The way that I figured out that I had a drinking problem was that literally every problem in my

life was caused by my drinking. So if that is you, probably don't drink. Yes. If you're more like

Dean, where you are doing 100 healthy behaviors, you go out, you have a couple drinks in the

context of friends, you have great conversations. You meet new people.

You maybe don't have to get super caught up in this idea that, like, removing alcohol is going to vastly improve my health.

There have been a lot of conflicting reports about drinking and health over the past few years.

So for most of time,

scientific bodies said, you know, if you have one or two drinks a day, that could actually help your heart health. But in the last handful of years, that has totally been flipped. And now

a lot of people are saying no alcohol at all, that is going to vastly improve your health.

Now, I do think there is a bit of nuance in this

topic. For example, take me, I do not drink at all. I've been sober for 11 years. And the reason for

that is because my favorite drink, it was always the next one. And if you drink like that,

you can rock up some life problems. But on the other hand,

most people are having one to two drinks every now and then. And I think a big question is,

is that enough to really hurt health? So I'm going to read a couple stats here. Gallup recently

found that drinking is at an all-time low. So when the 70s up through about

2020, between 60 to 70% of the population, drink. Now the figure is 54%. We also have wineries that

are closing in Napa Valley because not enough people are buying wine. And I recently

spoke to a friend who owns a restaurant in L.A.

And she said that a lot of L.A.

restaurants are struggling because no one is drinking anymore.

And restaurants make a lot of money from alcohol sales.

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