I am comforted by the fact that I'm not just a 'weak' person....and my father was not just a 'weak' person....and my grandfather was not just a 'weak' person.
What JM said. Since bodys GABA production in hybernation that's why LGlutamine he says works. Also body can break it down quickly for blood glucose and avoids insulin spike so good for avoiding insulin spike. Also repairs gut.
Ethanol's primary psychoactive action is on the GABA system. It basically widens the gap ending of the neuron allowing more gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) to flow through. This in turn dampens glutamate (primary excitatory neurotransmitter) making you feel calm, relaxed and lowering your overall inhibition.
He said that the amygdala is underproductive in alcoholics. He also said that the amygdala is the seat of emotions. So a question--Can suppressing emotions during development, perhaps because of a mother who told the child things like "You shouldn't feel that way", can such suppression induce a tendency to alcoholism that in a healthier family situation wouldn't occur?
Yes, totally! Most addicts are having CPTSD from childhood trauma, neglect and abuse! Their emotional literacy is so low, and funny enough…mist of them end up drug or alcohol addicts! Great observation!
Best video and information love heard Was reading about gaba n amygdala years ago but couldn’t put all together There is hope after all. As Alcoholics are far from weak!!
You are spot on mate. Ive been taking all the supplements you recommended for only two weeks and my dts have vanished. I was having a seisure from going cold turkey a few weeks ago and your website has helped alot since. Ive been an alcoholic for 25 years and always knew AA was not the answer.
Amazing. This was 12 months ago, how's it going? No tremors for me on today day 5 not drinking and been taking many the recommended supplements for 3 days and no craving, some mood swings though not as many as last time I tried quitting with out the supplements. Sleep better with the magnesium VitC Zinc Glutamine etc..
Hi Chris, I really admire your proactive attitude, experimentation and determination to understand and beat alcoholism. I believe all that you have invested (intellectually, psychologically, and spiritually) will effectively help people who want to quit, but just haven't treated it like a problem that needs to be solved. I have been fishin' around on the internet (for quite awhile now) for something that would give me a kick in the ass, and feel your proactive attitude, experimentation and determination is exactly what I need to treat this like a problem that needs to be solved. Thanks for all of your fantastic suggestion: I can't wait to get busy : > )
Chris, what I most love about your approach to beating alcoholism, is that I don't feel like I have to rely on luck, I feel like you have armed me with a plethora of weapons to shoot down this enemy. Thank you again.
Incredibly informative video. I’ve been an alcoholic since I was really young, I can’t seem to shake off this addiction. This really helps and I’m going to go buy myself Gat protein, I’m eager to see the results that has. AA hasn’t worked for me neither has rehab. Fingers crossed this will. Thanks for your video on this.
Buy GABA from amazon. Work really good. I can abuse alcohol at times. I've been taking gaba for almost a month with herbs that are good your your brain and liver(milk thistle, kudzu root etc) .gaba helps reduce my anxiety , calms me down and helps me sleep.
The only thing is gonna work is God asking him to help us having the relationship with him reading his word attending a church ⛪️ I believe in this 💯 it works he removes all graving and addictions if we put the work and we want too
@@DeliaNErik It's fine to believe whatever you believe, but posting that here is just disrespectful and simply wrong. These people need real medical help and you're selfishly pedaling your unsubstantiated religious claims. Shame on you.
Greetings from Ireland. I hope you are well. Your videos are both very informative and fascinating . These remedies have been around for years for a reason.I remember being in Cuzco and LA Paz and how chewing Coca leaves made such a difference with the altitude. Have tried l-glutamine and Dlpa and jury is still out on their efficacy. As you say, find what works for you /bio diversity. I have ordered some red kali kratom as my research and development continues 😁
whoa; don't stop benzos and booze at the same time; it took me 2 years to titrate down from 2 mg off clonazepam (Canada) Klonapin in US I think; still take .5 I don't care. I'm 65 it's as low as I can go; it's almost nothing and my decision. My anxiety peaked; I did a lot of work on that; it's physiological. Take up the celtic harp!
