352: Stop Thinking About Drinking with Belle Robertson
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
I love everything that’s bad for me, and alcohol certainly falls under that umbrella. It’s a love-hate relationship really, and I don’t drink anymore. At this stage of my life, it’s just not worth it. Am I boring and health-obsessed? Probably. But maybe you are too.
Here’s what we know about booze: Sixty-one million Americans are classified as binge alcohol users and 16 million as heavy alcohol users. Alcohol plays a role in one in three cases of violent crimes, and 10,000 people die each year in alcohol-related car accidents in the U.S. alone.
But most people who drink too much or too often are not alcoholics, so the problem goes unaddressed and unresolved—and yet, the lifelong impact is massive. My guest on this week’s podcast was an over-drinker who started a 30-day sober challenge that has lasted over six years. If you’re concerned that you might be drinking too much or too often, this is an important show to listen to.
Listen & Learn:
- The difference between high bottom drinking vs. low bottom drinking
- How moderate drinking can be a story you tell yourself
- Why alcohol can affect just about everyone
- Why if you think you have a problem, you probably do
- What life is like on the other side of the bottle
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Belle Robertson is Canadian but lives in Paris. She’s a writer, baker, and caterer. She’s also a “sober coach” and her book, Tired of Thinking About Drinking, is available on her website along with her 100-Day Sober Challenge.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. I am a yoga trainer. I am a nutritional coach, an |
| 0:08.6 | entrepreneur, I'm a dad, but really more than anything I'm just a student and I love |
| 0:12.1 | learning. This show is an opportunity |
| 0:14.1 | for me to learn from authors and researchers and teachers all around the world and hopefully share |
| 0:19.8 | some of their best teachings with you. On this week's show we'll be talking about alcohol |
| 0:23.7 | specifically, not so much alcohol addiction but alcohol abuse which probably 8 out of 10 of you |
| 0:28.9 | have a problem with at least you have at some point or maybe you will develop or maybe you have a sneaking |
| 0:34.3 | suspicion that you're drinking a bit too much. The thing about alcohol is you'll |
| 0:40.0 | find really good information, good news about your bad habits online if you go looking. |
| 0:45.1 | This idea that alcohol will save your heart, that resveritrol is wonderful, all of this research |
| 0:51.7 | is really biased and one-sided and you really need to dig deeper. |
| 0:56.0 | Resveratrol, for example, the compound that's often credited with longevity in red wine, |
| 1:02.0 | you'd need to drink about 1500 bottles a day. So good luck with that. |
| 1:06.6 | In terms of the cardiovascular benefits of alcohol, all of those are more like a medication in the |
| 1:11.7 | same way that maybe a baby aspirin might be appropriate if you're you know if you have some kind of |
| 1:17.0 | cardiac condition this is medication all things considered you're much better off |
| 1:22.0 | just not drinking full stop now I know |
| 1:24.6 | that sounds really puritanical and really boring and to be fair I think it is pretty |
| 1:29.5 | boring at the same time you have to think about what kind of life you want to live and at some point probably for most people listening to this show |
| 1:37.3 | Alcohol needs to play a very very small if not completely absent role in your life |
| 1:42.3 | Because as our our guest on this week's show |
| 1:46.1 | suggested alcohol is this downward elevator that either slowly or quickly is |
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