natedawggh
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Hi RPF,
I have recently come to the realization that I am an alcoholic. This is not really news to me, as I have been a heavy drinker for ten plus years. As my health got worse and worse I did more research and learning into the specific symptoms of my condition, all the while having this inclination that even an occasional drink was in the least not helping my condition and at the worst, causing it. My health was so bad that even taking ONE drink a week would cause me to have severe shortness of breath that was rather frightening, and even then I would still drink. This is why I had to go Alcoholics Anonymous, because I could not stop on my own and many areas of my life were suffering because of the fallout of alcohol use.
My point is not to suggest anyone else need do this, but I was under the false impression that I could have even an occasional drink and still fix my health. In MY case, there was no way I was ever going to get better, and indeed I've seen many articles posted on this site talking about how dangerous alcohol is to health, especially to hormone balance and the liver, two very important points in Ray Peat's work. Since I've been going to AA, which was only 40 days ago, I have lost 10 pounds of fat, and I have found that the strategies I was trying to employ before are immensely more effective without the ever destructive presence of alcohol in my body. I also have seen a COMPLETE reversal of insomnia, falling asleep at any time I go to bed and sleeping the entire night, and waking up refreshed. Terribly I have had a varicocele, which is varicose vein like condition in one or both testes, which would get frighteningly worse while drinking. Since I have stopped it is mostly disappeared, only reappearing after I have been standing or walking for a period of time, and is significantly less tender than it used to be. Taking progesterone and vitamin E seems to be drastically healing it, and I am relieved that I will not have to have surgery to fix it.
Part of my recovery is also probably do to the point that Ray Peat brings up often about enrichment and stimulating activities. Going to AA is very social and supportive, and active, and I have made a lot of emotional connections with like-minded people. I feel like this intense social interactivity is giving me that part of the Ray Peat science that I was not able to have before, and is also imparting a great deal of physical healing. Of course anyone can find this in many different ways, for me, being an introvert and isolated, has been more fulfilling than anything I've done in the last few years.
Anyway, I wanted to write this so that if anyone on the forum is suffering health conditions and has a nagging feeling that even the occasional drink is making it worse. IT PROBABLY IS. and please don't hesitate to stop and if you can't, AA is a really fun and wonderful place to get help.
I have recently come to the realization that I am an alcoholic. This is not really news to me, as I have been a heavy drinker for ten plus years. As my health got worse and worse I did more research and learning into the specific symptoms of my condition, all the while having this inclination that even an occasional drink was in the least not helping my condition and at the worst, causing it. My health was so bad that even taking ONE drink a week would cause me to have severe shortness of breath that was rather frightening, and even then I would still drink. This is why I had to go Alcoholics Anonymous, because I could not stop on my own and many areas of my life were suffering because of the fallout of alcohol use.
My point is not to suggest anyone else need do this, but I was under the false impression that I could have even an occasional drink and still fix my health. In MY case, there was no way I was ever going to get better, and indeed I've seen many articles posted on this site talking about how dangerous alcohol is to health, especially to hormone balance and the liver, two very important points in Ray Peat's work. Since I've been going to AA, which was only 40 days ago, I have lost 10 pounds of fat, and I have found that the strategies I was trying to employ before are immensely more effective without the ever destructive presence of alcohol in my body. I also have seen a COMPLETE reversal of insomnia, falling asleep at any time I go to bed and sleeping the entire night, and waking up refreshed. Terribly I have had a varicocele, which is varicose vein like condition in one or both testes, which would get frighteningly worse while drinking. Since I have stopped it is mostly disappeared, only reappearing after I have been standing or walking for a period of time, and is significantly less tender than it used to be. Taking progesterone and vitamin E seems to be drastically healing it, and I am relieved that I will not have to have surgery to fix it.
Part of my recovery is also probably do to the point that Ray Peat brings up often about enrichment and stimulating activities. Going to AA is very social and supportive, and active, and I have made a lot of emotional connections with like-minded people. I feel like this intense social interactivity is giving me that part of the Ray Peat science that I was not able to have before, and is also imparting a great deal of physical healing. Of course anyone can find this in many different ways, for me, being an introvert and isolated, has been more fulfilling than anything I've done in the last few years.
Anyway, I wanted to write this so that if anyone on the forum is suffering health conditions and has a nagging feeling that even the occasional drink is making it worse. IT PROBABLY IS. and please don't hesitate to stop and if you can't, AA is a really fun and wonderful place to get help.