Cannabis or Alcohol, Which is Worse?

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Hey, what's going on, everybody.

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Welcome back to the elemental oven show.

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Thank you for tuning in today to this wellness Wednesday episode, this is a

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full length episode as compared to my Monday episodes, which are mini episodes.

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So today is going to be full length and it's going to be on a topic that

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is highly debated, highly opinionated, and something that I have been

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wanting to cover for a long time.

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And also just do the research on, uh, for myself personally.

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And that is what is better.

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Or you could even say what's worse.

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Cannabis or alcohol.

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So like I said, this is a pretty hot topic and it's something that a lot of people

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have questioned and wondered about or, you know, had very strong opinions on.

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And so today I am going to share with you essentially my opinion on which one

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is better or worse for you, because I am not a medical professional, so I can

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not make any medical claims and also.

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Uh, I believe that you should make your own choices.

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I'm not going to really try to make you do one or the other.

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Uh, this is just going to be information for you with my opinion,

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after looking at the research and the data, which I will share some

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of with you today, but essentially this is really just going to be me.

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Giving my opinion on the research that I've done and

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what I think is the better one.

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But nonetheless, I think you're going to find this very valuable

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and helpful for a lot of people who have been debating this as well.

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So.

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For this episode, I first off just wanted to kind of start off in describing.

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What.

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You would see commonly with alcohol consumption or cannabis consumption.

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So obviously a lot of people have experience in consuming both of these.

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So this is going to be just me kind of.

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You know, covering something you might already know, but there's also a lot

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of people who do not have experience with, uh, both of these items.

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So this is, uh, will also be for them.

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So in terms of alcohol,

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You know, a lot of the things that I commonly see with, uh,

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alcohol consumption, both with myself and with other people.

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Is, you know, it kind of starts off really nice where you start to get that little

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warmness, you know, you're starting to get a little buzzed and you get a little

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bit more social, you know, a little social lubricant going, you might talk to more

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people that you wouldn't normally talk to.

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You might dance around a little bit more, uh, you know, just

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starting to get loosened up.

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Right.

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However that quickly.

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And kind of change.

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And so I'm like, I'm going to cover a lot of the downsides of

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alcohol as I will with cannabis, but definitely one of the downsides.

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And remember, these are generalizations.

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This is not for everybody, but in general, you tend to see that people are.

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More likely or prone to get into a fight, whether that's

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verbal or actually physical.

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And this is just simply because your emotions and mood can sway

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from one side to the other.

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Pretty radically and easily.

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And then you're more likely to act on those emotions, which

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is never really a good thing.

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Uh, so you tend to see definitely I had seen, um, a lot more people fight when

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they are intoxicated through alcohol.

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Um, like I said, yes, we become more sociable as well.

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Um, but we also get to a point where, you know, and like I said,

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not with everybody, but a lot of people tend to over consume alcohol.

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So there's a point where you kind of don't want the feeling

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of alcohol to wear, uh, go away.

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So you continue consuming more and more and more.

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And just getting to a point where, um, you know, you can

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actually get to a blackout or.

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Uh, alcohol poisoning.

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Uh, throwing up.

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You know, just.

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Nothing really good.

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And that simply just is because, you know, it's, it's hard to really stop

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yourself once you get going on that roll.

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So you can get to a point where you start consuming more than you really should.

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Uh, you're likely or more likely to do things that you are

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going to regret the next day.

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Uh, this is once again, just because you're more, I guess, for lack of better

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word usage, you're just down to do things, you know, like, yeah, I'll go do that.

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Or you.

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It's like, we just, all of a sudden get this little effort in

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our system, you know, like you're just down to go do whatever.

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So, uh, that tends to lead to us, making poor decisions that are things

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that we will grant the following day.

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And one of the things that is worse for me personally, and a reason why I

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do not drink large amounts of alcohol, or if I do, it's a very, very rare.

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And that is the hangover.

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I hate the hangover.

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I get terrible hangovers.

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And you know, that is one of the main reasons why I think a lot of people

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don't drink more than they would.

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Right.

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Um, Yeah, it's just simply the hangover.

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The hangovers are terrible.

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Like I said, I get hurt, terrible headaches, uh, throwing up, you know,

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just feeling like not good at all.

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Just wanting to be in bed and waste the day away.

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So those are a lot of the downsides of what you'll see with alcohol.

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And one thing that I felt really kind of sums alcohol up really

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well, and this is coming from one of my friends, Jacob Soldani.

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Tanya, he's also a health and wellness practitioner.

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Uh, I've had him on the show on a previous episode.

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And he simply just stated that.

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With alcohol, you are always just one moment away from

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having a really terrible time.

