Good News, Your Brain Heals A Lot Within 90 Days… Unless You Relapse (E210)

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Significant brain healing can happen within the first few months of being sober. Finally some good news for us, right? In this episode you’ll learn more about how alcohol damages the brain to make it harder to stay sober and how the brains of people who are able to stay sober differ from those who go on to relapse. It’s not just deciding that you’re done with drinking and that’s it. That’s what we observe other people do who aren’t addicted and then we feel like losers with no self-control when we do the same. The problem is, when you drink heavily long term it changes your brain and this makes it hard for the brain to function properly.

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Gillian Tietz, Michael Painter. Good News, Your Brain Heals A Lot Within 90 Days… Unless You Relapse (E210). Sober Powered. 2024

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Sources

  1. Mueller & Meyerhoff. 2019. The gray matter structural connectome and its relationship to alcohol relapse: Reconnecting for recovery. Addiction Biology. 

  2. Makris, N. Decreased Volume of the Brain Reward System in Alcoholism. Biol Psychiatry. 2009

Gillian Tietz

Gillian Tietz is the host of the Sober Powered podcast and recently left her career as a biochemist to create Sober Powered Media, LLC. When she quit drinking in 2019, she dedicated herself to learning about alcohol's influence on the brain and how it can cause addiction. Today, she educates and empowers others to assess their relationship with alcohol. Gill is the owner of the Sober Powered Media Podcast Network, which is the first network of top sober podcasts.

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