How Giving Up Alcohol Transformed Everything, with Dr Alex George

Me deciding to stop drinking was the single best decision I've ever made bar nothing. There is nothing in my life that has come close, no career decision, no path, that is the single best decision I've ever made. Everything else that follows on was because of it. I suspect it will be for a long time. That was the voice of Dr.

Alex George, an A<unk>E doctor, a reality star. Turned a mental health advocate, a podcaster, a youth mental health ambassador, and now an author. But behind all of those campaigns and all of that incredible work, behind his public face, was for so long a man medicating his life with alcohol. So December 4th, 2022, sitting in a hairdresser's chair, Alex was at rock bottom. Twenty Stone drinking to suppress the grief of losing his brother to suicide.

And it was at that moment that he took an honest look in the mirror, and it was the catalyst for transformation. He gave up alcohol. And as you've just heard at the start of this episode, it changed everything for him. And we're about to explore why so many of us are auto enrolled into drinking, why it's the only drug you have to explain that you don't take and the three groups of people that Alex believes should never drink at all.

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