The Top Reasons Why Regular Alcohol Consumption Is Holding You Back And What To Do About It With Ruari Fairbairns

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Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and AquaTru. Alcohol is often featured prominently in celebrations and social gatherings, fostering connections. However, we know that regular alcohol consumption can significantly affect both our physical and mental well-being. Our guest today is poised to explore society's relationship with alcohol, broaden our perspectives on the possibilities of a sober curious lifestyle, and show us what true connections can look like. Today, on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru and Ruari Fairbairns delve into the impact of regular alcohol consumption, its societal significance, and the transformative effects of prioritizing sobriety. Ruari candidly shares his journey with alcohol, childhood traumas, and the genesis of his subscription-based community. Tune in for insightful inspiration to reassess your relationship with alcohol and explore what lies beyond. Ruari Fairbairns is the founder and CEO of OYNB (One Year No Beer) and a leading figure in the health and well-being space. He was awarded Great British Entrepreneur of the Year for Scotland and Northern Ireland 2020, and OYNB was also named The Spectator’s Economic Innovator of the Year in the UK. Known for his passionate advocacy for healthier living, Ruari has inspired over 100,000 people worldwide to reassess their relationship with alcohol and strive to become the best version of themselves. In this episode, Dhru and Ruari dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): Regular consumption of alcohol is holding you back (0:0006 / 0:00:006) What shows up when you go 28 days without alcohol (4:54 / 4:54) The need for connection and joining the tribe as a hindrance to stopping alcohol (10:00 / 8:37) Ruari’s relationship to alcohol (16:00 / 14:46) Reasons people choose to numb out with alcohol (23:00 / 20:47) The types of individuals that Ruari coaches (31:30 / 28:11) High-functioning individuals who actively drink and what the goal should be (39:00 / 35:54) Ruari’s childhood and the role of childhood traumas (48:00 / 44:12) What you can prioritize once the focus is off alcohol (1:04:00 / 1:00:53) The vital role of community (1:09:00 / 1:05:40) Adding in to crowd out bad habits (1:19:00 / 1:15:50) What you can make progress in when alcohol isn’t the lead (1:28:00 / 1:24:45) Ruari’s life-changing moments (1:33:00 / 1:29:16) Dhru’s thoughts on alcohol (1:46:00 / 1:42:47) Also mentioned in this episode: One Year No Beer Instagram One Year No Beer Podcast Ruari's Episode with Rich Roll For more on Ruari, follow him on Twitter/X, Facebook, and Instagram. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRUP. AquaTru is a countertop reverse osmosis purifier with a four-stage filtration system that removes 15x more contaminants than the bestselling water filters out there. Go to dhrupurohit.com/filter/ and get $100 off when you try AquaTru for yourself.

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0:00.0	The regular consumption of alcohol, it's most certainly holding you back.
0:06.0	What are people sacrificing when they're regularly consuming alcohol in their lives?
0:12.0	I think this is so huge because I think most people are blissfully unaware.
0:18.3	I think they're in the matrix that we've been conditioned over decades, right, of watching aunties, uncles,
0:28.0	parents celebrate, commiserate, congratulate with alcohol, right? We've built all these neural pathways up in our brain about what it means, how it's attached to our identity.
0:37.2	You know, it's so subliminal. You say, oh, should we meet up and you know they're talking about alcohol or all of these things.
0:44.4	And so because it's so endemic alcohol, because it's so widely available, it's just
0:50.0	accepted.
0:51.0	It's normalised that this is just something that everybody does. But when we peeled back that
0:56.0	layer a little bit and we ask questions, well hang on a minute, you know, what is the actual truth about alcohol what's the real truth and I think that
1:06.6	only only now and only slowly are we starting to see the real truth, the real downstream impact of alcohol, which is, you know, that it's a neurotoxin, it's significantly damaging your brain, it's reducing gray matter, it is shrinking our brain. It is, and even if you look at the,
1:29.7	that's just direct alcohol consumption, what from drinking alcohol the sleep
1:35.1	disruption the met the drinking a depressant the psychological impact on our
1:41.3	brain and anxiousness, depression and now we're starting to link
1:46.2	more and more things to it so from a physical perspective you know alcohol is very
1:51.3	very harmful to our bodies.
1:53.0	It's 100% toxic.
1:55.1	So the moment you start drinking alcohol,
1:58.2	your body goes into fight or flight mode,
2:02.2	panic to try and you know process a toxin if it
2:05.8	doesn't if your body does not process alcohol you will die right so it's like
2:10.9	trying to get rid of a disease from your system.
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