Matt Finch and Chris Scott discuss their alcohol addictions, what it was like being dependent, what it was like going through acute withdrawal and delirium tremens (DTs), and what life is like now using natural therapies for feeling good, natural highs, and other healthy and adaptive habits.
Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:
- Matt and Chris hang out in person in San Diego and go for a cold plunge in the freezing cold ocean, bodysurfing, then immunity shots and a healthy meal
- The benefits of living by the coast or vacationing by the coast
- People that become passionate about holistic health often have an easier time recovering from addiction than people that do not
- The dangerous statement “There’s nothing to around here other than to drink or use drugs”
- When you’re trapped inside your head it’s hard to move forward
- “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right”
- Why Matt is loving doing guided hypnosis audios by Marisa Peer
- The power of using the 9-Breath Method (super-oxygenating the body)
- How Chris uses Evernote to keep his ideas in bullet-points to stay organized
- How Chris would write down all sorts of ideas for ways to make money other than working in finance
- How Matt would drink all day and watch surfing videos and think about all the wonderful things he was going to do but would keep drinking and not do any of it
- If you don’t know where to begin to overcome an addiction start by writing every day to get thoughts out of your head and down on paper or a file
- Alcohol can be a “delusion-inducing energy suck”
- How Chris was unable to “write his masterpiece” while under the influence of alcohol
- New biohacking supplements Chris and Matt are enjoying
- Somaderm HGH Gel that Matt uses
- Neura-Vie Nootropic Drink Matt and Chris used before this episode
- Opioid tolerance and dependence and Matt’s experience with it
- Chris and Matt on their delirium tremens (DTs) from alcohol withdrawal
- Using benzos very short-term for alcohol withdrawal
- Matt’s experience using crystal meth for alcohol withdrawal and why that is a really bad thing to take… EVER
- Anecdotes of people using meth to quit opioids then getting addicted to meth and being much worse off
- When people are desperate to avoid withdrawal often times they will make poor decisions due to fearing being so sick
- A low-cost supplement combo for people on alcohol that want to quit (b-complex, glutamine, Legion Triumph, fish oil, vitamin C)
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