How Does Alcohol Impact Your Gut Microbiome & Leaky Gut? | Dr. Andrew Huberman
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- Dr. Andrew Huberman explains how alcohol impacts your gut microbiome and leaky gut.
Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast.
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I spent so many years of my life under the spell of alcohol, depression and severe ptsd. Gained my freedom with the help of nature using mushroom (psilocybin) precisely. After my experience with shrooms five years ago every bottle of alcohol I picked up tasted like literal poison. I would take one taste put out the alcohol. I haven't drink since, no more depressive mood and ptsd. Few doses of shroom experience made a 15 year 4 bottles a day drinker quit instantly. Shrooms are life changing. There is no way you can put into words what it feels like..
Yes sure of mycologist Pedroshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, addiction. Shrooms can really help break the spell. Whatever spell you may be under.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
Yes he's Pedroshrooms. I know few friends who no longer suffer ptsd and anxiety with
the help of shrooms. Never had to take
shrooms after then.
I too love hearing about others that have made it back.I got addicted cause of a car accident in 2007 that I am still in pain from,that doctors say is only arthritis then they took my pain meds and put me suboxone since Sept 2nd 2021. Even if I take it or not I still have that pain, so afraid I'm gonna git sucked back in to the pills cause I can't even work but can't get disability either so idk what folks like me do but prayer is all I have done and still the pain so idk anymore 😢 sorry for rambling. Just searched on chrome and sent him a message. I would really love to go with this treatment as well
Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Never addictive. Thank you for sharing this point!
If anyone wants help with quitting the sauce, get to know the monkey on your back. It wears a watch, see how long your craving lasts. Mine was (only) twenty minutes every time I wanted to get drunk. Riding out my twenty minutes greatly helped me, it (only) took me 4 months to get back to shore. Good luck, peace
Great advice 👍 The monkey does indeed wear a watch. Thanks for the reminder.
Kill that clock!
Brilliant suggestion. Thank you! This would also work for sugar and any and everything else we are cutting ties with.
Sugar is a hard one, I’ve been a sugar eater since early childhood. When you get a sugar craving, try putting some on your tongue (sea salt or pink salt). If that tasted good have some more. Repeat until you think it tastes too salty, at this point your body received enough salt. This is, salt to taste, it’s a good bio clue or a way to “un-hijack” your tongue from the market. Try it when your staying away from sugar or if you just worked out etc….
(try putting some salt on your tongue, I meant)
I have enjoyed moderate alcohol consumption for most of the last 45 years. I love my wine with dinner 2 to 4 glasses. I often enjoyed a small glass of scotch now and then. A beer or two on a hot day or after working in the garden went down well too. I dont think I ever got drunk.
Two years ago I took a number of measures to get healthy and gave up drinking. Or at least I limited my drinking to having a couple of glasses of wine with an old friend every two or three weeks.
Then I listened to the Huberman podcast on alcohol and its effects on the brain (the long one) a few months ago. I was so shocked that I gave up alcohol altogether.
What happened?
24 drinks a week. I was downing 24 beers a day. Havent drank for 25 days and my gut is barely starting to feel normal again. These videos are def beneficial in understanding how damaging alcohol can be to your brain and body. Gonna see how long i can keep this run up. God bless
Yea 1 to 4 drinks a week.... wtf how about trying my best to kill a bottle a whisky most nights. Good luck on sobriety man. Meditating, working out, and eating healthy and hardy help me alot.
Right!
I developed a “ habit “ that turned into an addiction… minimum of 24 beers a day to 36 sometimes more. I wouldn’t eat until I was about to pass out.
I put on over 200lbs
Over 3 months I haven’t touched the crap. I feel SO good & think clearly. I’ve dropped close to 40lbs not drinking & save a ton of money. Quitting was the best choice EVER!
Keep going my friend!! And maybe try to approach and understand some of the pain that is behind it more often then one might assume. Everyone has things they don't talk about or try their best not even to think about. Wishing you the best 🙏🏼💌
I drank almost daily for the last several years, quitting here and there but always going back to it. I started having gut issues and diarrhea in the mornings. My doctor diagnosed me with alcoholic gastritis, which is an inflammation of the stomach lining. Thankfully its curable, and now that I'm 14 days on the wagon, my gut related problems are virtually gone. Feeling better every day.
What are the way to cure it? I have it too but can’t seem to get it under control
Did you change your diet as well?