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And when he said that at first he didn't really click.

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But then as I kind of thought about it a little bit more, I realized like

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he's absolutely right with alcohol being that your emotions are so easily

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swayed from one way to the other.

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You know, you could be having the best time of your life having a great night.

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And then all of a sudden something could happen.

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Someone says something the wrong way, or, you know, it says the

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wrong thing or whatever it may be.

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And all of a sudden you are having the worst night possible.

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I've seen this happen with so many people.

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I've seen it happen to myself.

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It is not fun.

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And it is really.

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You know,

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It's really just a bummer because you know, like that's another thing why I

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don't like consuming too much alcohol or even, you know, being in a, in a group

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with a bunch of people consuming too much.

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Alcohol is just because you just never know when it's going

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to go the wrong direction.

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Um, so yeah, those are definitely some of the downsides of alcohol.

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These are obviously firsthand experiences as well as some of them.

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Uh, you can find statistics on as well.

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And then in terms of cannabis, so cannabis, obviously a

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quite a different item.

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Uh, when comparing it to alcohol, but cannabis.

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And once again, these are gonna be generalizations.

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But cannabis can make you definitely a little bit more lazy.

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So in terms of consuming,

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Uh, cannabis compared to alcohol, alcohol is definitely going to make you want

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to kind of move around and do more, whereas with cannabis, not all the time,

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but with a lot of people, they like to kind of just consume it and then chill

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out and relax maybe on the couch or.

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You know, something that doesn't require a lot of physical exercise and movement.

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Uh, it also can tend to make you less present in conversations and interactions.

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And this is just simply because your mind is working in a different manner and

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it's harder to stay on just one topic.

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You know, your mind kind of will jump or forget what you were talking about.

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And so it's much more difficult to.

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Carry out a really.

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You know, thoughtful conversation or deep conversation.

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And like I said, there's some people that are.

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Able to compose themselves really well with, uh, cannabis, but there's

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also a lot of people who are not able to compose themselves very well.

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And yeah, their conversations can be pretty, um, all over the place.

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So that's another thing.

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You also have, um, the fact that people will be more likely to kind of

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just sit out on the sideline of life.

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And what I mean by that is just, you know, When you're consuming

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cannabis, you're a little bit less.

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Motivated to go out and do things.

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And.

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Meet people talk to people, interact, create new connections.

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So you're kind of just a little bit more on the sideline.

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You're just kind of taking it easy, just observing and watching things happen.

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I think a lot of people can relate to this.

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For example, if you were at a party.

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You can typically see.

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Um, majority of the people consuming alcohol and they're all interacting

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and doing whatever they're doing, but then you usually have this couch or

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patio or corner or something where you have the people who are smoking.

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And they're kind of just in their own little area doing their own thing.

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You know, not really trying to interact.

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So, uh, this can definitely play a role for people who consume

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cannabis on a daily basis or.

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All all the time throughout the day.

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Um, they might not notice it very much because they're so used to simply

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just consuming cannabis all the time.

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But I do feel that it really does kind of lead to people, uh, missing out on.

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You know, certain aspects of life.

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So sitting out on the sideline.

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Also, like I said, less sociable, uh, when you're at a party, you can always

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see that little group and maybe they're sociable amongst each other, but they

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definitely are not really interacting with the entire group or party.

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And.

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There's a portion of cannabis consumption.

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That is very interesting because you can look at this

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as both a bad or a good thing.

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And that is simply that with cannabis, you.

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Kind of don't really have you.

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You know what I, you know, like a quote-unquote hangover, right?

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So with cannabis, you can have, um, maybe some grogginess in the morning or.

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Uh, maybe a diff difficulty recalling certain memories right away, or

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just being on, you know, being on top of your game, like really.

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Up and ready to go.

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Maybe it takes you a little bit longer to wake up in the morning.

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And so it's a very, very subtle.

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So with alcohol, obviously, if you have a hangover it's in your face,

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I mean, if you try to go to work the next day, it's going to be terrible.

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You're going to be feeling nauseous and like throwing up, you

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might have a terrible headache.

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You probably reek of alcohol.

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You're sweating it out.

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So, yeah, it's just not fun.

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Whereas with cannabis, you can consume cannabis.

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And then go to work the next day and you'll be fine.

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You know, you can go and, and function like nothing really happened.

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Right.

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And the reason I say, you know, obviously that sounds like a good thing.

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Like, oh, okay, cool.

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You know, you can consume it and then go function later the next day.

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No problem at all.

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But the thing is, is since it's so subtle, a lot of the times, I think

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it's harder for us to recognize, um, when cannabis is really affecting

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us, you know, uh, in our lives.

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And.

