Your Thanksgiving Recovery Plan

Feel clearer, calmer and more energised within hours

A simple, supportive video to help your body bounce back quickly after a big meal or a night of drinking.

This time of year can feel heavy on the body. Big meals, sugar, stress, late nights, alcohol, and a routine that gets completely disrupted. The good news is this: your body responds quickly when you give it the right support.

To help you through the next few days, I want to share one of my private Alkaline Life Club coaching videos. It is normally only available to members, but it is perfect for moments like this and will guide you through the exact steps to reset and feel better fast.

In this short video I walk you through:

• why even small amounts of alcohol create dehydration, inflammation and fatigue

• how to support your liver, kidneys and digestion before and after a heavy meal

• the easiest ways to reduce nausea, bloating and next day fog

• the steps you can take tonight and tomorrow morning to feel noticeably better

Everything is simple, practical and doable. No perfection needed.

Video Transcript

[Ross Speaking] Alright, so there’s a couple of tacticals, there’s a couple of tacticals. So let’s get into the, let’s get into the hangover stuff because calling it a hangover prevention is kind of a bit of a and sexy way of naming, I guess It’s basically damage li limitation of alcohol. So alcohol consumption may go up during this month first. What a great win.

Melissa, I hope you share that in the wins discussion in the Facebook group. Everybody get in there and share your wins no matter how small. This is a very, very, very important thing to do as we get towards the end of the coaching program. And don’t forget all you guys, you’ve got access to me. You’ve got access to the the group,

the Facebook group, and the portal for the rest of the year. And I’ll probably throw in a few little q and As and videos as we go along as well. But don’t think this is the end. That community that we’ve built, you guys is so strong and we’ll keep this going. Really, really important. So yes, alcohol consumption may go up a little bit and there’s probably four or five things that happen in the body when we consume alcohol and we need to do things to help address them.

And if we do those things that impacts, we can greatly limit the impacts of the alcohol consumption. So the first thing that alcohol does is it suppresses a hormone that’s created in the petry gland called vasopressin. So vasopressin is your antidiuretic hormone a DH, and it’s responsible for basically telling you you need to go to the toilet and do a we. So when you consume alcohol it suppresses vasopressin,

which means you need to go to the toilet all the time. Even though you are only consuming this much liquid in the form of alcohol, you are peeing out this much liquid. Hence the dehydration effect of alcohol. That’s number one. Number two is obviously the alcohol converts to sugar spikes your blood sugars, creates loads of inflammation, suppresses your immune system,

creates loads of uric acid and lactic acid buildup. Insulin spike hurts your liver, hurts your pancreas, but we can limit the impact of the blood sugar spike and we’ll get onto that in just a moment. There’s also two types of toxins in alcohol that have a really big impact. One are called congeners of alcohol. They are the things that typically lead to the sort of the following day.

And then there’s acetaldehyde, which leads to the headachey type of impacts and liver and kidney stress. So we need to address both those forms. Oh and also there’s the glutamine rebound. So when your body’s processing alcohol, this is what disrupts your sleep and causes your YouTube basically. Even though you might stop drinking at nine o’clock at night and then be dead to the well till eight o’clock in the morning and getting 11 hours of sleep,

that’s never happens to me my whole life, no matter what time or how much alcohol I may have consumed in my life and then gone to bed at whatever ungodly hour, I still wake up at the crack of dawn ready for the day feeling terrible regardless. I never sleep longer. I dunno if any of you guys have that curse as well. However,

so the glutamine rebound means that we basically don’t get any restful level of sleep. The qua quantity may be long, but the quality goes down to practically zero. I have a friend who loves tracking his body and also loves alcohol and he regularly shows me the his phone with his whoop band readings from when he is had a big night out. And it’s basically you got zero hours of restful sleep well done.

So there’s some simple steps before we go out during the event, after we get home to help if whether it’s, and this is the thing, I know that a bunch of you on here might just be thinking I can zone out now because I don’t really drink that much. I only have a couple of glasses and I don’t go on big benders, that’s for sure.

However, a single unit of alcohol can completely wreck your sleep. Two units, three units, four units. When you are at your friend’s place for dinner and they’re pouring you a glass of wine, I assure you that is not one unit of wine that is going into that glass. It’s usually, there was a study done on this and it was something Chuck and it was,

it was something like 2.6 units that are typically poured when we are not using a measure. And then when people do get a wine measure out and use it, they’re like, is that it? Like is that, is that a glass of wine? So, so things we need to do. So before we go out super hydration, really important. We are not just talking about the half an hour before we are talking 48 hours before you go out.

You need to make sure you’re super hydrated hitting that a hundred to 120 ounces a day for at least four hours before. I know you guys are all over this so I don’t need to worry about that. I know you’ve already got that one. Smashed coconut oil. Ramp up your coconut oil for the couple of days before the event as well. Coconut oil will do the job of stabilizing your blood sugar from the alcohol spikes.

Really, really important. It also is really anti-inflammatory. It supports the impacts of the excess blood sugars on your digestive bacterial balance and will provide your body with a really stable source of energy the following day as well. So it’s really important, again, in two days before you ramp up your coconut oil intake to maybe two table springs a day for those two days from the usual one.