I left AA, I cannot stand it anymore. I'm going to use the gym and cbt therapy. I've struggled 30 years. I'm the same with bread and sugar, I cannot only have 1 candy bar.
Thank you for this video. Current treatment for alcoholism isn't working, and I feel therapists and psychologist take away a person's self efficacy and empowerment by saying "An addict is an addict". Digging through childhood traumas, and searching for spiritual causes really in the end doesn't fully address alcoholism. From my experience, when you hit upon a truth, you can feel it working immediately which leads to hope and therefore more likely one will stick to it.
Hey, Chris! This IS exciting news!! I hope researchers will look to people with autism. I understand they often suffer from an anxiety which is relieved by using alcohol. They need a break, imo!
We all are temporarily relieved of anxiety by using alcohol and then it gets 10 times worse. If you are concerned about autism and anxiety, read Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation.
Thank you for this video. Many, including Marc Lewis, William Porter, and Craig Beck argue against the Disease Theory of Alcoholism, however, if there is a physiological difference, then there is a disease. Could you comment?
This sort of knowlege is WAAAY better at helping me avoid alcohol than some AA 'weakness' or 'trauma' based theory. I can't drink...NOT because of my upbringing...not because of my emotional lack of control.......but because my GABA recycling is weak. Alcohol will only make it worse. Guilt free. Move on with my life. Btw, I know this GABA thing is true, because when I started taking Acamprosate my cravings completely ended.
J M where does it in AA literature say that alcohol is caused by weakness or trauma?? Nowhere. Quite the opposite. But if you’re managing to beat alcohol addiction with ‘exercise’ and ‘getting enough sleep’ I am so very pleased for you. But you’re not the same type of alcoholic as I.
When people Bash AA, it can be argued that it is their EGO which is doing this. And the disease exists primarily in the EGO. When you let the EGO go, you can find it is much easier to fight the negative stigma and impulses to drink. People are always looking for an easy way out, but I've found that I cannot out-think the disease, and a support group is one of the best ways to get better.
AA hadn't helped me either. I'd found it very depressing. We are NOT POWERLESS and I don't believe drinking is a disease (like diabetes). SMART Recovery does work for me. Fit Recovery also works for me. Chris, Matt, and Tana -- Fit Recovery -- are experts at biochemical repair.
Well trauma, in childhood, cause all kind of emotional issues, like inability to actually detect what you feel, and as child you probably come up with different strategies to survive! Amygdala does store and is very much involved in the emotions, etc…so it is true, but most literature makes a bad job of explaining!
Scientists cans say what the cause is for alcohol addiction..the truth is, it's emotional trauma. It's emotional. I know because that's what happened to me. But, yes. I continued to drink. Alcohol is a nasty shit hole.
D Tatah: If the cbd oil has high thc levels it is believed to be the culprit in worse anxiety. Make sure you are dealing with a supplier who is committed to providing a low thc or thc free product.
My ex-husband, beloved and now dead, found small quantities of marijuana helpful; he was careful to smoke outside because it made me paranoid. The way things are.
Anyone who's had an alcohol-related seizure; that would be me freaks out after the valium which mimics what alcohol does to hijack already compromised GABA receptors and slowly and painfully -- that's life, try being a navy seal, which I am not but their life is not that of a happy dolphin in a cartoon -- you get better. It's neuroplasticity that enables us to redirect neuronal pathways; not ignoring amygdala just thinking how that works. You've got a client who hates AA meetings, never met one who didn't; AA in itself could say all kinds of hooey; it's the isolation which reinforces anxiety etc. which overcoming fear of groups -- we didn't start out that way --- may be helpful. I have no opinion other than anectodal accounts from my sis etc.; some of them I thought positive; some which kept people in a state of fear -- not so good. 50/50.
