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you may already know but dry January is
when you go 30 days without any alcohol
assuming that you drink alcohol in the
first place it's probably a good time
for a reset especially after all the
celebrations of the holidays it started
about 10 years ago in the UK but it's
really caught a lot of traction here in
the US and I know that myself and
Elizabeth we are definitely participants
in dry January in this video we're going
to go over five very important reasons
why you should consider going dry as
well in January especially if you're
over the age of 50 like Elizabeth and I
are make sure you keep watching because
at the end of the video I'm going to go
over three Pro tips to help you maintain
your challenge of dry January but first
a shout out to my Seahawks they need a
little help getting into the playoffs go
Hawks hello everyone welcome to the
channel Ed du physical therapist from
integrated physical therapy in
Bellingham Washington the first reason
to go dry in January is to get better
quality sleep now at 55 I know that
sometimes sleep is a little bit of an
adventure and so I'm going to try to do
everything that I can to get a good
night sleep and so alcohol is a
depressant so may make you feel a bit
drowsy and you think it helps you fall
asleep but the quality of sleep that you
get with alcohol isn't nearly as great
and it's very fragmented so you may
think that you're sleeping better but
you're really not and it can make things
like sleep apnea worse reason number two
weight management almost all my clients
that go dry in the month of January as a
side effect and sometimes positive they
end up losing weight because so so many
times alcoholic drinks are kind of high
caloric so if you want a quick and easy
way to drop a few holiday pounds not
drinking alcohol is a good way to go
about it third reason to go dry is
really important because unfortunately
alcohol has been associated with many
chronic increases in cancer breast
cancer colorectal cancer liver cancer
and even head and neck cancers so
stopping alcohol for 30 days is a great
way to reduce your overall risk of
cancer and then hopefully when February
rolls around you're not drinking as much
and you're taking care of your overall
health number four alcohol through a
Cascade of events increases inflammation
so that joint pain that you're having
you might not think that the couple
beers that you're having has anything to
do with that but alcohol especially over
chronic exposure can increase
inflammation and remember that many
long-term diseases that we get
especially into our sixth and seventh
decade are a result of chronic
inflammation like diab I abetes and
cardiovascular disease and finally the
fifth reason to go dry in January is to
save money oh my God it's so expensive
now anytime you go out you have a couple
drinks you have dinner it is so
expensive so save yourself some money go
dry in January now let's talk about
three tips that are going to help you
meet your goal of being dry in January
number one find Alternatives ahead of
time so for example the guys and I like
to play a little poker so I I love ipas
so what I've been doing is taking the
non-alcoholic IPA athletic Brew it's
pretty good another thing that we do too
is Elizabeth and I will sometimes if we
want a mixed drink kind of feel is we'll
take sparkling water and we'll put a few
drops of bitters in here this one here
is a grapefruit bitter and it kind of
gives you that same cocktail kind of
feel without the alcohol the next thing
you have to do is get all the alcohol
out of the
house you don't want it in your cabinet
so that every time you open up your
cabinet you're tempted to have alcohol
take it all get it out of the house put
it in the garage but get it out of
eyesight and the last tip I have for you
is to tell your family and friends what
your plans are for the month of January
if you use social media put it out on
your Facebook page and let everybody
know that you're going dry for the month
and so rather than having to answer
question after question this way you
might even get some support from your
family and friends and help you and not
tempt you in your Endeavor to go dry in
the month of January if you're over 50
and you want to join our Facebook group
like healthy living and learn more about
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Health rated I'll put a link down below
and we'll see you on the inside thank
you very much for watching if you found
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the next video and root for the Seahawks
in the playoffs
