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let's get into the show. Welcome to the sober friends podcast. My name's Matt Jay over there is Steve.

And we're here for those of you who are sober curious or are already on the journey

to recovery. We got a nice topic today, Steve. We're going to talk a little bit about

evidence-based recovery, evidence-based medicine type thing that is on my mind versus

AA, which is faith-based based and can those two things be can they be compatible um i was going to share something about like kind of my own health right now because i feel like just getting it off my chest. The last three weeks have been brutal for me.

Here's how they've been brutal.

I think I've talked a little bit about how I have restless legs,

restless leg syndrome.

It has been under control,

the better part of a year.

I was put on gabapentin.

And then all of a sudden, about three or four weeks ago,

this stuff stops working consistently.

And I was waking up every night at, let's say if I go to bed at 10,

I would wake up at 12.45 every single night.

And my legs, like frogs, kick less than I'm waking up to.

If you have restless leg syndrome, you know what it's like.

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