Consuming alcohol daily is very beneficial for health. Like anything you eat or drink, it is quantity that counts. So drinking regular vast volumes can be detrimental in the long run, but drinking a few pints or large bottles of strong beer daily can help maintain a very positive gut biosphere and overall health, combined with a fairly active outdoor lifestyle.
@@Globetrotter-1 not when your body is suffering from overuse of alcohol. You must lay off it for a while to give your gut a rest from the constant trauma
@@TrizzleTV Drinking 500ml to 1litre of 7% to 9% proof 🍺 beer daily for an average man is definitely not overuse, and is very beneficial to maintain the kidneys in perfect health. A normal working liver copes with those amounts very easily.
I have recently found out that after years of leg cramps and trying electrolytes, hydration,topicals and ibuprofen it all came down to the alcohol usage. After I eliminated all alcohol my leg cramps and pain was reduced by 75-80%. I walk better and stairs are no longer a problem. Recently came back from a trip to Germany and Austria . The tour was centered around breweries. One day I did 19,000 steps and it was killing my legs. I couldn’t keep up with the tour group which was embarrassing. Now I know and just passing this along as my experience.
Same here, frequent heavy drinker.
Always leg cramps, stopped drinking and ate 3 bananas a day and now i have no more cramps.
Why bananas? Because they contain magnesium, cramps are most often because a lack of magnesium.
I wasn't for pills.
You shouldn't take ibruprofen for cramps, only if you are in incredible pain and cant sleep or something
Ibuprofen? Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole.
@@vandemon9643 Despair is a dangerous emotion that very few can deal with.
Beer is painful for my feet, gin is better but everything in moderation.
Thank you for your clear description of how our alcohol impacts our brain liver, and gut I’ve been alcohol free for almost 3 years now, and you describe the behavior that I was experiencing. I always assumed it was just a genetic predisposition, but based on what you’ve described, I was clearly in that cycle. Thank you I feel so much better about myself today.
The way AH puts this complex info into a form that is understandable to the layperson (if they're open to hearing it) is a great resource to give people who want/need to stop drinking. Once one understands and can accept the way that molecule indiscrimately effects any/all cells in the body, it is a powerful/empowering mindset to not injest that substance.
That cycle is so very real. I didn't know that it's a self reinforcing system at the biochemical level in that way.
You are actually being very conservative and kind when it comes to alcohol intake. I have been guilty of a heck of a lot more than the amount of drinks you stated. This has been informative, so I wanted to thank you!
I’m there with you. I can feel everything in my body slowly dying, we need to stop doing this. I still wanna get really drunk, but maybe just once a month.
Same with 3+ beers on the low end and 10+ on the higher end in a single day - drinking daily. I can certainly feel a burnout with having 30+ in a week
As someone with chronic depression and generalized anxiety, cutting down on booze was a necessity. It's so worth it to wake up with a clear head and conscience. No amount of alcohol can replace that feeling that life is fine and can get better with age
This comment is the best I have anxiety almost every time after a night of drinking I’m jittery thinking to much and always feeling fear I NEED TO STOP DRINKING BUT ITS HARD BUT DEFINITELY NOT WORTH THE FEELINGS AFTER ITS SCARY
@@BriiKustomDesignsdid you stop drinking?
@@bilifangbasumatary8424 it’s been hard I only been clean 6days everyday i wake up feeling panic and it’s annoying I staying clean I hope this changes
Alcohol had worse effects on me than any other drug I’ve ever tried. Thanks for helping me understand more about it.
Yep the dumbest suff ever done is on alcohol
I started drinking at 15 im 38 now and decided to walk away from alcohol, i drank every weekend why younger and then turned into everyday as i got into my 20s up till now!! I started feeling dreadful the last few months and ended up in hospital Christmas day, i kept feeling like i was going to pass out, i had a severally dehydrated kidney! It was my wake up call, ain't touched a sip since that day! I am still having bad side effects from quitting, been having fast heart rhythms, head ake's, i feel tired more, i won't ever return to alcohol now my mind feels so much better and its only early days!
we have the same time lines of drinking ect... im on day 5 stomach messed up but im never going back
Sending you kindness and blessings Dr. Huberman
I started seeing a GI doctor about six months ago, because I was having horrible nausea, but only at night when I was laying down. As soon as I was prone, the nausea would start in. This was causing me to miss many, many hours of sleep. I was trying to sleep sitting up, but that ended up causing pilonidal disease; a sore near your tailbone. I had an Endoscopy, Fibroscan and stomach emptying study. All of these came back relatively normal. I didn't realize that it was actually alcohol that was causing my stomach lining to be irritated. It only took a few days after I stopped drinking for my nighttime nausea to go away.
