Saw a post elsewhere about alcohol abuse and microdosing - and thought it echoed a lot of what me and some others have been experiencing this year.
I wasn’t a big drinker but have lost people to it - this was a post today from someone who was an alcoholic.
I was a pretty heavy drinker and I started microdosing primarily for the mental health and clarity improvements… and for me one of the side effects I found out has been a reduced appetite for alcohol.
The mushrooms have allowed me to listen to my body more and alcohol is something I no longer feel I need to consume regularly.
I now usually consume it on special occasions (birthday parties, weddings, celebrations or fancy dinner outings… and I never drink alone) I think I average about 1 drink a week but I’ll sometimes go an entire month without.
I’ve never intentionally taken them when I have alcohol cravings, I microdosed 3 days a week and the cravings just naturally curbed themselves , it’s been a huge improvement to treat my alcoholism.
Using alcohol to cope is evil
That’s a big difference compared to the line that AA / most doctors use where where you have to totally abstain to avoid decline / eventual death.
When we were in a hospital with a relative about to pass, the specialist doctors said in the field of recovering from alcoholism - all we know for patients is that once an ‘invisible switch’ is flipped at X amount of years into heavy drinking, people can’t turn that switch off and reverse the addiction - they have to abstain for life in order to get their life back.
Whilst abstaining still may need to happen generally - it would seem microdosing makes this more of a possibility / easy leg up to get off alcohol.
I would imagine you’d need to stick to 1 day on 2 days off as a maximum for months (or to make it easier to remember stick to Sundays and Wednesdays like some of us) to keep on the safe side - you aren’t going to get this result just from doing one microdose.
