alcohol

“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…”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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,…”