This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,

pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi, this is Annie Grace and I'm actually here with Dr. Adi Jaffrey from the Alternative Speakers Health Clinic in LA.

We had this great opportunity, I'm at the Harm Reduction Conference where I spoke yesterday on the label of alcoholic and we have this great opportunity to kind of meet up.

As you know, I answer questions, answer ridiculous questions.

Today I have one from Nash and it's one that I've been thinking about for a few weeks actually because it was one that I wasn't able to find a ton of research online and having this opportunity to have Dr. Jaffrey here and his expertise just bring so much to the table so I'm really excited to be able to bring his expertise to this answer.

So the question from Nash is about recovery time. So he says, I feel a lot better being two and a half months from an alcohol.

Some days it's still hard to get out of bed however and I wonder when it will feel even better than that.

And when I look for answers online I get different recovery sources which don't actually answer my question.

My question is how long does it take to get your energy back, to start feeling restoration of like your organs and your symptoms and start to feel the psychological changes and benefits.

I'm eager to be able to capacity physically and emotionally and I expect that there's still going to be some time of rebuilding effort but I'd really like to know what I can expect in terms of time.

So I think it's a great question and just briefly all answer based on kind of my own experience.

I'm wondering if I know what life but I'm wondering if we can turn it.

So okay if I'm able to start telling your story.

Yeah. I think we're sideways on them.

I don't think that it might work out or did so.

No, yeah.

Because it's showing it doesn't it.

Oh I see what you mean.

You talking all of just this.

Okay so my experience was I'd say it was probably six months before I really started feeling you know significantly significantly better.

I think it's...

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