I’m 63, all I know is work and sleep. No money for exotic vacations, etc…just the way things worked out, working class start to life. Having a few beers and watching a game at a local tavern is one of the few glimpses of happiness I get. Probably twice a month. Feel good so far. No plans to quit that. No one has good health forever. This is good enough for me. That’s my take.
I’m sorry man I feel for you rest in peace
I had to quit drinking because I have realised that I was drinkig way to much, low energy, panick attacks like hell, hole in the budget, almost ended my relantionship!
Life is way more beautiful without alcohol!
Key understanding for us folks who are working on recovering from Colitis! Thanks again
Good evening. I began drinking alcohol at age 38 for approximately seven years every night. I would then immediately go to bed. Fast forwarding I was clinical diagnosed with early stage Parkinson. this took place four years ago. I now have seen extreme improvements while taking a probiotic, turmeric six times a day, artemisinin, lemon balm, pinella antioxidant. I believe my gut microbiome was damaged thus creating toxic proteins, inflammation, leaky gut and so on. I also recently learned (as you stated) the gut is responsible for producing nearly fifty percent of dopamine. I'm currently seeking and working on improving my gut microbiome and hoping this continues to restore the levels of producing dopamine. I'm hopeful being that I'm only 49 it has not reached the pathway of the neurologic part of the brain as well. I off course stopped drinking over four years ago. Knowledge is power when utilized in the right manner! So, thank you for your dedication to sharing your knowledge. Please feel free to reach out if you have any insight to offer or require more information/data concerning my progress etc..
Brett, thank you very much for this..I was diagnosed with Parkinson's late in 2021 and haven't used any "drug therapy."
I'm a "moderate" drinker, but have been wondering if there was any connection.
My mother suffered (greatly, in the end) from Parkinson's was a very regular drinker.
I used to make my own yoghurt, for years, "cooking" it for 12 hours, rather than the recommended 6 and am planning to restart that tomorrow and will endeavour to make it my resolution for '23 to knock alcohol into touch.
Thanks, once again, for the info!
Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate you
Please may you do a video about probiotics, gut health and the brain?
I’ll go sober for a few weeks it’s amazing how much better I look. I don’t eat junk food and I drink water. However I can get a routine of having a few drinks of club soda, lemon and Tito’s. When I stop and re-start back up the difference in the way I look and feel are unbelievable to me every time.
Gin and tonic drinker myself.
Yup, it’s very dehydrating.
Same for me. But it's also the same for simple sugars, and wild how similarly sugar affects all aspects of your body (including collagen)
Yeah see i never noticed this cuz ive always been so healthy
I started having sleep problems.. falling asleep, then waking up after one hour and being awake for 3-4 hours, because my stomach felt so full and not moving.. also combined with a heavy heart beat.. now i try not eating after 8 pm and also limiting alcohol to 1-2 times a week (been drinking beer or wine every day just to fall asleep for around 3-4 years)
Some other foods to help promote a healthy gut microbiome from personal experience. All of which have been helping me the last year or so. Fermented foods and cutting out sugar and alcohol like mentioned. Increasing your fibre and water intake is also very important. But for me, oats, bananas, avocado, cabbage, other dark leafy greens like spinach and kale, legumes and blueberries. Blueberries, bananas, cabbages and oats have especially helped me as well as increasing my soluble fibre and water intake. I've also started eating less red meat and more chicken and fish and reducing dairy due to developing a lactose sensitivity. Took some time but I'm sleeping better. Feeling better in general, both physically and mentally, and now I have a bad week each month or so instead of a good day or two each month, usually the bad week is after a night of drinking so that should also tell you something...
Take good care of yourselves, you only get one body. Wish I'd valued mine more well before I turned 40, simple things like eating wouldn't be such a struggle.
Edit: A night of drinking OR binging on cheese or ice cream 🤣
Stopped for 2 years felt amazing! Slowly introduced it and did very rarely now a few days ago drank a very heavy amount on a night out and feel very sour, low depressed emotional and my stomach feels like it’s burning this may be the final straw which led me to these videos love the advice in the comments here peace and health to all of us I hope 🤞
I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in my mid twenties and I’m fifty now…. And FINALLY have under control. Grateful for your wisdom Dr. Huberman! You have a real gift to break these things down for us so that we can understand it. Good thing i don’t like booze! I wonder if college binge drinking didn’t get this whole cycle spinning off into the crazies…. One plus one = exponential chaos.