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Kind of also keeps you consuming more of it in a way, because with

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alcohol, obviously when you have a hangover, it's terrible, you kind of

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don't want to drink for a few days.

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Hopefully.

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Um, maybe even longer and, you know, you can't really just go out on a weekday

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and get super hammered if you have to be at next, uh, at work the next day.

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So, you know, it kind of keeps you limited in some degree, however,

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with cannabis, that's not the.

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You know, not the result.

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You can pretty much just consume it and then go to work the next day.

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No problem at all.

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So, The only thing is, like I said, if you're consuming cannabis constantly

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and you're not having this kind of come down, hang over, whatever.

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Well being that it's so subtle over time, I think it starts to take its toll on you.

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And then it finally gets to this point where you would have to

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actually stop consuming cannabis for a couple of weeks to maybe a month.

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Uh, and really just stop taking it completely and then pay attention

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to the subtle differences.

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So, like I said, it's probably going to be something with.

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You know, being able to get up in the morning, easier.

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If you have to wake up really early, like you don't have to peel

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yourself off the bed, you can simply just wake up and be ready to go.

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Um,

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You know, you're probably more on top of it in the morning, your thoughts

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are more collected and in order, and you're able to get ready faster.

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You know, there's not really this moment where you're kind of just trying to

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wake up and get your thoughts together.

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So, like I said, it's much more subtle, but this can be a good or a bad thing.

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So that's essentially.

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What you will notice with these two substances or these items?

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Um, obviously if you have.

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You know, experience with either alcohol or cannabis, then you know

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exactly what I'm talking about.

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Or maybe you don't maybe have a different experience.

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Um, But nonetheless, these are generalizations.

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So.

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Before I even get in deeper to both of these items.

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I really wanted to just note that neither of these hard going to be good for you.

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So don't think that at the end of this episode, I'm going to be telling you

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to go out and drink more alcohol or.

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Uh, consume more cannabis.

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Okay.

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Cause I'm not, neither of these are good for you.

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Um, on that note.

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You know, alcohol is literally a poison for the body.

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Like not a joke at all.

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It is an actual poison for the body.

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So alcohol or ethanol, right?

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It's actually labeled as a group, one carcinogen by the us department

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of health and human services, along with tobacco smoke and as Bestos.

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Okay.

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So it's definitely not.

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A health food supplement, drink, whatever it is in no way, shape or form

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going to be considered healthy for you.

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Okay.

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And by the way, for those of you who do not know what a carcinogen is, it is

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defined as a substance that is capable of causing cancer in living tissue.

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So.

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Literally terrible for you, um, can increase rates of breast cancer

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and all these different things.

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So.

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Definitely not good for you.

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As with cannabis.

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And more specifically, you know, we're talking about the, uh, component THC.

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Uh, which causes the, you know, Quote, unquote, high effect of cannabis.

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When you smoke it for one, it is harmful for the lungs, for

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the esophagus, for the mouth.

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It is not good to consume a burnt substance, obviously.

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And it will also decrease blood flow to the brain, which is.

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Not something you want.

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Obviously we want as much.

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Uh, blood flow as we can get to the brain at all times.

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And it can also cause developmental problems in the brain when

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consumed at a young age.

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So, like I said, neither of these are going to be what I consider

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a health product in any way.

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And, um, I understand that, you know, there are blues zones

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that consume moderate amounts of alcohol, and I believe.

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Personally, that's more something to do with, uh, just the fact that it brings

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community together as opposed to actually having beneficial qualities to it.

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And then with cannabis as well, you know, just.

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Um, I understand that there is CBD, CBG, CBN, all these other

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components, and those are awesome.

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I think that more research should be done on those.

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And, um, you know, I know people find some benefit with THC as

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well, and that's totally fine.

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Like I said,

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This is not me telling you what to do, but just simply understand that

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I do not label either of these.

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As a healthy.

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Uh, product for you.

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So just wanted to really lay that out first, but now let's go ahead

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and kind of jump into alcohol limit a little bit more, um, in terms

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of what it's doing in the body.

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So.

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When you consume alcohol specifically in the brain, it's going to interfere

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with the brain's communication pathways, which can change your mood

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behavior and make it harder to think clearly and move with coordination.

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Hence slurred speech and, uh, stumbling around right.

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Now in terms of the liver, many people already know that alcohol

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is harmful, harmful to the liver.

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Um, and this is simply because.

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Your liver is the organ that is processing the alcohol that's entering your body.

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Right.

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It's processing literally this poison.

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So your liver is the one that's going to take the hit on it because it's the

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one that's going to have to process it.

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So liver is taking a huge hit.

