Stephen Bartlett
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while.
And I think about my own relationship with drinking.
And I stopped drinking at 30 years old.
I'm now 33.
And I had just drank because I just drank.
I'd never ran the experiment of just giving it up for a while.
And then, like, I don't know, maybe I was at 31.
I thought, you know, I'll have a drink again.
Because now I could really A-B test it.
I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again.
It ruined three days of my life.
I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk.
It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused.
So it meant that I got worse sleep that night.
And then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up.
And then I podcasted worse.
I didn't go to the gym the day after.
People did not like the iPodcasted worse line.
Because I felt really bad.
I then slept worse.