Would you please consider discussing the effects of THC on the gut, brain and liver micro biome? Is it less destructive for the gut and is it a “healthier” alternative to alcohol? I have Hashimotos autoimmune and would like to know if it’s less inflammatory than alcohol on the immune system. Thank you for your topic consideration and help!
Yes it has no inflammatory effects
@@Hehawtyragu Not in all cases, some people are very allergic to THC and it couldn't be any more inflammatory.
@@stizz19 okay I obviously meant with people who arnt allergic lol
Here is an alternative for you Jennifer. Stay 100% sober!
@@PeterBornAgainlol
I’m 74 and drank steadily for years, seldom to the point of intoxication but 1-2 each day for years. Have had my sigmoid colon removed because it was dead tissue due to diverticulum with abscess’s. Also diagnosed with fatty liver which is a precursor to cirrhosis. Stopped drinking; no more issues. Booze is such a destructive drug!
thank u for ur honesty
74 is a long time without having major issues
@@davidr6865 i agreee.....Id say he dodged alot of bullets. Im 54 and have drank for decades. Ive cut back a bit....just starting to cut back as ive devaloped some gut issues out of no where.
40 years of heavy abuse, as much as a liter or hard liquor a day. Having a lot of GI bleeds, chronic nausea, no appetite most of the time, but determined to get sober. Scared as hell to undergo a colonoscopy in a couple of weeks at 57, prompted when I shat blood and could not get it to stop for 40 minutes. 🤞
@@nathanielovaughn2145 good luck man, god bless. You’re going to be okay. Stress makes everything worse
I love a good old fashioned with a prime sirloin steak with blue cheese and balsamic reduction. Crème brûlée or cheesecake for dessert. Have it every Saturday and look forward to it all week. I’ve dieted my way too much in the past, at almost 50 I’m going to enjoy good food in moderation and I don’t give a fluff anymore!
I drank a bottle of wine a night for many many years. I love the taste of alcohol and it helped relax me. I think I got off lightly and managed this for a long time. When this was coupled with severe and chronic stress due to family violence, things change. It was the strw that broke the camels back and I ended up with two severe diverticular haemmorhages which nearly killed me. I no longer drink and have spent 2 years focussing on healing my gut. High probiotic intake for three months, NAG, L glutamine and other things and I feel great.
I’ve been drinking heavily for past 4 years 8 -15 beers a day odd times at dinner add 2-3bottles some times weekends 15beers+3 bottles of wine special occasions add 2bottles of whiskey,or Havana Club,or Johnny Walker,or Chivas Regal etc
Quit Monday August 12/24 3 days so far 🤞
Past 3 nights though I’m shaking like crazy sweating like I ran a marathon horrible nightmares,as a matter of fact it’s 1:00 am I need to go for a walk to try to tire myself out can’t sleep my anxiety is bad but I’m just keeping it to myself about quitting because I don’t want to announce it to anyone until I’m offered a drink, and then explain ,why to my family and close friends .
Honestly I don’t want to jinx it because from what I’ve been told and convinced myself…”action speaks louder than words.
Take care everyone
out there going through the same thing I am
🙏Bless
I’m in the same boat and understand
I think the most interesting science is how alcohol affects the heart and vascular system , which has the most devastating effects of all foreign systems in my opinion. 40% of all heart failure and arrhythmias is due to alcohol starving, heart cells of oxygen and causing chronic hypertension, exacerbating, acceleration of heart failure, and kidney damage
Really great info. I stopped drinking 3+ years ago and feel 1,000 healthier.
Have you thought about going vegan?
I drove past the liquor store today.... I would have turned in but it seemed like my fussy digestive tract would not stand for it. Then along comes this video!
i am a cyclist, just for fitness, less than 100 miles a week. every summer when the heat rises, eventually i experienced loose movements. a few years back covid hits, all the bars closed. summer of 2020 no alcohhol, no loose movements. did not ever think to blame alcohol. now i drink 3-4 drinks a month november to march
12-24 drinks a week?!?! I was up to 44/week… lightweights😂
I’m so thankful for sobriety😁
A friend had 2 bottles of Jim beam in 1 day... crazy how much people can tolerate...