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That's not on, that's not on top of if you're consuming, you know, a very sugary

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drink along with it, like a cocktail, that's going to have a lot of sugar.

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That's also going to take a hit on the liver.

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And then, you know, the following day, if you're taking any pain

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medications or whatever, that's also going to be messing with the liver.

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So the liver is just overall taking a really huge blow.

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And with, uh, with time over consumption of alcohol can lead to things like

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fatty liver, alcoholic, hepatitis fibrosis, and cancer of the liver.

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I'm not going to go any deeper on alcohol.

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And I'm also not going to go super deep in terms of cannabis

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and its effects in the body.

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However, if you want to hear more on the effects of alcohol in the body,

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Uh, Andrew Huberman, who is the founder and host of Herberman lab, which is a,

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another health and wellness podcast.

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Uh, he did an episode on alcohol.

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It's a facts, what it's doing in the body.

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All of that.

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It's an awesome episode.

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It's pretty lengthy and it's very.

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I would say lecture style for the most part, because he is obviously a

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professor of, I believe neuro biology.

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Um, I'm not a hundred percent sure on that.

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Something with the brain, so super smart guy, and he really

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goes into what's happening.

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So if you want to hear more on that, absolutely.

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Go ahead and check that out.

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Maybe I'll even link it in the show notes as well.

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Just so you can go ahead and check that out as well.

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But yeah, like I said, I'm not going to really be getting into

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that because I'm specifically just comparing these two items.

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So moving on now to cannabis.

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Uh, when you consume cannabis.

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Mostly from what I've seen.

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And, um, I would say is just in general, uh, people tend to consume

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cannabis through smoking it.

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So when you smoke cannabis, obviously this is going to be causing a

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lot of problems for the lungs.

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And, uh, when you do smoke cannabis, the THC will act on specific

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brain cell receptors in the brain.

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And give you a feeling of being high so you can expect, uh, you know,

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experiencing altered moods, altered sense of time, impaired body movement,

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impaired memory, and even difficulty with thinking or problem solving.

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Um, once again, if you have experience with cannabis, then you can already kind

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of understand that, but essentially that is what's going on when you're consuming.

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Uh, marijuana or THC, and that is both through either smoking or eating it,

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whatever way you ingest it, essentially.

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So both of those are messing kind of with the brain and causing

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you to just essentially feel an altered or different state.

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So now let's go ahead and jump in to the harmful effects of

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both alcohol and with cannabis.

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So starting with off with alcohol, I think we already know a lot of the common

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issues, but nonetheless, I will still go ahead and list off, uh, just a few of

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the issues that can be linked to alcohol.

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So for example,

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You can have a lot of heart problems such as cardiomyopathy.

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Uh, Uh, re arrhythmias, sorry.

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I'm probably saying this wrong.

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I believe that's when your heartbeat is irregular arrhythmias.

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Uh, stroke and high blood pressure.

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You can have liver problems.

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Like I stated earlier, fatty liver disease, alcoholic, hepatitis

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fibrosis, cirrhosis, and you can also have pancreatitis.

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You can have cancer of the liver.

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You can have a head cancers such as the oral cancer.

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Uh, larynx pharynx, you can also have colorectal cancer.

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You can have breast cancer, which affects one in eight women in the

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U S is a very high percentage.

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A lot of people obviously are going through this, and it's very sad,

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uh, specifically women, sorry.

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And they actually did a study and found that women who had one drink per day.

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Had a five to 9% increased chance of developing breast cancer as compared

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to women who do not drink at all.

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If you listen to the Herberman lab podcast as well, he goes over a

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study and he breaks it down into the amount of grams of alcohol.

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I believe that you consume and how that relates in terms of.

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Being more susceptible to developing breast cancer.

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And the numbers are actually quite high.

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They're higher than the ones that I provided.

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So just overall, like really not a good thing.

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There's a really.

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A clear link here with breast cancer and alcohol.

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So be very wary in terms of that.

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And on top of that, alcohol will lower your immune system and make it harder

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for your body to fight off infections.

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Like I said, you are literally ingesting a poison.

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So now moving on to cannabis.

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I want to make it clear that with cannabis, since it is not legal in all the

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states of the United States, and obviously alcohol is an alcohol is just generally,

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um, More widely used around the world.

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Uh, there is less research to be had on cannabis and therefore in the future, we

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will begin to know more and the effects that cannabis has on the body, especially

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in longterm use, because obviously we haven't been studying it very long.

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So we can expect to see more and more research coming out on this.

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Uh, but nonetheless with what we already have, we can see that.

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Uh, cannabis can restrict or actually not can, but it does

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restrict blood flow to the brain.

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So there are studies being done at the amen clinic in which

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they've found that marijuana.

