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I'm Dr Chris.

And I'm Dr Zand, and for BBC Radio 4,

we contemplate the complex and conflicted world of health and well-being.

We're trying to separate fact from fiction.

How can we best look after our minds and our bodies from dopamine to back pain to sleep deprivation.

So today, Chris, in our second episode of January of this new year, we are tackling our first topic that many of us make resolutions about, and that's alcohol.

That's right. We're emerging from a season where, especially in the UK, I think, um, there is a lot of booze over the Christmas season. And we're going to be looking at what alcohol does to our bodies and a little bit about what it does to our society.

And the big question this week is about dry January because it's kind of the ultimate resolution. It's just a totally clear. It's a national resolution. I was about to say cold turkey, but it's not. I mean, you've already, you've had your cold turkey. Now you're going cold turkey. It's a big commitment. People talk about it a lot. Some people raise money by doing it. And yet, is it worth it? Is there any point to doing it? Especially if come February, the first thing you do is crack open a bottle. But, Zandi, before we get to the main topic, how are you doing? How's the family? I was feeding Rex his breakfast yesterday. I'd made him porridge and I'd put in some dried blueberries, which are actually really nice. He didn't like them. So he's picking them out of the porridge and hand-feeding them to me.

He's putting them in my mouth one at a time.

And if it's your kid, I mean, it would have looked absolutely disgusting to anyone else, but I was really enjoying it. And he thought it was very funny and it helped him eat his porridge. And then for some reason I thought about these, you know, these gastronomic experiences where Heston Blumenthal will serve you a lobster.

But while you eat the lobster, he puts on the headphones and you've got to listen to the sound of the ocean or, you know.

And I thought having a 20-month-old place the food in your mouth one morsela at a time. Imagine if you go to a restaurant

and that was the thing they did. It served you baby food, but a baby fed it to you. But also when

the baby does it like, because indigo, I think, uses me as the, what's it called, like the court

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