Every one has different strengths and weaknesses. So have diffent gaps u have to fill with positive habits. Basic relative inexpensive supplements have got me to 5 days no drinking with next to no anxiety and poor sleep. I'd been going to the gym so easy to do a solid work out which ive done a few times this week. Early days but affects of the supplements so far giving me hope, eg sleeping well I think thanks to the magnesium, cutting sugar and using Lglutamine pre and post exercise and when get up seems to have increased appetite and no sugar or alc cravings. I had metamucile mixed with Lglutamine and creatine in water then chewed some VitC 20 minutes later was salivating whilst making a fatty breakfast to have the rest of the supplements which other sources say best absorbed with a meal containing fats.
Mother Humboldts' CBD cream used twice a day miraculously cured my alcoholism. More miraculous, is, I did not start using the cream, whatsoever, originally, for Alcoholism.
Thanks, these are some good reminders, there’s no question that increasing your mental clarity and boosting your drive, comes with quitting. Yes, there are many ways to kick the habit, Steffon Barkload's Quit Drinking Forever is what worked for me, best shortcut I go’ogled that took days without withdrawal.
At best you can say they have found on possible cause in rats in a lab. It cannot yet be confidently states that scientists have found the root cause in all settings. This is a good start but the test has to be replicated. Not to mention years of clinical trials on humans to test for the same. We are still a very long way off in understanding alcohol addiction.
You of course know that double blind testing on humans likely to endanger their lives is illegal almost across the globe. I'm vegan; I'm also a realist.
This study is misrepresented in this naive presentation. It was the stress that drove alcohol craving and consumption. Amygdala is the center of fight/flight/stress response and enlarges in stress animals. So, when stressed you reach for alcohol, you are a rat, but a normal rat. Correlation is NOT causation. Sad.
These studies have been done in various methods over all the years and in no way is this new! Just makes a palatable story for the masses. Quit drinking and problem solved for all this B.S. where is that study?
Quit drinking, of course. The question is "are some people just bad and weak and shitty" or is it that some people were given a bad GABA hand to begin with and need to be aware that alcohol is going to be a fight for them. I for one am comforted by the fact that I'm not just a weak person....and my father was not just a weak person....and my grandfather was not just a weak person.
I am comforted by the fact that I'm not just a 'weak' person....and my father was not just a 'weak' person....and my grandfather was not just a 'weak' person.
You do mean, what role genetics? This is genuinely helpful
I bet i am weaker than you,any day of the week.
4 days no alcohol after 35 years
How are you?😊
Alcohol increases gaba and reduces glutamate, i can see why this study is right. If were over stimulated, alcohol calms you down. Good video
I THINK it's that alcohol acts LIKE GABA...so our GABA production is reduced to compensate.
What JM said. Since bodys GABA production in hybernation that's why LGlutamine he says works. Also body can break it down quickly for blood glucose and avoids insulin spike so good for avoiding insulin spike. Also repairs gut.
Just goes to show how dangerous alcohol is to the GABA system.. Thanks for the heads up Chris..
Ethanol's primary psychoactive action is on the GABA system. It basically widens the gap ending of the neuron allowing more gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) to flow through. This in turn dampens glutamate (primary excitatory neurotransmitter) making you feel calm, relaxed and lowering your overall inhibition.
accurately described; over time it hijacks the GAGA system and chaos and sometimes death occurs without intervention.
He said that the amygdala is underproductive in alcoholics. He also said that the amygdala is the seat of emotions. So a question--Can suppressing emotions during development, perhaps because of a mother who told the child things like "You shouldn't feel that way", can such suppression induce a tendency to alcoholism that in a healthier family situation wouldn't occur?
Yes, totally! Most addicts are having CPTSD from childhood trauma, neglect and abuse! Their emotional literacy is so low, and funny enough…mist of them end up drug or alcohol addicts! Great observation!
New sub here mate from ireland need your wisdom thanks 🙏❤🙏
Best video and information love heard
Was reading about gaba n amygdala years ago but couldn’t put all together
There is hope after all. As Alcoholics are far from weak!!
This information is very interesting and like finding gold..yet 5 years after this video not even 30k views.
You are spot on mate.
Ive been taking all the supplements you recommended for only two weeks and my dts have vanished.
I was having a seisure from going cold turkey a few weeks ago and your website has helped alot since.
