John Robbins

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On The Mend · The Night John Robins Knew He Had to Quit Drinking · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

It makes me feel more in control.

Yeah.

not out of control it makes me feel very uh energized i get excited by it i get excited when i do it i don't get nauseous i don't really get hangovers in the way that friends of mine had

So there's definitely physiological reasons why alcohol was a problem.

But the example I use in the book, which has been told to me before, is if you said to me in a restaurant, I've got peanut allergy,

I wouldn't say, oh, were you born with that?

Or is it something you developed?

You'd be like, it doesn't matter.

I just really need to make sure there's no peanuts.

If we could make the not eating peanuts the priority.

If you want me to get one of those gene tests, I will do it, but I probably won't read the results because it's completely irrelevant.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No.

And also, you know, I was a very like...

You know, I had a lot of support around me.

I had a very understanding mum, very emotionally intelligent.

You know, I was a bright kid, very polite.

I wasn't sort of in with a sort of

bad crowd or anything.

I didn't misbehave.

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