Dr. Martin Picard

A basic energetic law of life.

So if you put alcohol in the body, now the body has to spend a precious portion of its energy budget to removing alcohol.

Are you willing to sacrifice 10% of your energy budget

going towards alcohol detoxification?

Can you spare that at 10%?

If you care about that 10% and you want your vitality, then maybe you don't drink.

I think it steals a piece of your energy budget.

Oh.

So whether you want to allocate that energy, if you have extra energy to spare, you want to do that.

That's a good way to think about it.

In some cases, let's say vital processes, nothing you can do about this.

And as you age, probably those increases.

Stress processes.

Mm-hmm.

The mind creates most of those, stress-related energetic costs.

And then growth, maintenance, and repair.

If you're, for some reason, circumstantial or you have some, we all have shit from our past that we deal with, if this is burning a big chunk of your energy budget every day,

You're a little traumatized or you worry about the future, about your self-image or whatever.

If this is burning, let's say 20%, 30% of your energy budget.

And when you drink alcohol, that 30% goes to 5%, right?