Ive been an alcoholic for 25 years and always knew AA was not the answer.
Amazing. This was 12 months ago, how's it going? No tremors for me on today day 5 not drinking and been taking many the recommended supplements for 3 days and no craving, some mood swings though not as many as last time I tried quitting with out the supplements. Sleep better with the magnesium VitC Zinc Glutamine etc..
I went to AA and is not for me
Could the DTs have stopped with time passing alone ?
@@AWhileHanlin I was thinking the same thing tbh
NAC is the best supplement for this.
Acamprosate drastically improved my GABA/craving situation.
Hi Chris, I really admire your proactive attitude, experimentation and determination to understand and beat alcoholism. I believe all that you have invested (intellectually, psychologically, and spiritually) will effectively help people who want to quit, but just haven't treated it like a problem that needs to be solved. I have been fishin' around on the internet (for quite awhile now) for something that would give me a kick in the ass, and feel your proactive attitude, experimentation and determination is exactly what I need to treat this like a problem that needs to be solved. Thanks for all of your fantastic suggestion: I can't wait to get busy : > )
Thank you Marie!! Good luck to you!!
Chris, what I most love about your approach to beating alcoholism, is that I don't feel like I have to rely on luck, I feel like you have armed me with a plethora of weapons to shoot down this enemy. Thank you again.
Incredibly informative video. I’ve been an alcoholic since I was really young, I can’t seem to shake off this addiction. This really helps and I’m going to go buy myself Gat protein, I’m eager to see the results that has. AA hasn’t worked for me neither has rehab. Fingers crossed this will. Thanks for your video on this.
Buy GABA from amazon. Work really good. I can abuse alcohol at times. I've been taking gaba for almost a month with herbs that are good your your brain and liver(milk thistle, kudzu root etc) .gaba helps reduce my anxiety , calms me down and helps me sleep.
Get the book, Alcohol Lied to me I was to stop that day. 100 drinks per week to zero.
@@Cryptosifu that's slot. I can see why
The only thing is gonna work is God asking him to help us having the relationship with him reading his word attending a church ⛪️ I believe in this 💯 it works he removes all graving and addictions if we put the work and we want too
@@DeliaNErik It's fine to believe whatever you believe, but posting that here is just disrespectful and simply wrong. These people need real medical help and you're selfishly pedaling your unsubstantiated religious claims. Shame on you.
Good video. Makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for this content.
Thank you thank you thank you for your program! It worked for my fiancé and was money well worth spending!
Your video on the supplement Mucana was very helpful. So far it really helps with cravings.
Quality info, Chris! Thanks for everything you post!
Do you know the Sinclair Method?
Greetings from Ireland. I hope you are well. Your videos are both very informative and fascinating . These remedies have been around for years for a reason.I remember being in Cuzco and LA Paz and how chewing Coca leaves made such a difference with the altitude. Have tried l-glutamine and Dlpa and jury is still out on their efficacy. As you say, find what works for you /bio diversity. I have ordered some red kali kratom as my research and development continues 😁
I'm trying to get off Valiu/benzos. It's hell! My brain feels hyper aware of everything. Anxiety is sky high.
whoa; don't stop benzos and booze at the same time; it took me 2 years to titrate down from 2 mg off clonazepam (Canada) Klonapin in US I think; still take .5 I don't care. I'm 65 it's as low as I can go; it's almost nothing and my decision. My anxiety peaked; I did a lot of work on that; it's physiological. Take up the celtic harp!
Look up L-Theanine also
How are you now? I came off benzos last year.
Thank you for this video 🙏🏼❤️
Hi Chris. could you do a video on gait and balance recovery
Thank you. Where can I read up about this study.
Healing the body and addressing nutritional deficiencies is important. But, simply addressing the physical is an incomplete path...
I left AA, I cannot stand it anymore. I'm going to use the gym and cbt therapy. I've struggled 30 years. I'm the same with bread and sugar, I cannot only have 1 candy bar.
