In this episode: Why substances gave Anthony a personality and what they were actually doing to his nervous system Emotional development and why so many people in early recovery feel like children The fawn response, people pleasing, and the codependency piece (Melody Beattie, Codependent No More ) "Sobriety without identity work is just white knuckling and better skin" The grief of losing the version of you that people actually liked Why you don't find yourself in sobriety you build yourself, slowly, with a lot of awkward trial runs The social fallout: which friendships survive and which don't What Anthony actually does now: pausing before agreeing, using silence as a tool, recognizing the automatic yes Recovery is personal
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A meta-analysis of ten trials involving sixty-seven thousand seven hundred sixty-nine patients found that GLP-1 drugs reduced MACE by thirteen percent, cardiovascular death by fourteen percent, and all-cause mortality by thirteen percent
Whether with apps or digital trackers, its easier than ever to log weight, meals, and workouts
Most of those interleukins potentiate the activation and expression of cytotoxic proteins in CD8+ T cells [22]
Lifestyle changes fix all of these organs
