How to Stop Addictions (Nicotine, Alcohol, & Drugs)

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Addiction to substances like nicotine, alcohol, and drugs can be incredibly difficult to overcome. These addictions harm our mental and physical health and deplete essential nutrients in the body, particularly NAD.

NAD is a crucial coenzyme involved in over 500 different chemical reactions in the body. It plays a vital role in energy production, DNA repair, and maintaining proper cellular functioning. However, addiction to substances like nicotine, alcohol, and drugs can significantly deplete NAD levels in the body.

Symptoms of NAD deficiency include fatigue, muscle soreness, weight gain, difficulty sleeping and concentrating, brain fog, and decreased stamina. These symptoms can make it even harder for someone to overcome an addiction.

To combat NAD deficiency, consider taking vitamin B3, also known as niacin. Niacin helps increase NAD levels in the body, improving energy, helping to reduce withdrawal symptoms and cravings, and aiding in addiction recovery.

Some people may experience a flushing response on their skin when taking niacin, which can be uncomfortable. In this case, no-flush niacin can be used instead.

In addition to supplementing with niacin, there are other ways to increase NAD levels in the body, such as intermittent fasting, following a healthy ketogenic diet, and regular exercise.

These lifestyle changes can support addiction recovery and overall well-being. In some cases, clinics offer IV therapy for NAD to help with addiction recovery. However, this can be expensive and not accessible to everyone.

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0:00.0	Today I'm going to give you some extremely valuable information if you want to make the transition off of alcohol, nicotine, drugs, a lot smoother.
0:12.4	And I recently just stumbled on this information
0:14.8	from a Dr. William Kaufman.
0:17.4	Nicotine addiction, alcohol addiction,
0:20.0	eating disorders, anxiety, all have something in common.
0:25.0	There's something in your cells.
0:27.0	Deepen the mitochondria, the energy factory of the cell,
0:30.0	that allows the body to help extract energy from food.
0:38.6	All you need to know is that the major deficiency in all the problems I talked about is NAD. And NAD not only helps you create energy
0:49.4	in the body, but many, many other things. It's involved in over 500 different chemical reactions.
0:54.8	In fact, you can't live without it. You may have heard of N. A.D. supplements and things like that.
0:59.3	I'm not recommending those. I'm recommending the precursor for NAD.
1:05.0	And that is Vitamin B3 Niasin.
1:08.7	Now, niacin is typically known to help you lower cholesterol and increase
1:13.4	htl but it does a lot more.
1:16.5	There's some serious research on this and of course you're not going to hear
1:20.0	it from the medical profession because it goes right against all of the medical
1:25.0	solutions, the drug solutions that are out there. When someone starts to smoke or
1:30.3	drink or take drugs, This creates a huge impact on the person's ability to make NAD as well as
1:38.1	Niacin. And so what kind of person do with an NAD deficiency? Well, you can't correct it by just eating food. It won't work. You need large amounts of niacin to correct this.
1:52.0	And niacin, B- can help calm down the central nervous system
1:57.3	because various chemicals and drugs and alcohol compete for this NAD so they won't allow it to work. So you just need to increase more production of NAD to overcome a lot of the associated problems that come with addictions. So people with addictions are
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