Ya I was on 1/4 fifth a night for a while
I hear ya, 12-24 a night is more like it. But I too quit and gut problem gone.
@@Dan-qt7kq it’s not a competition, but you would’ve won if it was. Congratulations on getting on the straight and narrow.
me too
I think people way underestimate what they drink and how it affects them. Working in GI you see the effects of mild-moderate use over time and it is not without consequence on the end organs and co-morbid conditions. One of the saddest things to have to tell someone that is my age is that they now have cirrhosis because they had NAFLD and drank 2-3 glasses of wine nightly. It is being seen in more women and in all people at younger ages.
I'm in the process if losing my brother to 40 plus years of smoking and alcohol. His liver is damaged causing him liver cancer. He suffered from pancreatitus and had a heart defibrillator something like that implanted on his heart. Now he's only weeks if not days to live. I've a personal vendetta against alcohol abuse and smoking. Plus he had a Terrible diet and used drug's like cocaine meth and heroine. His life was a life gone wrong due to these unhealthy behaviors. I myself am currently going through rectal cancer. However I've never used drug's alcohol and gave at least tried to eat well especially now.🙏
I dj for a living. I only drink on the weekends. But starting to have nerves in my feet feel weird and what I think is leaky gut 😭
Thanks for this information Dr Andrew Huberman
After better sleep. My digestion was the first thing I noticed . Replacing booze with proper gut health has made a big difference .
i wish 16 years old me could watch this and actually take it seriously. im 37 now and completely stopped alcohol like 2 years ago. funny alright, but a proctologist recommended it to me, while we were discussing my weight issue, that im mega underweight and always have been. always meaning that for like 20 years i have been trying to gain weight but never stopped getting drunk 2-3 times a week. in my countries culture drinking alcohol every day is perfectly fine. but i moved to the west and now this random proctologist tells me im kind of an alcoholic and im killing my gut, intestines, etc? now im like 2kg-s away of having normal weight - according to BMI..
30+ drinks a week. Stomach was devastated and had problems throughout my qhole body. Stopped. Started a healthy diet and incorporated appl cider vinegar. Everything is regulating.
Great information. I usually have a pour of bourbon each evening, and my doctor always told me that one drink a night is actually good for me. I never thought about this gut-liver-brain relationship. I did start taking probiotics recently, and I can tell they have been very beneficial.
Can you make a video on diet and lifestyle for people who are planning to stop alcohol consumption and who has already stopped talking.
When he says "alcohol kills bacteria" which everyone already knows, it makes me think of how doing so resets what was there.
Inflammatory like to Inflame as in on fire makes me think that the alcohol burns away what was there.
Pretty interesting stuff.
I am a regular at the gym and often paid for my sins at the bar with exercise. I suffered a widow maker heart attack at 49 in otherwise great health. Everyone that knew me was shocked that I would have a heart attack. Alcohol and sugar darn near killed me.
Yep. The two killer toxins. Hope you're doing well now.
Did your father or grandfather have heart problems
@@Dan_Yerlll Great question that everyone should ask about themselves (if possible) from an early age. My father died at age 40 from 'heart attack' in 68. Had type2 diabetes and like everyone then was a smoker. Still, 40?!? Being 100% scandanvian, there are certain things (OA, diabetes, alc., etc.) to which I'm at risk.
Do you have a vid on how to restore good gut bacteria? Perhaps top 10 foods in order and top 10 to avoid?
I have a question about alcohol, percentages and effects of killing bacteria. I know that alcohol of 70% or more can kill bacteria. However, I would never think to pour a beer or wine over an open wound as the alcohol percentage is so low. I also read That alcohol of 10% or less had no effect on bacteria in the mouth. Would the same be true for bacteria in the gut? Would drinking a beer of 6% have the same affect on the gut as drinking a whiskey of 60%?
Now that’s a good question
I am currently in the process of reducing my alcohol consumption that has been a major problem since having 2work related neck surgeries. I stopped training, and started drinking, for 4 years i smashed my body with pain killers and alcohol, and my body, brain and gut have never been the same. It all changes this year, I have broken my dependency on alcohol and now its time to rebuild from the ground up. A little daunting at 44, but videos like this give me confidence that i can fix it. So glad I found Dr Huberman's RUclips and podcast.