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Uh, use reduces blood flow to the brain and very specifically

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to the right hippocampus, which deals with memory formation.

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This is the area of the brain that is severely affected in people

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who have all Alzheimer's disease.

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So.

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Definitely.

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You know, eyes, we already know it messes with the memory and brain and

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the blood flow, all this, but very specifically, this is crazy to me to

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see just this clear connection between.

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You know, people who are, who have Alzheimer's.

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And then just the fact that, you know, this blood flow is being restricted

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to that specific area of the brain.

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That kind of scares me a little bit personally.

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So, uh, definitely we need to be very mindful of that.

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Like I said, there's going to be much more research coming out on what

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the real effects are in the brain and also in the rest of the body.

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Uh, there's also, as we know.

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Very many breathing problems that can occur.

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If you are smoking.

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Uh, cannabis.

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So.

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If you are smoking cannabis.

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You know, like I said, we still need more research on this, but essentially

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you are consuming, you know, a burning object, which is just not going to be

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good for the lungs and very likely is going to cause, or be related to causing.

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Lung cancer, probably oral cancer as well.

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And esophagus cancer.

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Uh, as I said, more research does need to be done, but.

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As we know if you are smoking anything, it's going to have

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similar effects like that.

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It can also cause phlegm, coughing and reduced respiratory performance.

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I have definitely seen this.

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Um, I've seen people who were on sports teams with me, who definitely.

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Um, you know, consumed a lot of cannabis, specifically smoking it.

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Uh, not all of them, but there were some who you could just tell.

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They seemed a little bit more winded than most people.

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Uh, and also in terms of smoking tobacco as well, it can be the same thing.

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You also have increased heart rates.

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So this can lead to people.

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Um, oh, sorry.

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This can lead to issues for people.

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People.

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Who have heart problems and can lead to higher, a higher chance of a heart attack.

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So, um, you're increasing your heart rate and for people who do have issues with

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their heart, this is something you do want to be mindful of because it is increasing

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your heart rate and putting a little bit more of a stress and strain on there.

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In terms of pregnancy.

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Um, this is, you know, also with alcohol.

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Um, if you are pregnant, you should not be consuming alcohol or marijuana.

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Um, neither of them are going to serve benefit to the, the fetus,

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uh, That baby growing inside of you.

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Um, you know, literally we should be trying to give it all the upper

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hands that we can possibly give it.

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And these are not going to do any of that for you.

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Specifically with a cannabis use.

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During pregnancy it's been linked to lower birth.

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W.

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Uh, lower birth weights.

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And brain and behavioral problems for the baby.

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So definitely not a good thing.

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There's also something that has been found here recently, or my head

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might have, it's probably been found.

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A while back, but people are really noticing it now.

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And it's a.

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Popular topic at the moment, which is nausea and vomiting.

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Uh, which is cannabinoid.

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Hyper Mrs.

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Syndrome.

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So people who have been consuming cannabis for a long period of time can

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actually start to develop this serious sense of nausea and even vomiting.

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Uh, due to cannabis consumption.

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And essentially the only way to get rid of it is to stop consuming cannabis.

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And so yeah, if you are experiencing that, It would be a good idea

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to lay off of the cannabis.

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And in terms of your IQ levels, they have found that people who started

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smoking as a teenager, Or heavily during their teenage years, there was

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an average of eight IQ points lost.

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So remember, the key point here is it's people who were

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consuming it as a teenager, and then also into their later years.

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And this just simply did not allow the brain to properly develop in the

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areas that it was needing to develop.

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Uh, more research will be coming out on this, like I said, so we will get

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better ideas and better information on the effects of cannabis with

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the body and specifically with the brain, because that seems to be one

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of the main areas that is affected.

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However, that is where I'm going to stop in terms of explaining

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the harmful effects of, uh, both alcohol and cannabis on the body.

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Now let's kind of move in to more of this statistics, which is actually pretty much

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just going to be statistics on alcohol, because like I said, with cannabis,

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there's just not very much research.

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I did look around and I found a few numbers here and there,

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but none of them really seemed.

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Super legit or something that I would actually want to include

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in stand behind those numbers on.

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I do try to find very, very, uh, reliable sources when I'm

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using them on my show here.

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And I just didn't feel that there were really any that were super reliable.

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So I'm not able to really include too many of them on here.

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But nonetheless, let's talk about some of the.

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Uh, statistics in terms of alcohol.

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So.

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According to the CVC, more than 140,000 people die each year in the

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us due to excessive alcohol use.

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Pretty crazy.

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Uh, really sad actually.

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To hear that number and.

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Yeah, it's just really sad.

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You know, I think there's so many people who know someone

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who's been affected by alcohol.

