As an active person, you should limit your alcohol consumption. By doing so, here’re the benefits you reap:
IMPROVED SLEEP: Alcohol destroys and disrupts your sleep schedule, especially when you drink regularly. Less sleep = less physical and mental performance in every way. Sleep also plays a crucial role in hormone regulation, muscle repair, brain function, digestive health and so much more.
LESS ANXIETY AND OTHER SYMPTOMS: Alcohol is correlated with anxiety (and other mental health disorders such as depression) and symptoms of it, especially the day after.
MORE MUSCLE & DEFINITION: Alcohol directly disrupts muscle recovery and thus halts muscle growth and performance. Furthermore, the hormones that promote and regulate muscle repair and growth are stunted (insulin-like growth factor and testosterone). Dehydration also plays a role in this.
FASTER BRAIN: Alcohol causes sluggishness, mental fog, symptoms of mental health disorders—all of which cause brain function to slow and shift.
IMPROVED & RELIABLE TRAINING: Alcohol causes dehydration, stunts recovery, messes up your sleep and slows you down—all of which cause your fitness to suffer. Without booze, you’ll feel 100% ready much more often (no hungover days, too!) and thus you’ll be able to train harder and more effectively 100x more often.
LESS CRAVINGS & MORE SOCIAL SKILL: The less you drink, the less you crave it and the more you have to work on being social WITHOUT it. This is a huge flex. Furthermore, alcohol is insanely caloric and leads to the munchies. This can throw your entire health plan off track.
IMPROVED FAITH & IDENTITY: Alcohol, especially drunkenness, doesn’t bring out the best in you and it truly takes you further from the woman or man you’re called to be for YOU and for others. We all know people whose drinking has hurt their relationships.
LIFESPAN GAINS: Alcohol is directly correlated with less grey matter in your brain: it kills and destroys irreplaceable brain cells. Taking a booze break may seriously extend your brain’s lifespan.
Are you sober curious? How has alcohol impacted you? What role does it play in your life?
