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All right, let's talk medical news if we can,

dry January.

And in the magazine, you call it dry January.

Yes and this has been a trend here in this country and in the UK for several years.

I've been doing it myself for probably the last seven years.

That's why I renamed it, Dry January, but a recent

study in the British Medical Journal really highlighting how a month of alcohol-free abstinence,

and we're not talking about people who have alcohol use

disorder can really yield some big benefits improving insulin resistance

dropping weight dropping both numbers on blood pressure compared to people who did not give up alcohol just for

30 days.

There are some strategies that I've found helpful and that people talk about when they're going

to do this.

Avoiding places that trigger desire to drink. We don't realize how

wrote that behavior is using a calendar to just cross off the days and you can look

at your progress and then managing those urges by either chewing gum or drinking a

mocktail absolutely helps and we have to be crystal clear you guys excessive

alcohol consumption even heavy moderate alcohol consumption

known to increase the risk of heart and liver disease,

depression, multiple types of cancer.

So everyone will feel better

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