If you do not drink, there is no need to start drinking, or read any further. Thank you for visiting!
However, if you do enjoy drinking for personal, business, social or recreational reasons, there is a way to do it, a process that will help you make the best of it.
Here we go!
First off, let’s establish the ground work. You never want to drink to get out of a certain emotional state. Drinking to escape, is wrong, no matter what tradition, medical or philosophical system you follow. If you are going to drink, it is to celebrate, to bond, to savor the situation.
Now that everybody is happy we can move on to what you can do before, during and after the alcohol ceremony.
Ayurveda says that alcohol aggravates the Vata and Pitta bio-energies. In order to counteract their negative side effects, you need to safely raise the Kapha bio-energy.
In plain English, you want to add foods that will:
- Protect the lining of your gut.
- Assist your liver.
- Slow down the alcohol absorption into your bloodstream.
- Prevent dehydration.
- Keep your minerals from being depleted.
- Prevent you from feeling bloated.
- And keep you from getting drunk while still allowing you to develop a “pleasant buzz” that lasts.
Some things you can do before an evening of alcohol…
- Sip green tea (not black tea) with lemon throughout the day.
- Eat really good fats, such as avocados (they also have potassium), salmon, eggs, chicken, olive oil, coconut oil, olives, nuts and seeds (give you some B-vitamins) along with vegetables and/or salad.
- Add some turmeric and/or cinnamon to your food.
- Avoid gluten and starch.
Some things you can do during the evening of alcohol…
- Have a glass of water for every shot of alcohol.
- Avoid the bar food, unless you can get something like the foods mentioned above.
- Opt for clean, high-end alcohol without any fruit juices or other type of sugar added in.
- The cleanest alcohol we have found that will give you a long lasting “buzz” without the hangover effect is the NorCal Margarita created by Robb Wolf. A major added bonus is that you do not need more than 1-2 of them so it makes it highly efficient. It involves about 2 shots of good tequila, the juice of a lime and club soda (not seltzer water.)
Some things you can do after the evening of alcohol…
- If you feel hungry have some good clean protein.
- Drink plenty of water with some fresh lemon and sea salt or himalayan rock salt in it.
- Have some coconut charcoal, or burned toast crumbs in full-fat plain yogurt.
- Have some ginger and lemon tea.
- Have about a teaspoon of Braggs apple cider vinegar in a glass of water.
Most important, enjoy every moment of it!!
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Thank you for reading!!
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Vie Binga, a former mathematician and computer scientist turned Ayurvedic practitioner, professional yoga therapist and stand up paddleboard instructor loves to biohack blending science and nature.
Tim Ganley, a former law enforcement officer and SWAT Leader/Trainer loves fitness, yoga, paddleboarding, kayaking, rock climbing, scuba diving and everything else involving the great outdoors and the state of flow.
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