Are you drinking too much alcohol in midlife? - with Dr Nzinga Harrison
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
With one in three women saying they drink more alcohol since becoming peri or menopausal, Dr Nzinga Harrison joins Liz on this podcast to share why she wants us to rethink what we know about drug and alcohol addiction.
In this episode, Nzinga, who is board-certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine, talks Liz through why the menopause may alter our relationship with alcohol, and emphasises that addiction is treatable and chronic, rather than being a choice or a moral failure.
Nzinga shares a four-question screener known as CAGE, which you can do yourself to identify whether you may be struggling with addiction.
They also cover how we can best support our loved ones through addiction and why language matters here.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Buy Un-Addiction by Nzinga Harrison
- Visit Nzinga's website
- Follow Nzinga on Instagram
- Visit the Eleanor Health website
- Purchase A Better Second Half by Liz Earle
- Email us your questions at [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | You love someone with an addiction and it's very painful the way they're treating themselves, the way they're treating you. |
| 0:06.0 | And so blame can be a natural response, but let's think of it the same way with cancer, right? Like cancer is ravishing |
| 0:15.5 | our person, it's very painful for us or let's think about Alzheimer's dementia. |
| 0:20.0 | Excrustiatingly painful but we're able to separate those symptoms from the person and we're |
| 0:27.4 | angry at the illness and we love the person. We need a place for that anger to go, but it's not helpful for that |
| 0:34.8 | anger to go at the person. |
| 0:38.7 | Dr. Zinger Harrison wants us to rethink what we think we know about alcohol and drug addiction. |
| 0:46.2 | This is the Lizzo Well Being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half, |
| 0:51.8 | the title of my latest book and very much my mission, |
| 0:55.2 | finding ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being |
| 1:00.8 | today. I'm Liz Earl, welcome along. It is always such a privilege to have so many world-class experts chatting to me here, sharing their expertise, you know, and having a conversation about the things that really do work to help us all age well. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, I'm so delighted to say that we have now hit over 7 million downloads worldwide. |
| 1:24.4 | Wow with a capital W. |
| 1:26.5 | Thank you so much for all your reviews and your five-star ratings. |
| 1:30.3 | My team and I here really sincerely do appreciate this so much. |
| 1:34.4 | If you have yet to leave a review, please do so. |
| 1:36.9 | We read them all and gain a lot of insight from these, so thank you. |
| 1:40.7 | Well on to today's topic and talking of reviews or more specifically studies, one study conducted by Newsom Health last year found that women in the UK are spending more on alcohol a week than they are on their grocery shop to cope with |
| 1:57.3 | menopause symptoms. |
| 1:59.4 | Isn't that a staggering and totally depressing statistic. |
| 2:03.0 | One in three women said they drink more alcohol |
| 2:07.0 | since becoming Perry or menopausal. |
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