Simple Secrets to Handle Your Alcohol Better

By Doug Setter

The scientific approach for the people who want to enjoy or give up alcohol without the guilt or embarrassing counselling or therapies. Learn about how your medical conditions, genetics, family background and physical environment can encourage drinking alcohol, rather than hidden psychological issues. More important, learn the importance of nutrition, supplements and behaviour changing that can take away the physical urge to drink. As the body gets biochemically stronger, it is able to resist the psychological cravings for alcohol or a need to numb feelings of despair or loneliness. Alcohol is meant to enhance a meal or social event rather than enslave or destroy a person's health. Based on the research by scientists Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw and Dr. Joan Mathews-Larson, Simple Secrets to Handler Your Alcohol Better describes the methods that are 300% more effective than traditional counselling methods.

Discover:
Medical conditions that increase need for alcohol.
The six different types of genetic-based alcohol reactions.
How light, eating disorders, work places and allergies increase the physical need to drink.
Proven tips for resisting alcohol poisoning and hangovers.

Lose the guilt and self-depreciation. Take back your lost weekends, health and life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Doug Setter
• Release date: Mar 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370281893

Doug Setter

Doug has worked as a Morse Code Operator, paratrooper and United Nations peacekeeper. He has run marathons, competed in kick-boxing in Canada and Hong Kong and climbed Mt. Rainier. He lives in New Westminster, Canada. 

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Simple Secrets to

Handle Your Alcohol Better

Student's Edition

By Doug Setter, B.Sc

Published by Resilience Press 2016

New Westminster, B.C Canada

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Disclaimer

This book does not replace medical advice or to be a substitute for consulting a physician. If you are taking prescription medication, you should never change your diet without first consulting your physician as any dietary change will affect the action of that prescription drug. The viewpoints expressed in this book are solely the author’s. Even with the documented research, this author is responsible for his own interpretation. Therefore, do not be careless with this new knowledge. Be aware that:

I am a researcher and writer, not a physician. There is yet to be an end-all, be-all solution to people’s substance cravings.

While the nutrient intake and behavior modification methods have worked for some people, they might not work for everyone.

The mentioned formulae and techniques are options available, which you can choose from based on your values and judgments, not mine.

You are responsible for your nutrient intake and behavior experiments. As mentioned in the book, everyone is bio-chemically different from one another. Please take your time in trying these ideas and find out what works for you.

The nutrient formulae suggested are notfor children, pregnant women, certain medical conditions or careless persons.

You should consult your physician before taking large dosages of vitamins. Certain illnesses can be aggravated from these mega-doses of vitamins. For instance:

Large dosages of acidic vitamins such as vitamin C and B-3, taken on an empty stomach can make ulcers worse. It may cause serious bleeding.

Vitamin preparations containing sodium may worsen high blood pressure, heart disease or kidney trouble.

Vitamin B-6 will counteract certain drugs such as L-Dopa and worsen conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.

This book contains old information being re-presented to you. This workbook only holds a small fraction of mind-body health information.

In Health,

Doug Setter

25 October, 2016

Vancouver, B.C. Canada

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the research done by Joan Larson in her book 21 Days to Sobriety, and to Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw in their books on Life Extension and Dr. Perry Martin and Joseph Pear for their work in Behavior Modification.

This book could not have been completed without the painstaking editing and proofreading by Melody Ann Owen of Nutritious Truth Publishing

Special thanks to former U.S. Ranger, (Ret’d) Warrant Officer Dave Christensen for his advice on trauma and survivor guilt. Special thanks to Ms. Theresa Fletcher for her friendship and insight to alcoholics.

Table Of Contents

Section one: born to booze

The bio-chemical differences

1. Natural alcoholics and non-alcoholics

2. What bio-chemistry type are you?

3. Bio-chemistry test results

4. Non-alcoholic bio-chemistry

5. Alcoholic bio-chemistry

Section two: internal and external factors

6. Medical conditions and alcohol

7. External factors and alcohol

Section three: recover, rebuild, renew

8. Low alcohol craving eating

9. Allergies and alcoholic craving

10. Fats that cure

11. Damage control

12. Long range recovery

13. Changing behavior (drinking or otherwise)

14. Money and alcohol

Afterward

Annex a sugar content

Fast Introduction

As a student, the last thing you need is another technical, authoritative text book or a massive guilt trip. You have enough on your plate with school, work, family pressures and making the rent. I know the feeling. I have been in vocational school, college and university. It is always a scramble. You learn to study, work and get things done often at the risk of missing meals, rest and a personal life. And when it comes time for letting off steam, the booze is a fast track to taking the pressure off. You know: the parties, Happy Hours, and social gatherings with friends or members of the opposite sex. Party on.

The downside is the damage to your health, wealth and academic ability when the drinking becomes an all-consuming habit. So, I wrote this book for you, the young, optimistic, ambitious student with the whole world waiting for you to do something significant with your life. In the meantime, keep yourself strong, happy and healthy and still enjoy the occasional drink along the way.

How To Use This Book

The book is written in three sections:

Section 1: Bio-chemical differences. How genetics and body chemistry affect our reactions to alcohol. (Yes, you really were born that way.) Take the questionnaire and find out how your unique bio-chemistry responds to alcohol.

Section 2: Internal and External factors. Learn how medical conditions, upbringing, family and all contribute to how much you feel like drinking. Your cravings are not about weak morals or lack of spirituality.

Section 3: Recover, Rebuild, Renew. Learn how to protect yourself from alcohol poisoning and re-program your behavior, so that you do not need a drink.

This book is designed for quickly answering your questions without having to plow through the whole volume. The first section needs you to answer a questionnaire and then read about your own personal results. This is a good place to start. But, it is not the end-all. The second section explains different psychological influences. You can also examine the genetic and medical conditions that contribute to heavy drinking.

The third section is full of proven methods to regain your health and lose your alcohol craving. It is my intent that you build confidence in each piece of knowledge so that you are of the mindset that you can make changes and not repeat patterns you might have been raised with.

Section One: Born To Booze

The Bio-chemical Differences

Chapter 1: Natural Alcoholics and Non-Alcoholics

Let’s talk about our genetic differences without offending too many people. Many of us are born different from other people, period. Certain genetic backgrounds can tolerate greater extremes in climates and altitudes or different diets than other genetic groups. Some people thrive on vegetarianism while others are heavy carnivores. As the saying goes: One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

It sounds racist to mention that genetics can play a role in alcohol craving. Yet, when you consider the differences in climate, eating habits, blood types and origins of different races, you get an understanding how unique different body chemistries are. Just as one person can build up a tolerance to alcohol, whole generations can adapt to certain amounts of alcohol. For instance, people from Greek and Roman backgrounds have been using alcohol for over 2,000 years. As a sharp contrast, some groups of people, such as the people living in the Arctic Circle (Inuit) have been exposed to alcohol (and refined starches) for less than 100 years. Their bodies have not had the thousands of years to adapt to alcohol.

This is not to say someone from a Greek or Roman background can tolerate alcohol any more