Thank you for this video. Current treatment for alcoholism isn't working, and I feel therapists and psychologist take away a person's self efficacy and empowerment by saying "An addict is an addict". Digging through childhood traumas, and searching for spiritual causes really in the end doesn't fully address alcoholism. From my experience, when you hit upon a truth, you can feel it working immediately which leads to hope and therefore more likely one will stick to it.
Again thanks for the epic insights!
Hey, Chris! This IS exciting news!! I hope researchers will look to people with autism. I understand they often suffer from an anxiety which is relieved by using alcohol. They need a break, imo!
We all are temporarily relieved of anxiety by using alcohol and then it gets 10 times worse. If you are concerned about autism and anxiety, read Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation.
Excellent! Thank you!
They took 20 members out of an aa meeting and the boredom factor fell dramatically.
great video!!
I'll stay away from CBD oil and suppliments after a negative results
Thank you for this video. Many, including Marc Lewis, William Porter, and Craig Beck argue against the Disease Theory of Alcoholism, however, if there is a physiological difference, then there is a disease. Could you comment?
I think he did; just watch start of video again.
I wonder if taking a GABA supplements would help? What’s your opinion on that?
Some people say that GABA will not cross the blood brain barrier, but some swear it does. You might try it.
Where is the report available????
Update?
Humans are more complex than Rats? Not in SW London they ain’t!
This sort of knowlege is WAAAY better at helping me avoid alcohol than some AA 'weakness' or 'trauma' based theory. I can't drink...NOT because of my upbringing...not because of my emotional lack of control.......but because my GABA recycling is weak. Alcohol will only make it worse. Guilt free. Move on with my life. Btw, I know this GABA thing is true, because when I started taking Acamprosate my cravings completely ended.
J M where does it in AA literature say that alcohol is caused by weakness or trauma?? Nowhere. Quite the opposite. But if you’re managing to beat alcohol addiction with ‘exercise’ and ‘getting enough sleep’ I am so very pleased for you. But you’re not the same type of alcoholic as I.
When people Bash AA, it can be argued that it is their EGO which is doing this. And the disease exists primarily in the EGO. When you let the EGO go, you can find it is much easier to fight the negative stigma and impulses to drink. People are always looking for an easy way out, but I've found that I cannot out-think the disease, and a support group is one of the best ways to get better.
AA hadn't helped me either. I'd found it very depressing. We are NOT POWERLESS and I don't believe drinking is a disease (like diabetes).
SMART Recovery does work for me.
Fit Recovery also works for me. Chris, Matt, and Tana -- Fit Recovery -- are experts at biochemical repair.
Well trauma, in childhood, cause all kind of emotional issues, like inability to actually detect what you feel, and as child you probably come up with different strategies to survive! Amygdala does store and is very much involved in the emotions, etc…so it is true, but most literature makes a bad job of explaining!
SMART recovery wouldn't work for an alcoholic, you're simply not an alcoholic.
Is there anyway I can email you?
Thank you. Where can I read up about this study? It is very informative.
Scientists cans say what the cause is for alcohol addiction..the truth is, it's emotional trauma. It's emotional. I know because that's what happened to me. But, yes. I continued to drink. Alcohol is a nasty shit hole.
I agree probably cones from childhood trauma at point when emotional development is beginning.
what brand, and how many mig of GABA do you take? Thanks in advance if you reply.@@mymouseinfestedcabin6612
Yes, but childhood trauma can either cause or exacerbate a GABA/glutamate imbalance in a brain prone to that.
CBD oil made things worse for me. But it hope it helped/helps someone else.
In what way?
D Tatah: If the cbd oil has high thc levels it is believed to be the culprit in worse anxiety. Make sure you are dealing with a supplier who is committed to providing a low thc or thc free product.
D Tatah: Make sure the company is doing 3rd party testing and not just saying it is on the label
Acamprosate fixed my cravings within 4 hours of taking my first pill.
My ex-husband, beloved and now dead, found small quantities of marijuana helpful; he was careful to smoke outside because it made me paranoid. The way things are.