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Um, lost a loved one, that Maybe drunk driving or over usage of

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alcohol, whatever it may be.

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Uh, so that's a really a heavy number to here.

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You also have in 2020 11,654 people, sorry, 11,654 people died from

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alcohol impaired driving traffic.

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Uh, deaths.

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So once again, Uh, driving under the influence.

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Definitely not a good idea.

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Uh, there's also been a pretty clear connection between domestic violence

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and alcohol consumption with the BBC publishing an article, which stated

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that men who were dependent on alcohol.

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And then I want to very specifically.

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Uh, state this, it wasn't just alcohol, but people who were men who

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were dependent on alcohol or drugs.

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Okay.

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So this is not just alcohol.

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There is other usage

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But they were six to seven times more likely to be involved in domestic abuse.

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So once again, that kind of comes back to the whole violence thing as well.

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Um, and your night being one moment away from being a really bad night.

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So, uh, yeah, I just felt that that was a really good thing to include in here.

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And like I said, there's really no statistics on.

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Cannabis that I felt were worth putting in here or reliable enough to put in here.

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But on that note, There's definitely, in my opinion, less people crashing

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due to driving and consuming cannabis.

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And in terms of overdosing on cannabis, it I mean, I don't know if there's

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even, actually, I couldn't find any statistics on people actually being

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clinically diagnosed as overdosed on cannabis, you know, and, and dying

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Um, but it is definitely, definitely very, very difficult to do.

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Uh, people will, you know, sometimes overdo it with cannabis in terms

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of eating it because maybe there's a delayed effect and it's, um, you

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know, taking a long time to feel those effects and they consume more of it.

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Whereas with smoking it, you will obviously just feel the effects

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much quicker because it's going straight into the bloodstream.

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But on Definitely from what it looks like.

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There are much, much fewer deaths from alcohol consumption and, you know, kind

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of just making really bad decisions.

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And in terms of, you know, domestic violence, all of that.

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Uh, definitely seems like it is much, much lower.

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Which is going to lead me to say,

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My final answer, which I think you guys probably can already draw the

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conclusion to But my conclusion is going to be that if I had to choose

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one or the other, in terms of being.

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You know, Less worse for you, I guess is what I'll say.

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I would probably go with cannabis.

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And the simple reason I am choosing that is just mainly because if you

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look at all of the different deaths,

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That happened every single year from.

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From consuming alcohol, which I understand there are not statistics on cannabis

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But nonetheless, from what I could see.

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It definitely seems that less people are being killed from cannabis.

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And in terms of consuming cannabis, Yes, it has.

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You know, harmful effects to the body, especially harmful effects

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in the long-term use, but in smaller, you know, usage like.

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Let's say you, um, only smoke a few times a year and you know, just that one time.

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Uh, like, let's say maybe you smoke even just once a month or something like that.

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If you look at someone who smokes one time a month, compared to a person who

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goes out and just get super hammered one time a month, the recovery rate

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the effects on the body, all of that.

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Just definitely seems like alcohol is much, much harsher on the body.

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And it seems like you're probably going to be much more likely to make bad

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decisions in terms of consuming alcohol.

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So that is why, in my opinion, I am definitely going to say that cannabis is

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going to be less harmful for the body.

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Uh, in terms of not dying and also just, uh, you know, immediate,

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uh, effects on the body.

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Um, you know, with alcohol, like I said, you can have one night

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of drinking and have some pretty serious aftermath effects from it.

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So that is why I'm going with cannabis.

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However, I would like to definitely restate that over consumption

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of either of these two items is going to be bad for the body.

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If you, for example, drink at least once a day or consume cannabis once

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a day, you're introducing this item to the body daily, which is going

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to cause the greatest effects.

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In the short-term and in the longterm.

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And if you actually look at it from the perspective of taking supplements or

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herbs, if you want to actually see the results of these herbs or supplements,

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you need to take them daily to really have a strong effect on the body.

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Therefore, if you were consuming either of these on a daily basis, or even like

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five days out of the week, I highly recommend lowering your intake levels.

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You'll feel better when you do this.

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Uh, even if the change is just subtle, because as I stated with

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cannabis, it might be quite settled.

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But for example, people who stop drinking tend to have a phase where they actually.

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Have increased levels of anxiety, increased levels of

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stress, or even irritableness.

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But this will eventually pass and you will feel much better in

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terms of cannabis consumption.

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Maybe you will be more irritable.

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Um, maybe even levels of anxiety.

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I'm not sure, like I said, a lot of the research still needs to come out, but.

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We definitely know that people who are alcoholics or heavily consume alcohol,

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the effects of coming down from alcohol can be very, very harsh and heavy.