So, but two a day is really, really important before you go out as well. The day before, you can do this for the few hours before, but try and boost your glutathione levels. Consuming loads of avocado, which directly contains glutathione, but also sulfur containing foods like cruciferous veggies, garlic leaks, obviously broccoli and cauliflower and those sorts of things.

It contains loads of vitamin C as well. But the glutathione is really, really important to prevent the, the toxicity of the acetaldehyde and it also helps to regulate that VA suppressive. So glutathione before you go out, really important you can take a glutathione supplement, but if you have some avocado on sprouted brain, sprouted brain, that’d be weird, but I’m sure someone’s done it somewhere.

Sprouted grain toast. That would be really, really a a, a great option. Consuming a couple of Brazil nuts that day. Increasing your selenium intake, again, you can take supplement vitamin B really important and turmeric. Make sure you take some turmeric before you go out to help counteract the inflammation from the, from the alcohol processing Exercise actually also helps when you produce a TP.

This is one of the building blocks that helps produce glutathione in the body as well and convert both sulfur containing foods into glutathione. Avocado contains it naturally. The sulfur. Sulfur is like the main component that the body needs to create. Go on exercise, greases the chute so to speak. Ideally have a green drink, whether it’s a powdered green drink or a green juice.

You will see on the shelves very expensive hangover prevention products. They’re usually tablets, capsules or something effervescent. You put in water. I’m sure you guys have seen those. They’re basically just alkaline minerals and you can get those from just having a green drink and or taking an alkaline mineral supplement. It always aforementioned friend who I’m gonna be catching up with on Friday and I’m gonna be telling him he,

he was mentioned several times on our session when we were talking about hangovers. He’s often posting me these pictures of these products going, do you think this will work? Do you think this will work? Do you think this will work? And it’s like, mate, it’s just minerals. It’s just Alkaline minerals. It’s usually like some sodium, some potassium and some magnesium in a sugary pill.

Like just have the sodium, magnesium, potassium. You can even just have some sodium bicarbonate and water. So getting on Aline Minerals before, go during the event, keep rehydrating. Every time you have an alcoholic drink, have a glass of water. It’s really straightforward, it’s really simple and it works as much as everything else combined. So many of the issues come from the dehydration.

Take some supplements out with you. I know this sounds really dorky, but with each alcoholic drink, have a vitamin C capsule, have a curing capsule, have a broccoli sprouts capsule at some point during the night. Again, it works like magic. And then the last step is to increase the time between your final drink and your head. Hitting the pillow to as long as possible,

as much as your body can do during the waking hours while it’s utilizing glucose as a source of energy is really important. When you go to sleep, your body tends to flip from using glucose to using fat as an energy source ’cause it wants to low energy production, low level energy expenditure and shut down loads of processes. So as much as you can do while you’re awake is important and while you’re awake,

you’re typically moving around, which is helping with the blood sugar mopping up as well the next day. Starting your day with water salt and a green drink. Really, really important. Something that I would recommend if you’re the sort of person that gets nausea when they have a bit of a hangover, if nausea is your thing, this is, you are going to be so glad you bought this program just for this tip.

And here it comes. Aussies will know this product. It will be exist in other countries as well under different names. But traveler calm, it’s a natural motion sickness product that’s basically just ginger. They do a, they do a pharmaceutical one as well, but that’s awful for you. But their natural one is simply dried ginger root, powdered dried ginger root in a compressed together into a tablet.

A serve of that which works by the way, I get really bad motion sickness, particularly on boats. I do not have sea legs. I was born in Northampton. We are equidistant from all coasts of the uk. We are the furthest point away from every coast. It’s why we are the industrial heart of the uk and I get really bad sea sickness.

These work for it. However, upon further inspection, they are merely 400 milligrams of ginger per cap, well per serve, two capsules. You can get a powdered ginger supplement for digestion. I will put a link to it in the show notes. Half the, the recommended dosage of this is like a teaspoon. A teaspoon would be around what? 5,000 milligrams in weight.

And this product is a hundred percent dry ginger, half a teaspoon, so around two and a half thousand is four, five times more volume than this travel car product that works. Have this. When you wake up, have it again after you’ve had breakfast, you are nausea will disappear and you can have it again later if you’re still feeling nauseous. But it will work dramatically well.

It’s also ridiculously good for your digestion. Ridiculously anti-inflammatory. It’s alkaline. It’s so good for you. If you are starting your next day with an alkaline mineral supplement or just sodium bicarbonate in water, lots of extra hydration, a green drink, and the ginger in water as well, you are gonna be feeling absolutely fine. You are gonna be stopping the issues associated with vasopressin ace.

How to acetaldehyde the the glutamine, rebound. The congeners of alcohol, the blood sugar disruption, the loss of sleep, the dehydration. You’re gonna be nursing your liver, you’re gonna be nursing your kidneys, your digestion, you’re gonna be removing the inflammation. It all makes sense.

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Take care of yourself today. A few simple steps can make a big difference in how you feel tomorrow.

Ross