Stephen Bartlett

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.