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You know, they can have, um, cold sweats.

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They can have high levels of anxiety, low, like suppress

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levels of, of hunger basically.

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And it's just a really sad thing to see someone go through

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it's it's not fun at all.

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And so, yeah, definitely.

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Uh, if you were consuming.

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Over consuming is what I would consider, you know, consuming once a day out.

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Like every single day out of the week, even five days out of the week, I would

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personally consider over-consuming.

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Although if you look at a lot of the stats, that is not what

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the consider over consumption.

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They actually consider with alcohol.

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I believe it was two drinks a day per week.

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Yeah.

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So like, you know, 14 drinks in a week, which to me is quite a lot personally.

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I don't really, um, I actually drink very, very occasionally.

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Uh, so to me that was a lot, but I actually would even go further and

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say that if you are consuming five or four times a week, either cannabis or

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alcohol, you should still reduce that, um, best would be to not have it at all.

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Um, but nonetheless, if you are going to consume it, then go

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ahead and try to definitely do it in smaller amounts and less.

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Less times out of them the week or the month.

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Um, trying to really reduce that would be super, super beneficial.

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And in terms of consuming either alcohol or cannabis, I wanted

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to also provide you with some.

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You know, supplements and things that you can do to kind of negate those effects.

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Obviously you're not going to negate them completely, but something that

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can help you deal with either the aftermath or just kinda, you know,

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help your health stay on track.

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So.

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In terms of alcohol consumption.

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If you're going to go consume alcohol, let's say you're going out one night and

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you're going to have some drinks with friends, which by the way, like I said,

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both of these, if you are going to do them, try to do them in a social setting

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so that you can enjoy community and at least make that worth the time and, uh,

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kinda add some benefit to it at least.

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But if you are going to go out and drink and you know, you're going to have 1,

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2, 3, 4, whatever, how many drinks.

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Then it would be a great idea to also take glutathione, which is going to be really,

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really good and beneficial for your liver.

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Chlorella and spirulina.

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Or, you know, chlorella or spirulina, both of them are going to be really,

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really high in chlorophyll with chlorella being specifically high in chlorophyll.

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And very, very detoxifying for the blood.

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It's able to remove toxins, heavy metals, uh, things of that nature.

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So it can really, really benefit you.

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I've actually interviewed, um, Katherine Arnstein who is

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the founder of energy bits.

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Which is a company that specializes in spirulina and chlorella.

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And she stated that if you were to take, I forgot how many tablets of her chlorella.

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Um, but during a night of drinking that you would become stone cold,

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sober in an hour and a half.

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I have not tested that theory.

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So I don't know if that's true or not, but nonetheless, I still take chlorella

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and spirulina cause there's some pretty convincing evidence out there that

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they do help and benefit the body.

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Especially during a night of drinking.

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Also on that note, I have.

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Her energy bits product right here.

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She has been kind enough to provide all of the elemental oven listeners with

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a 20% discount on the entire order.

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If you use code elemental at checkout, I will go ahead and link them in

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the show notes because honestly, chlorella and spirulina are amazing.

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And if you have time, please go listen to that episode.

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You're going to have your mind blown.

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Um, these are incredible, incredible little allergies and I take them

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daily I'm feeling awesome from taking them so highly, highly recommend.

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And if you're going to go on a night of drinking, definitely take some of them.

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So gludethyon.

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Chlorella or spirulina or both.

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Activated charcoal, because that can also bind to toxins and help remove.

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The alcohol and pass it through your body so that it doesn't linger around

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and create basically the hangover.

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Um, it's going to definitely benefit you there and also drink

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something with electrolytes.

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So whether this be, you know, coconut water or, um, like element water, which

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is a little packet, um, it's basically like salts pretty much, but it doesn't

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have any sugar in it, which is key for me.

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I definitely try to avoid the sugar anytime I can.

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So element it's L.

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L M N T they're really, really good.

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Um, electrolyte little packet to add into your water.

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I really enjoyed the flavor of those as well.

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So I take Pretty often as well, not just for drinking, but very, very beneficial

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if you are going to be drinking.

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And then the obvious answer of all is drink water.

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If you are out drinking alcohol, then definitely try to put some water in

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between those drinks or finish off the night with a ton of water and try to

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really flush out the system in the body.

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So those are going to be your go tos for alcohol.

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And then in terms of cannabis, if you're a concerned.

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Uh, consuming cannabis, especially if you're, uh,

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consuming cannabis via smoking.

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Then I would highly recommend taking some mullion leaf or marshmallow leaf.

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Typically they come in, um, Teabags.

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So you can be like a T or I think they even have them in capsules,

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maybe even tinctures, but nonetheless, they are really good for the

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lungs and health of the lungs.

