por J@vier | Feb 19, 2022 | Sober living
While there aren’t really any benefits to drinking after a workout, if you do have an adult beverage, choose wisely. In fact, exercise has been shown to help decrease the urge to drink (2). Of course, we all want a simple, achievable number for how long we should...
por J@vier | Feb 16, 2022 | Sober living
12 step meetings are designed to provide intensive peer support whenever it is needed. In addition to group meetings and peer sponsorship, participants “work the steps” to achieve recovery through a systematic healing of the mind, body, and spirit. Additionally, Hope...
por J@vier | Oct 9, 2020 | Sober living
Even among those who don’t drink heavily, some will experience diarrhea and cramping. You may want to massage the sore spot when you’re resting, but it’s a bad idea. You may break more blood vessels under the skin and make the bruised area larger. When someone hits...
por J@vier | Sep 28, 2020 | Sober living
Substance use is not always an indication of addiction, although drug use carries numerous health and social risks in addition to the risk of addiction. Recovery is owning up to our actions right or wrong and is giving up the victim role. As a person continues to use...
por J@vier | Aug 19, 2020 | Sober living
When we’re dehydrated, our brain function can become significantly impaired. This is why people who are severely dehydrated get easily confused and disoriented alcohol brain fog — sometimes even becoming delirious. The Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a type of brain...
por J@vier | Jul 31, 2020 | Sober living
In addition, aripiprazole has been shown to reverse alcohol‐induced place preference and anxiety‐like behaviour in mice [182]. An example of such interaction occurs in Purkinje cells, a type of neuron found in the cerebellum. In these cells, the increased activation...
