Ruari Fairbairns

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101 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Begin Again with Davina McCall · Begin Again Moments: Alcohol Awareness Week · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

I did a lot of party drugs when I was younger.

So despite having this relationship with alcohol and also it being part of my job as an oil broker,

there were some things.

And I think, you know, the things I didn't really realize, I didn't really link them to the alcohol consumption.

I didn't realize that alcohol was causing these other things that I was trying to sort out.

And I would say that when I did actually finally change my relationship with alcohol, that's when you look back and you go, oh, wow.

You know, I didn't realize that I was not that bad, but that it was having that impact on me.

So let's look at it from the other perspective.

So it's hard in the moment to see what impact alcohol is having on you because of its sort of, not just its brainwashing, but society's expectations and also the ignorance and things like that.

So what happens when you remove alcohol?

Well, I mean, the lights go on, you know, the sudden increase in energy, clarity, productivity.

IBS, a decade of seeing doctors, Chinese health medicine, you've got IBS, taking medication, disappeared.

Right?

So psoriasis, gone.

So depression, anxiety, significantly reduced.

So there were all of these things that I wasn't really attributing to this regular alcohol consumption.

And even at the time, it was only two, maybe three times a week drinking, probably binge drinking, sometimes heavily.

So, and that still today is pretty normal.

That's what normal drinking behavior looks like.

And yet I had all of these benefits.

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