Health Benefits When You Stop Drinking (LESSON 6)
Today’s video is from Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life. The lesson is a continuation of yesterday’s, “Just the Facts,” simply with the intention of making you smarter about the substance and its impact on the brain and body. If one of your WHY’s for doing this Alcohol-Free Challenge is “To be HEALTHIER in my body and mind,” this video should give you some additional motivation!
VIDEO INTRODUCTION, copied from YouTube: “Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind and The Alcohol Experiment, is answering reader questions.
Today a reader asks "Can you do a feature compiling the health benefits of stopping drinking and what that looks like?" Highlights of the health benefits when you stop drinking. She also covers:
Alcohol is the cause of 60+ diseases
Alcohol causes cancer
Reducing your drinking or taking 30 days alcohol can lessen your chances of developing cancer
Alcohol is a depressant and why you feel anxious when stopping drinking, due to the release of adrenaline and cortisol
Drinking alcohol disrupts REM sleep, and changing that allows you to regain restorative sleep
Alcohol weakens the heart muscle but it can be strengthened again
Alcohol disrupts blood sugar and can also cause weight gain
Listen to all of the details on the health benefits when you stop drinking”
https://youtu.be/VdygK58DahU?si=rIwqO6hGqpzLRFVi
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