I have been a serious binge drinker for years, has anyone had success with herba!
Question:
I have been a serious binge drinker for years, has anyone had success with herbal remedies to stop drinking?
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3 months ago
Basically I used to hide out all weekend and drink and then be hungover. Now I hide out in secret drinking at home alone all day for a week. I have even gone to hotels in other towns and locked myself in a room and just drank. My last vacation I bought tons of alcohol and just hid in the house.
3 months ago
I have tried a lot of things.
Answers:
I have three suggestions for you. They aren't magic bullets but they should help.
1) Cut sugar completely out of your diet. I believe that alcoholics become addicted to alcohol because of a problem with metabolizing sugar. It will be hard for a few days but stick with it. Don't worry about the alcohol just yet, but be very strict about no other sugar of any kind. Limit yourself to no more than three servings of fruit each day.
2) Add lots of lean protein to your diet. Alcoholics seem to have a need for a lot of protein.
3) Get a really serious multi-vitamin from a health food store and take the recommended dosage every day.
Stick with this program for 3-4 weeks. It should build your health up and change your body's metabolism so that your craving for alcohol is less (not gone, but decreased.) Then you are ready to do as the other posters have advised, to seek treatment and help for the psychological addiction.
Best of luck to you.