 Alcohol poisoning, how to avoid it and how to cure it. If you are struggling right now or there's a friend who's struggling and you suspect it's alcohol poisoning, we're gonna talk about how you should handle it and how to avoid it in the future. But first you may wanna get my free book, The 30 Day No Alcohol Challenge, How to Reduce or Quit Alcohol. There's a little link down in the about section and just here, it's completely free. You might just wanna reduce or quit alcohol ongoing if you're watching this. So I suffered alcohol poisoning back in 1999. I was in Jamaica, I was at, no I wasn't, I was in Trinidad and Tobago, sorry, the port of Spain. And I was watching cricket between Australia and the West Indies and I was drinking in the sun all day. And at night time, I started to get really cold and I started to shiver and I started to hallucinate and my friends found me lying on my back in this hotel room that we were staying in and I was, and I was delirious, I wasn't making sense. And they quickly grabbed a doctor who said we need to take him to hospital and I went off to this hospital in the port of Spain where some big fat woman sort of injected me in my ass cheek with something, I still don't know what it was and they put me on a drip and they started giving me water or fluids rather and I slowly came back to life. Pretty scary, pretty horrific. The next day I didn't drink alcohol, even though all my friends were drinking alcohol again in the sun watching the sport, but it's pretty nasty and if you suspect that you have alcohol poisoning or a friend has it and they're hallucinating, they're going crazy, please call a doctor, please call a medical professional, obviously. A lot of people, however, think they have alcohol poisoning but really they're just really hungover or they're vomiting and they're sweating and so let's just quickly go through the ways to avoid it and then we're gonna deal with what you should do. So avoiding it simply is if you're gonna drink a lot, drink a lot of water, you gotta hydrate yourself. What I like to do is for every alcoholic drink I have, I drink a glass of water. Try not to chug drinks or like, you know, skull. When I played Rugby for Los Angeles Rugby Club, if I was unfortunate enough to win the most valuable player, my reward was back in the bar after the game, they would make you go chug, chug, chug and I'd have to like drink a whole big pitcher of Budweiser and then later on, about an hour later I was vomiting in the gutter while they were all laughing. That's not much fun, I gotta tell you. So avoid chugging. You could always pick drinks with low alcohol as well. Like if you know you're gonna be drinking a lot in the sun or at a party, drink a mid-strength beer or something with less of an alcoholic content into it. Stick to a drinking plan. Just know in your head how many you're going to drink or how many you wanna drink that night so you don't get into the point where you're drinking too much to get alcohol poisoning in the first place. Make some drinks non-alcoholic. Pretty simple. You don't have to drink Bloody Mary's, right? You can drink Virgin Mary's. Tastes kind of similar. You just have it without the vodka. You can drink non-alcoholic beers if you really want the taste. And also don't drink on an empty stomach. That's the worst thing. Like make sure you've eaten some foods before you know you're gonna be drinking excessively. So there's some tips on how to avoid getting alcohol poisoning. Again, might wanna check out my book, The 30-Day No Alcohol Challenge, How to Reduce or Quit Drinking is the name of the book. There's a link in the about section. Now, if you suspect you have alcohol poisoning or a friend has, then here are some of the symptoms. You might be like breathing heavily, you might be hallucinating, you're sweating, you've got the shivers. Again, go and see a doctor, but if you're just really hungover, here are some ways that you can fix this, okay? Drink lots of water. Lots of water, okay? Because when you have alcohol poisoning or you're suffering from the effects of alcohol, you're dehydrated and your body is inflamed. I know it sounds obvious, but drink lots of water. Do not drink coffee, do not, in fact, I've got a list prepared here of what you should do, which I prepared before I hit record on this. Do not go and have a greasy breakfast, do not drink coffee, coffee is a diuretic and so it dehydrates you even more. You wanna drink lots of water, okay? So if you're gonna make yourself a hangover drink, what you wanna say yes to is anything that has coconut water, blueberries, spinach, ginger, mint, chia seeds, and a little bit of salt. If you put all that together into a smoothie, man, that is gonna taste good, plus it's going to reduce the inflammation that's going on in your body. Not only are you dehydrated, but you've got inflammation. These ingredients here are all anti-inflammatory, so they reduce, they naturally reduce the inflammation that's going on in your body. What most people think they should do to get over being hungover is have a greasy breakfast, have a coffee, and drink sugary waters like Gatorade. The problem with Gatorade is that it's got a lot of sugar in it and it's not good for you. Coffee is a diuretic and it will make you even more dehydrated and a greasy breakfast that means the body is now having to work hard to break down all those nasty fats and carbs and everything when you really want the body to be restoring itself from the alcohol that you've been feeding it. Again, avoid the greasy breakfast, avoid the coffee, avoid the Gatorade, get lots and lots of water into yourself, coconut water, blueberries, spinach, ginger, mint, chia seeds, and a little bit of salt just for flavor. You don't need the salt, but this stuff here will really start to bring your body back to life. If you're really in a lot of trouble and don't lie on your back, it's better to kind of lie on your side, rather. If you're with someone now who you think has alcoholic poisoning, put them on their side. The reason is if they're on their back and they're like struggling, they might vomit and they might choke on their own vomit. I mean, that's an extreme case, but so that you avoid that, put them on their side. But mostly, just in future, if you're watching this for future drinking, don't go and drink so hard. I was a social drinker, I drank for a few times during the week and during the weekends, I'd go out and I'd be a binge drinker. I'd drink heavily and some weekends I'd get drunk and some weekends I'd throw up. I took a 30-day break from alcohol back in 2010 just because I was sick and tired of being hungover and at the end of 30 days, I lost 30 pounds, I'm sorry, 13 pounds, I should say, 30 pounds, that'd be miraculous. My skin got better, I slept better, I started to get more energy and focus and clarity and I felt so good, I just kept going. I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since. So I haven't drunk alcohol since 2010 and my life is just so much better and more energetic and better relationships because of it. So again, if you wanna just get my free book, it's called the 30-day No Alcohol Challenge, How to Reduce or Quit Alcohol, click the link in the bio below or click the little link that I've got here and try to avoid alcohol poisoning in the future. All right, I hope this helped and I'll catch you on the next one.