I resonate with Everything u said. 5 days sober. Feel so unhealthy and sad i did this to myself. I CANT GO BACK
Same here. Had some pretty bad stomach issues back in September. Had blood tests, stool tests, Endoscope, abdominal ultrasound etc. Found some sludge in my Gallbladder which is more from eating fatty foods and whatnot. I did get sober and eat very clean for 3 months, kind of fell off the wagon a bit and have paid for it. Cutting back alcohol was huge. I drink still now, but i need to cut back even further and I am eating much healthier.
100% agree. Been thru basically the same myself. AH puts out such great material on so many topics. All the best to you.
Best thing I done,is give up booze,8 years ago,never smoked ether,train,3 times a week,weights& cardio.
Like a lot of people, I found myself drinking more during the pandemic and started to experience near-constant intestinal inflammation and bloating that flared up each time I drank. I had to accept that self-medicating with a glass (or three) of wine at the end of a stressful day was no longer a viable option if I wanted to enjoy a long healthy life. After only 3 weeks without drinking, taking probiotics and daily hour-long walks, my gut is already 75-80% better and I'm falling in love with feeling good every day, waking up alert and up for anything. Dry January might become permanent....
That's awesome to hear. I had similar problems and decided to finally quit on December 30th. I'm 14 days into 2023 completely sober!
Same the burning sensation the bloating the nerves gut is consuming my life so stop drinking for a week I’m doing 40 days without it and feel great like you said I’m falling in love with the good feeling
Smoke some weed instead lmao
I drink every night and have zero probs. Byeeeeeeeeeeee
Same here. I wonder what real percentage of people are experiencing this. I’m also concerned about the other toxins we are not able to avoid. Hope you continue to be well.
Sounds like 3-5 beers a day is a bad idea
TnX
my gut liver brain is coming for you as we speak
The body will shut down everything to discreet alcohol
The only small red flag I picked up was the statement that alcohol can destroy bacteria in the gut.
I was under the impression that by the time it would take for alcohol or any of its by products to reach
that part of the body the alcohol would have been changed to any of those by products such as acetate.
plus the concentration in the blood isn't high enough to kill bacteria, that's why anti-bacteria wipes are 90%+ solution.
You said alcohol doesn't discriminate which bacteria it kills, but only mentioned bad bacteria being able to escape the gut. Does good bacteria not do the same?
Thanks
Minor aside, kimchi is Korean, not Japanese. I’m about to have some that my American wife made. 😊
Also, I learned here today that we’ve been overcoming these gut health issues from daily consumption of 2-3 drinks. Rather than raising our glasses to celebrate our victory, we decided to find out what happens with our consumption of ferments with no alcohol. Wish us luck, please, as we embark on a 60-day no etoh challenge. I’ll report back.
He was enumerating: kimchi, natto - which is the one he referred to as Janapese
You need more drinks to acquire the taste
It took me 1-2 years of drinking everyday. Now I love the taste 🤤
Have you addressed the effect of alcohol use by the elderly?
I quit drinking 4 months ago. I still have chronic anxiety and auto-immune issues. Currently on day 4 or carnivore. If this doesn't fix my anxiety, I'm going back to alcohol. At least I had moments of joy when I was drinking.
You probably need vitamins, exercise and intermittent fasting
@@CAdams93 Carnivore seems to be helping the anxiety. Going to keep going and see if it continues improving my anxiety. Alcohol can wait another few months.
@@JM-co6rf that's great!!!
What amazes me and this is 100% true from my experiences, all the people I know who have suffered from demensia (about a dozen people), are non drinkers. I also have friends who drink a lot, are in their 70s and 80s and are still healthy? So how does that work?
Genetics. My great-grandfather drank daily and lived to be 96, dying from natural causes. Yet, one of my uncles who was a heavy drinker died from bladder cancer at 69.
@@Dusty338 Agree, and eating habits probably have a lot more to do with living longer than having a drink here and there. I have my Friday night out drinking, but eat really healthy, and at 61 I am very much younger than my age.
@mxlarge6915 Yeah, eating habits and physical fitness. My great-granddad had an active life, fought in WWI, and was just a tough old guy. He also probably ate a lot healthier back in his day then a lot of folks do today.
Laughter is the best medicine....drinkers laugh a lot generally....
I weaned myself off Prilosec (Omeprazole) and am stopping drinking now. Also trying to cut down / eliminate coffee. My gut feels better than ever!
great information only recently stopped alcohol noticed a difference in my gut in a positive way hoping it will improve more ,great video!