The shut teach the dangers ov drinking alcohol in schools but no the encourage it to make all the Government rich
Anyone who's had an alcohol-related seizure; that would be me freaks out after the valium which mimics what alcohol does to hijack already compromised GABA receptors and slowly and painfully -- that's life, try being a navy seal, which I am not but their life is not that of a happy dolphin in a cartoon -- you get better. It's neuroplasticity that enables us to redirect neuronal pathways; not ignoring amygdala just thinking how that works. You've got a client who hates AA meetings, never met one who didn't; AA in itself could say all kinds of hooey; it's the isolation which reinforces anxiety etc. which overcoming fear of groups -- we didn't start out that way --- may be helpful. I have no opinion other than anectodal accounts from my sis etc.; some of them I thought positive; some which kept people in a state of fear -- not so good. 50/50.
Am struggling whit a acohol addition atm
Every one has different strengths and weaknesses. So have diffent gaps u have to fill with positive habits. Basic relative inexpensive supplements have got me to 5 days no drinking with next to no anxiety and poor sleep. I'd been going to the gym so easy to do a solid work out which ive done a few times this week. Early days but affects of the supplements so far giving me hope, eg sleeping well I think thanks to the magnesium, cutting sugar and using Lglutamine pre and post exercise and when get up seems to have increased appetite and no sugar or alc cravings. I had metamucile mixed with Lglutamine and creatine in water then chewed some VitC 20 minutes later was salivating whilst making a fatty breakfast to have the rest of the supplements which other sources say best absorbed with a meal containing fats.
Is anyone using the drug Gabapentin
yes!
Mother Humboldts' CBD cream used twice a day miraculously cured my alcoholism.
More miraculous, is, I did not start using the cream, whatsoever, originally, for Alcoholism.
I can't sleep without alcohol. Was this true in your case?
@@WestSyde303 Yes.. Valerian Root helps as well
@@GrassrootsLibertyBillFoster I also have a very VERY high tolerance for cannibas and find that cbd does nothing. But I will try Valerien root
English please
If there was a cure for addiction, humans would simply drink more in the belief that it’s okay.
Why not just do these test on humans?
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Thanks, these are some good reminders, there’s no question that increasing your mental clarity and boosting your drive, comes with quitting. Yes, there are many ways to kick the habit, Steffon Barkload's Quit Drinking Forever is what worked for me, best shortcut I go’ogled that took days without withdrawal.
Kudzo
what brand, and how many mg do you take? Thanks in advance if you reply.
At best you can say they have found on possible cause in rats in a lab. It cannot yet be confidently states that scientists have found the root cause in all settings. This is a good start but the test has to be replicated. Not to mention years of clinical trials on humans to test for the same. We are still a very long way off in understanding alcohol addiction.
not sure that "the root cause in all settings" is a reasonable standard for evidence.
You of course know that double blind testing on humans likely to endanger their lives is illegal almost across the globe. I'm vegan; I'm also a realist.
Wazzzzupppp Chris! I'm part of the 85%
Jesus can cure anything, there is nothing imposible for God
He chose not to heal me, my cross I guess.
@@chrisgreen3797 you have to give your life to him, and he will change how your brain works and old pattern , thoughts and behavior
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Not true, I’m afraid
Facets of rigid religions create many mental illnesses including addicton.
This study is misrepresented in this naive presentation. It was the stress that drove alcohol craving and consumption. Amygdala is the center of fight/flight/stress response and enlarges in stress animals. So, when stressed you reach for alcohol, you are a rat, but a normal rat. Correlation is NOT causation. Sad.
WHOA
These studies have been done in various methods over all the years and in no way is this new! Just makes a palatable story for the masses. Quit drinking and problem solved for all this B.S. where is that study?
Quit drinking, of course. The question is "are some people just bad and weak and shitty" or is it that some people were given a bad GABA hand to begin with and need to be aware that alcohol is going to be a fight for them. I for one am comforted by the fact that I'm not just a weak person....and my father was not just a weak person....and my grandfather was not just a weak person.
One day because what goes around comes around you will have a seizure and you will know why people can't stop without help you bastard.
Yes sorry Chris, science has no relation to addiction, it all starts in the mind..