people and we were saying, okay, so what is this person's risk factor for some kind of cognitive impairment? Alcohol was on the list.”

“The worst addiction nowadays, it's not alcohol or it's not smoking. It's not anything else. It is the phone addiction.”

“Cause with poker, alcohol can lower your inhibition a little bit. So you're gonna just go, trust your instinct. And when I, you know, whenever I've done that, I feel like it's almost like a superpower because It allows you to sort of get past the fear and the …”

“It fits with the lack of dating and the lack of having sex and the lack of socializing. It, that was the, that was a prime social lubricant for decades.”

“And I think the risks to a twenty-five-year-old liver of alcohol are dwarfed by social isolation.”

“One of the weirder things that's happening with GLP-ONEs, I'm sure you're tracking, is that it gives you unbelievable willpower, like people who bite their nails, They stop biting their nails. Or like, people who struggle with alcohol just because they go on a…”

“When you look at the data, it's more when people were like chronically having a lot of alcohol use that are really having these problems.”

“I don't think that today's young people are drinking nearly as much, but when I grew up, everybody was drinking, particularly in places where there was nothing else to do”

“If you have a few drinks now and again, it has Literally no statistical impact on longevity or quality of life or anything like that.”

“If you drink three to four and more drinks most nights, you're going to be paying a small health and longevity downside. And then the negatives exponentially accelerate. After that.”

“With the customer's permission, we can verify your face against your ID to dispense a product that's regulated. So think Sudafed, think cannabis, think alcohol. That you need an ID to verify. We have that ability.”

“With the customer's permission, we can verify your face against your ID to dispense a product that's regulated. So think Sudafed, think cannabis, think alcohol. That you need an ID to verify. We have that ability.”

“Alcohol has formaldehyde. Pomaldehyde has the potential to damage your DNA. So at a cellular level, it is damaging.”

“A lot of people don't talk about this, but with alcohol, but I'm pretty sure there's only two drugs you can die from if you try to do it on your own and you could have withdrawals and die and that's alcohol and opioids.”

“There's all these restrictions against what you can run on social media for alcohol because it's age restricted.”

“Because what I believe in alcohol, you cannot push sales. You have to win sales. Like, as I said, first 10,000 is important. So even sometimes I brew with that idea whether is it the right strategy, but in my last 20 to two decades of my experience, I feel It'…”

“Alcohol is one of, men, especially one of the biggest inhibitors of testosterone.”

“That's an area where, you know, I keep a journal of every alcoholic drink I have a week. Because I love alcohol.”

“If you drink before sleep, and if you're drinking hard liquor, or if you're drinking beer you're, Your sleep cycles are going to be very erratic, and I think most of it goes because of what is happening inside your stomach. You are very dry, and then you will …”

“So the most impactful thing of everything is alcohol. Alcohol is massively, is gonna disrupt your sleep massively.”

“Usually, you lose probably somewhere around 20% sleep quality with alcohol.”

“They're finding out people on Ozempic drink 60% less alcohol.”

“There is evidence, certainly, that chronic alcohol use chronically lowers HRV.”

“I believe alcohol is as bad as smoking. It's only a matter of time before, ah, I think science already caught up. There is absolutely no dispute as far as science goes. But the mainstream media and the communication has not caught up. I think it's a matter of …”

“Also, we don't really have good data for how much is too much, except for alcohol, where we have pretty good data for that.”

“Alcohol is our lowest gross margin percentage category, but our highest gross margin dollar category.”

“Alcohol is particularly resistant to any effects of an economic downturn.”

“Alcohol actually lowers your body temperature, but your perception of that lower body temperature is disrupted. So part of the reason you can fall asleep When you drink alcohol is because it lowers your body temperature.”

“Now about 10% of people have a genetic predisposition to get a big dopamine increase from alcohol.”

“What you're doing with alcohol is sedating your brain, and sedation is not sleep.”

“The third of the four problems with alcohol and sleep is that it will block your rapid eye movement sleep or your dream sleep.”

“In fact, there was a frightening study that demonstrated that a couple of doses of alcohol in the evening, sort of getting you, not really tipsy, but kind of close to that, resulted in a 50% five-zero decrease in growth hormone at night.”

“Started my first startup and I continued like drinking and it became, you know, it was also like a crutch. Like it wasn't just Okay. I'm going to like go party. It was like, I feel upset about something, right? Like there's something that's not going my way in…”

“There are certain individuals who we've seen one glass of alcohol can actually make them sleep better. It tends to get slippery from there, so two to three, three to four, then all of a sudden your sleep really should be disrupted.”

“I think a lot of times with entrepreneurs, especially in Asia, the reason that they get involved with alcohol in particular is because a lot of business is sealed during a drink.”

“Two weeks ago, I stopped drinking, and I really wanted the accountability of social, and so I tweeted, and I tweeted, I decided today that alcohol was just not something that I needed in my life anymore, and something I was relying on too much.”

“I quit about just over a year ago. Actually, I just hit a year, maybe a month ago, and I wasn't really drinking as much as I used to, but I was still drinking probably 15 to 20 drinks a week, and I just realized that it wasn't serving me anymore.”

“And that was it for me. I was like, oh, okay. Why am I doing this to myself? It's not worth it. And ever since then I quit cause I don't want to have that feeling anymore.”

“After the first couple weeks, it became pretty automatic, and I wasn't craving it as much anymore.”

“Well, yeah, I mean, I think the biggest misconception is that alcohol is, not that it's healthy, obviously there are real severe health effects, but because it's a legal substance, I don't think people recognize that you're effectively ingesting a poison, righ…”

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“I'm really bad at moderation. I'm just bad at it. That's why I don't drink, right? It's easier for me to not drink than it is to figure out which ones, what's enough and what's not enough, right?”

“I used to say, 95% of my problems, my personal problems are exacerbated, are caused by the influence of alcohol.”

“I say that you, it's like taking sunglasses off and seeing the light. Your eyes hurt because they're getting used to the light and the sunglasses analogy would like your emotions. None of my emotions are muted. I feel things completely.”

“When you're working out every day, you can checkpoint yourself very easily, like, oh, well, this exact thing that I do every single morning is suddenly harder, so therefore I'm weakened from the alcohol from last night. So the morning workout checkpoint really…”

“Coffee, alcohol, man. Those are the two recession proof businesses.”