As a none drinker I fail to see the reason people use alchol .America had the chance to make it illegal dureing the prohibition and for a reason that has never been fully explaind they back peddled and changed there minds .Why was that .was it a monetry desition or some other reason ?
America back peddled because even with alcohol prohibited. It was still illegally transported to the country , by it being illegal it caused a lot of violence during the mafia Al Capone days. By making alcohol illegal , it caused the crime rate to increase because you had smugglers fighting against each other for profits . It's sought of like illegal drugs and the drug war.
The leaky guy discussion is controversial at best. Sounds like pseudoscience.
Can you go into more detail like 1oz 2oz of whiskey, vodka, wine, tequila, and a couple of beers. This is supper interesting and I think your into something here.
This is why ill have alittle sip of something if I think i ate some food that might be bad worked well so far lol
Great man! I confirm - I'm a former alcoholic. It took me so much effort to stop drinking...I still feel addicted though and often fight with a wish to have a drink ....but it's worth it. Every effort. My life changed from wretched, in all aspects, to full of joy and energy. Main thing - my family relations restored , regained success at work (although it took me almost a year to put my brain back in order after drinking), now spend time that I gave to alcohol, on my children, wife, friends and good people. Spend it on sports and electronics, learning chinese, things i like to do. Just don't give up. fight with alcohol with all your might for your dear ones, and you will win.
This is inspiring to hear. I had my last drink on December 30th, and started 2023 sober. 14 days on the wagon now, and I'm seeing some early benefits. Your post gave me hope, and I'm happy you're having success!
@@Dusty338 Easy way to control achohol by Allan Carr really worked for my wife and I. We tried dry Jan last year and both of us liked it so much we barely drink now. Once you quit for a couple of weeks you find out you ARE NOT OLD you were just poisoning your body:) Good Health to you and yours!
You’ll never be a former alcoholic (once an alcoholic you’re always be an alcoholic) what you have is a daily reprieve from alcohol, I wish you every success a day at a time.
Appreciate your efforts
I drank a 12 pack (on average) for 33 years every day...finally quit on November 5, 2022 after over 120,000 drinks...I have lost 25 pounds and feel like a new man~ If you can't stop, just Stop anyway, it's worth it...
I loved having a beer or 2 after work . When I gave up cigarettes my craving was so bad to smoke I totally forgot to drink beer with the boys and accidentally gave up drinking. Not even interested in alcohol any more.
I've never been a drinker and have always eaten as healthy as I can but my health is not good. There's others who drink every day and are as strong as an ox.
Glad i never picked up substance addiction.
It’s sad that it’s in every tv show and movie and some commercials
It’s a disgrace how neglected the microbiome has been in medicine. It’s changing for the better I guess, but the frivolous prescriptions of antibiotics has caused endless harm.
In a sense we are hollow from our mouth to your ejection portal (how's that for pc)
Alcohol and using as antiseptic is great .. but .. it’s on the outside of your body .it’s different..
Before I quit drinking my gut and digestive system was so out of balance. I feel so much better.
Yeah I'm done with my 10 beers a night.
My uncle is 71 and has been getting drunk daily for about 40 years. He starts when he wakes up and continues until bedtime. Drinks at least a 12 pack a day or the equivalent amount of whiskey/wine. I thought he was going to die years ago but he seems fine and doesn't have any major health issues. I've never seen him not drunk. If alcohol is so unhealthy, how can someone do this and live so long without major health issues??
it`s probably what you think about what you intake that affects you the most. I also know people who are flourishing physically and emotionally while being total alcoholics, smokers etc. the effect is encoded into a substance and needs to be consciously denied, then I think anything in moderation is actually healthy and beneficial for you. like the communion tradition in the Christian religion.
Took my mother in law to after 80 to get laryngeal cancer from her long term alcohol use (4-7 drinks per day for decades). Spent the last 5 years of her life nonverbal from the total laryngectomy + the accelerated dementia. Ruff.
How do democrats affect my gut health, they are a lot worse than alcohol
Red wine is good for your microbiome! It is actually increasing the diversity of bacteria of your intestinal microbiome! In moderate amounts red wine is the drink of the Gods!
Hats off to you . Thank You for your research.
This is very interesting, from someone who could be on either side of the fence. Good convincer to stay on the healthy side! Thank you.
Thank yu yur so right but no one lustens I no someone won’t listen at all iv giveing up on him won’t listen.
