Recovery Elixirs are the ultimate way to bio-hack your recovery. Using specific superfoods, nutraceuticals, organic foods, and beverages, you can optimize your brain and body and feel your best. Matt Finch and Chris Scott share their favorite Recovery Elixirs and teach you how to create your own elixirs too.
There are so many things you can drink, swallow, or eat to feel better while recovering from addiction.
Recovery Elixirs can aid a person to also enjoy recovery more, including the bliss of better health and better emotional moods.
Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:
- ‘Drug & Alcohol Alternatives’
- ‘Recovery Elixirs’
- CBD oil
- Lumi CBD vape pen
- Dram CBD-infused beverages
- Dosist CBD vape pen
- CBD drops, extracts, vaporizers, gummies, chocolates, drinks, elixirs, and more
- CBD products (good quality vs bad quality)
- CBD to improve mood and sleep, and to decrease aches and pain
- Terpenes in CBD
- The CBD ‘Entourage Effect’
- 100% CBD oil products vs CBD/THC combo products
- CBDPure brand of CBD
- Releaf brand of CBD (CBD/THC 3:1 ratio) liquid extract
- Top Extracts CBD 1,000 mg Full Spectrum
- Elixinol Liposomal 1,000 mg CBD Oil
- Spliffs with 90% tobacco and 10% cannabis leaf (not a recovery elixir but medicinal or bio-hacking use)
- THC for medicinal use
- THC as a scheduled drug by the DEA
- Transcending addiction and optimizing brain/body health
- Being able to use various mood-altering substances medicinally and responsibly… without getting addicted
- Reframing alcohol as an ‘undesirable poison’
- Socially acceptable addiction to caffeine
- ‘Your Life, Your Body’
- Green tea benefits and mechanisms of action
- L-Theanine benefits
- Mixing theanine with CBD, green tea, and kava as a Recovery Elixir
- Kava candies
- Using kava instead of drinking alcohol
- Recovery rates for people abstaining from the use of all mood-altering substances for life
- Harm reduction practices (responsible use, medicinal use, etc)
- Matcha late as a Recovery Elixir (1 TSP of Matcha Powder with 8 ounces of hot almond milk, coconut milk, or milk)
- Golden Milk as a Recovery Elixir (1 TSP of Golden Milk powder with 8 ounces of hot almond milk or coconut milk
- Turmeric at night to reduce neuroinflammation and body inflammation and repair liver
- Using a turmeric product with black pepper added to it for super-absorption
- Bill Wilson of AA dropping LSD and taking mega-doses of niacin to finally banish his depression and alcohol cravings for good
- 1 TSP of Sun Potion brand of Anandamide mixed with CBD as a Recovery Elixir
- Nootropics, cognition-enhancers, and sedatives
- Saffron for depression and to neutralize free radicals
- Chocolate elixirs for recovery
- Dragon Herbs brand; Spring Dragon Longevity Tea
- Chinese tonic herbs for recovery
- Acupuncture for recovery
- Candida capsules for eating carbs without getting a ‘food baby’ effect
- The Recovery Elixir smoothie Chris loves (a couple of leaves of kale, a handful of frozen wild blueberries, a banana, half an avocado, some broccoli sprouts, fresh ginger, fresh turmeric, kefir, monkfruit sweetener)
- Recovery Elixir smoothie Matt loves (Almond milk, frozen wild blueberries, 1 TSP greens powder, 1 TSP flaxseed oil, one banana, 1 TSP matcha powder, 1 TSP mucuna powder, 1 TSP beetroot juice powder, 1 TSP maca root powder, 1 scoop whey protein powder)
- M-Cubed latte Recovery Elixir (8 ounces hot almond or coconut milk, 1 TSP maca root powder, 1 TSP mucuna pruriens powder, 1 TSP matcha powder)
- Bulletproof coffee (coffee mixed with 1 TBS unsalted grass-fed butter and 1 TSP Brain Octane Oil or MCT oil and blended for 20 seconds)
- English Breakfast tea mixed with chamomile tea (mixed with unsalted grass-fed butter and Brain Octane Oil and blended for 20 seconds)
- Organic Cold-Pressed Extra-Virgin Olive Oil as a Recovery Elixir
- Coffee dependence
- Morning routines
- Reishi mushroom (Chinese adaptogenic herb) infused into coffee or using with other things or alone
- Amino acids to help with dopamine production (eg tyrosine and DLPA)
- The ‘Morning Tonic’ as a Recovery Elixir for energy (4 ounces water, 1 Good Belly Super Shot drink, 3 droppers full of Dragon Herbs Ginseng Sublime, 3 droppers full of Wild Reishi, 1 TBS maca root powder; drink first thing in the morning once a day)
- Recovery Elixir for sleep (4 teabags of chamomile tea mixed with 12 ounces of warm milk before bed)
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I thank you all for your valuable advice. I am going to need all the help I can find. And prayer is good also. God bless you.
We’re glad you enjoyed this episode and received value from it. And we wish you the best of luck.
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Hi guys . We try to listen to your pod casts every week.
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