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So if you're smoking, it'd be a really good idea to take some of that.

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And then in terms for the brain, because obviously we're slowing the blood flow.

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Uh, Gingko biloba for blood flow to the brain is going to be incredible.

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Also, it's just really good for brain health.

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And by the way, taking these in general for alcohol cannabis, whatever is

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just going to be beneficial as well.

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So,

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Uh, just wanted to state that, but yeah, Gingko biloba is going

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to be incredible for the brain increasing blood flow to the brain.

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Lion's mane mushroom.

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For brain health and just.

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Yeah, honestly, brain health to the max lion's mane is my favorite

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nootropic of anything out there.

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Uh, I try to take that as often as possible.

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It's my favorite functional mushroom, but also in general, just taking functional

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mushrooms is incredible for you.

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So add that to the list as well.

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So like reishi, chaga, cordyceps, lion's

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Shataki my tocky.

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Any of those?

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Moving on.

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Um, also chlorella and spirulina will be very, very beneficial if you

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are, uh, consuming cannabis as well.

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Like I said, chlorella is really, really good at removing toxins and spirulina

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is really, really great at boosting the health of your mitochondria.

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So super, super important to be taking those.

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And then the last one is nitric oxide.

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And the reason I put nitric oxide here, and this is actually

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more of an opinion more than it.

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I actually have, um, you know, medical backing on this, but

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nitric oxide increases blood flow throughout the entire body.

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And obviously for restricting blood flow to the brain, then it's probably a good

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idea that we have some nitric oxide.

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Uh, to increase blood flow to the brain.

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So maybe the day after, or even during, um, you know, they say

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beats have high levels of nitric oxide, but honestly, that.

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Cheapest and best way to increase nitric oxide in the body.

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Is actually just doing a humming breath work, which I have in

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my Uh, breath work course.

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But essentially when you hum you are going to release like three

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times the normal amount of nitric oxide into the bloodstream.

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Um, and yeah, so increasing blood flow to the entire body.

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So that would be something else you could do is just simply do some

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humming breath work or eat some beets.

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And specifically if you're eating beets to make sure that you are

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chewing the B12, because I've heard that that is the main time in which

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the nitric oxide is released and best absorbed by the body is in the mouth.

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So make sure that you are chewing up your beats really well.

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And that's going to do it.

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That's going to do it for today's episode.

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So the winner, or I guess you could call it winner, but I would just

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say the least worst item would be cannabis in comparison to alcohol.

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Once again, that is my personal opinion.

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That is not a

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You know, factor, anything like that.

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And it's just simply my opinion.

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Um, I know I'm not here to tell you what to do with this whole podcast in general.

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I'm not here to, you know, dictate your life or tell you this is

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bad or that's good or whatever.

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I'm just here to provide you with information, things that

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have worked for me personally.

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And give you the tools and the information to make the best educated

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decision that you possibly can for your life and find what fits you best.

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Remember, I understand that we live in a modern world and you know, not

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going out to drink might mean that you're going to miss out on some

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very valuable time with friends.

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And if that's the case, I understand why you would want to go and keep

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up that community time with them.

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Uh, and if you are, then please take these supplements, you know, and,

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um, just try to limit the amount that you're drinking, or maybe even

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try to just drink non-alcoholic drinks when you're out with them.

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That way you can still enjoy their company.

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Uh, but like I said, I understand that we live in a modern world.

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That's why I always try to stick by the 80, 20 rule, 80% of the time, you know,

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be on your health game, 20% of the time, allow yourself some slack and enjoy.

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And that's going to do it for today's episode.

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I hope you all enjoyed.

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I know that was a long winded answer to get to the winner of

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who, which one is least worse.

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Um, but yeah, that is.

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My opinion on that, and I hope you all enjoyed and found a lot

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of benefit in this whole episode.

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Which if you did find benefit in this episode, please go ahead and share

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this episode with a family friend loved one or just anyone who, uh,

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could benefit from this information.

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It goes really far in helping me spread the word of this podcast

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and, um, you know, helping others to also take control of their health.

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And get back to a natural state of health and being.

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So, yeah, that would go so far for me.

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Be in touch with me.

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Let me know if you liked this episode or if you like this show,

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or if there's a topic you want me to cover in the future, I really.

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Highly appreciate any feedback.

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And yeah, just love connecting with all of you.

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So thank you very much for tuning in.

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It means the world to me.

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I really appreciate all of you and I'm so happy to be able to

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share this information with all of

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Please have an amazing rest of your day.

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And you already know the motto of the show.

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It is do everything with good intentions and connect to your elements.

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Much.

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Love to everybody.