Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests, from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live

by and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,

motivate and inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal

and professional goals. Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today, I'm joined

by the brilliant Oliver Patrick. Oliver is a physiologist and leading expert in lifestyle management.

And last year in December, we recorded an episode together where we discussed the topic of

energy management, how to manage your physical,

mental and emotional energy, how to get more energy. And it was a really interesting episode.

So if you haven't already heard that one, I would encourage you to scroll back, search for that,

give it a listen. That episode was Understanding Energy 6th of December 2020. Okay, so today we're

going to be talking all about alcohol and I am on a mission to find out is alcohol really all

that bad? Alcohol is the topic that I've discussed with quite a few health and fitness professionals,

doctors, nutritionists. It's

something that comes up a lot and I think it's very important to look at all the variety of

factors that we need to consider before we can say in a binary way, yes, alcohol is either good

or bad. So in today's episode, I want to talk to Olly about the physiological effects of alcohol,

the social and emotional influence of drinking, and some stats about our alcohol consumption

here in the UK.

And why some people might want to try giving up alcohol altogether for 30 days, as I know

millions of people give up alcohol in October to take part in the popular campaign,

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