How To Quit Without Feeling S**T / Gall Bladder Is Actually NOT Fucked

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Even though it’s April 3rd, I will try to post every day this month, at the humble request of three good friends who are all doing the same. Should make for some good bored-at-work reading.

To bring you up to scratch with what’s happening with me, I can now confirm that in fact, I am not dieing. The whole gall bladder scare was indeed, just my body’s way of telling me to shut-up and stop worrying that my liver is about to disintegrate into little colourful bubbles. Bloodtests and ultra sounds showed that I am actually in perfect health. Which is shocking, considering my diet of 80 bottles of wine per night. Nevertheless, I still feel like shit, hence, the other part of this blog post title, which relates to one of the 700 books I’m currently reading, all at the same time.

How To Quit Without Feeling S**t  (website is here) is so far, brilliant. I only started reading it today, and just feel like I want to eat the book, page by page, in order to absorb the information at the highest frequency. Basically, this is all about me wanting to cut out my stupid, relesent addiction to uber yummy wine, which I can tell you is born from my absolute obsession with all things sour. I might as well boil bags of sour candy to their liquid form, and drink that. However, one would wonder is this is even worse for the liver? (It’s not gall stones! It’s little sour kids!)

I read the introduction to the book, got excited and flipped straight to the alcohol addiction section. Altogether, the book promises a very high success rate of getting over your addiction (oh, and this also includes cigarettes, sugar, caffine, cocaine, heroin, etc. So really, we all could use this book right?), so I’m pumped to kick the habit, like, NOW. But it is all very confusing. For example, it says in the plan I need to take Basic Supplements and the Alcohol Prescription one week before I quit. This is the Basic Supplements plan:

• An optimum nutrition multivitamin and mineral where the multivitamin must contain at least 2,230mcg vitamin A, 15mcg vitamin D, 100iu vitamin E, 250mg vitamin C, 25mg of B1, B2, B3, B5, and B6 each, 10mcg vitamin B12, 200mch folic acid and 50mcg biotin. The mutimineral on the other hand should contain at least 200mg calcium, 150g magnesium, 10mg zinc, 2.5mg maganese, 20mcg chromium and 25mcg selenium.
• Vitamin C supplement in addition to the vitamin C in the multivitamin proving 1,000-2,000mg daily. Apparently, if you’re a heroin addict it recommends 10,000mg daily. Thats 5 to 10 capsules a day, depending on the potency of the vitamin C you’ve purchased. Also, there’s even more vitamin C recommended in the Prescription section, albeit in powder form which really varies the repetition up, don’t you think?
• Essential omega-3 and 6 fats. For Omega-6 they recommend a supplement that includes GLA which is the most direct source (you can also get this from eating fish that eat fish like mackeral and salmon. Although I didn’t know that salmon ate other fish and need to wikipedia this.). The book recommends I take 100mg of GLA daily, which is in evening primrose oil. Thankfully, this comes in capsule form, therefore allowing me to avoid any weird rubbing rituals. Then, for omega-3, I need to take 1,000mg daily of a supplement which includes EPA, DPA and DHA. Its biology all over again! Oh, and then they say that if you’ve been leading a brain-unfriendly lifestyle, like drinking, they recommend you triple your fatty acid dosage. So therefore I would take 3,000mg of omega-3 and 300mg GLA.
• A Phospholipid supplement which includes phosphatidyl choline, phosphatidyl serine and DMAE. This all helpfully comes in lecithin capsules. However, I understand that just by eating an egg, you get twice the  recommended phospholipid amount you need.

The above is only for the Basic Supplement. When I turned the page to the Alchol Prescription and was introducted to 5-HTP and other weird and wonderful supplements which honestly, might as well have been written in Japanese, I got completely over-whelmed.

Then there’s the whole idea that I don’t even know if this is going to be okay, to take 18 capsules per day. It’s more than my grandparents, combined, on both sides of the family, have needed to take in the morning. And this is all before reading about the stuff you need to take for liver regeneration, dodgy stomach, etc., and if for instance, you were a drinker and a smoker, and wanted to quit both, you’re recommended to undertake the smoking prescription 2 weeks after the alchol, taking your daily supplement amount to 5.3 billion pills. I can just imagine my boss’s reaction to me sitting there constantly popping pills all day.

Thus, while I am still determined to kick this naughty habit of mine, I might not undertake all of the advice at once. I think I need to read almost all of the book before I fully understand what is required, and save up a couple of grand in my bank account to fund my new addiction to vitamins. It is recommended that you completely abstain from alcohol for 90 days, whilst undergoing the programme, which is just fine as I go on holiday in August, so can promptly start binge drinking on margarihtas and listerine under the Spanish sun.

I will definitely take the Basic Supplements programme, the vitamin C and glutamine (reduces cravings)  starting from tonight, and I will let you know how I get on. But thankfully, we all know, that indeed, I am in perfect health.

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