Alcohol put my stomach thru the wringer
More than a good handful of times
Don’t even wanna beer now
The gut is probably the biggest organ in the human body, yet it has been neglected for centuries by researchers and practitioners.
Like many young men in the 1970's during my years in University and well beyond, I used alcohol moderately, and once in a while, quite heavily. As I aged, I noticed I could just not tolerate alcohol as well. Long story short, by the time I was 50, I realized that alcohol was just another thing that was sold to the public as safe and even sexy - much as cigarettes were in the 50's and 60'. I don't drink at all now - I see alcohol as another poison. I don't miss it or have even a slight desire for it, in fact, I respect my good gut bacteria that work with me everyday to make me healthy and strong. They are my allies. Why poison them?
i drink 2 pours of whiskey almost every night. i also maintain a balanced diet and exercise regularly. my golden rule is no drink before 5pm or after 8pm. i do feel fine and am quite ‘regular’ but this addiction will always have consequences. the paradox of my life is that i’m too good at abusing substances in a methodical manner.
You anti drink tubers are a dime a dozen on here. How about some originality.
I don t know ı dreanck only kıllos of beear maybe you tell me about cocaıne
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So... beer and sauerkraut. That's what I heard.
what about probiotic alcoholic drinks like unpasteurized makgoeli and sake?
so interesting i don't love alcohol and i am getting sleepy when i drink it too, i don't get drunk, i've never had hangover...
Alcohol is a poison. The drug with the higher social cost and the most tolerated which makes it one of the worst and most dangerous. Alcohol is in fact the only drug which its withdrawal symptoms might kill you.
Dr. Andrew Huberman, Please make a video about near-death experiences. What is happening in the body. What we know about it, what is mystical about them, how they change the perception and personalities.
Also, children telling past-life stories seems highly interesting subject.
Helpful. I used to have 1-2 drinks almost every night, but stopped when my energy went down after an extended respiratory disease. It's hard to find information on the impact of chronic alcohol use in moderate amounts; what I've seen is studies indicating it reduces the risk of heart attack, but I had long suspected it has deleterious effects on the liver and gut, and this gives a lot of insight.
Just so you know: there is no research that proves that alcohol causes a reduction in cardiac events. Any study which suggests this was showing a correlation with some moderate alcohol intake and cardiac events. The problem with correlation is that there are other explanations for why the reduction might occur and there are, indeed, other explanations for the data that is produced.
@@HughCorbyCruick For the same reason, there are no studies that show alcohol causes an increase in cardiac events...
@@HughCorbyCruick Well I don't know if you are right but I can just feel how alcohol could be good for the heart.
1-2 glasses of wine after a stressful day, and you feel all that pressure melt away so there's probably something to it. However alcohol is problematic also
@@DanielAnderssson Oh, I agree about that wonderful effect, which is why so many of us love it. Of course, now working in the addiction field for 40+ years, I’ve had heroin users get that same effect from their drug of choice.
@@HughCorbyCruick Well then I get how you formed your opinion. But in reality the world of drugs is complex and not that black & white.
So you work nights 3 days a week, you come home and have a shot of spirits to go to sleep because you can’t sleep during the day? Which is worse
Not sleeping is worse.
For folks like me who are not quite fully addicted to alcohol but drink an unhealthy amount (I used to drink like 3-6 strong beers a day) here's what helped me cut down significantly (now some weeks I don't drink, some maybe 2 nights a week) without fully quitting. Start small but hard. Maybe 1-2 weeks sober. You'll know you can drink again relatively soon, and 2 weeks is just enough time to start feeling fairly good. You'll begin to practice not listening to the impulse. For me I proved to myself I could go to bars with friends and be alright being sober. After that try to limit yourself to drinking only a few nights a week. It's OK if you fall off at this point, it's a marathon not a sprint. A 4-6 months later do a sober month and stick to it. You'll get very used to not drinking at this point. Reflect on your past scheduling for how often you were drinking and use what you learned to adapt to a new schedule. Try hard to stay on this one. Every year do 1-2 months sober just to cleanse and keep you honest. At this point your entire relationship with alcohol will be different and you won't have to keep such a strict watch on yourself, you'll do it naturally
on a serious note.. totally summing me up.. half French, half Scottish, love wine - hate being drunk - I'm like it just a wee wine - thats it - I'm so quitting - tonight its camomile and a bit of honey
Yup we’re slowly dying out here trying to do everything on our own. Good luck to everyone who is realizing the vicious cycle and can’t afford help or time off work.