So you’re in your 30s, and you’ve just been through a pandemic and a lockdown. You’ve been through rising gas prices, and you might be dealing with some of these things. Like, maybe it’s time to start thinking about quitting smoking. Or maybe it’s time to start thinking about having a family, or how the heck am I going to support the family that I’ve got? How am I going to learn how to be a good husband? What does long term relationship look like? And how in the world am I going to pay for all of this?

All of these are some of the stresses that can contribute to excessive stress, anxiety. And America’s favorite remedy for those is alcohol. It’s interesting, because alcohol actually kills more people than opioids and prescription painkillers. But we don’t advertise it in the same way, primarily because our lawmakers like their drinks.

So before COVID-19, more than 25% of American adults admitted binge drinking at times. In the first week of lockdowns though, sales of alcohol jumped 54% over previous years, and we didn’t just take that alcohol and put it on the shelf. We drank it, and we kept drinking it. As we fight one pandemic, we’ve got another one coming. And that’s the health pandemic that happened as a result of the poor health choices that we all made during lockdown time.

If a couple has gone from sharing a bottle of wine, they’ve now gone for a dinner a couple times a week, they’ve now gone to buying a box of wine and having a drink or two, or three every day. This is particularly hard on the body long term, because even moderate drinking increases the risks of high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease, cancer, and liver disease.

Most people with alcohol related ailments are not alcohol dependent. And by the way, one thing they don’t tell you about those high blood pressure medications is that they cause erectile dysfunction. Most of my gentlemen clients don’t figure that out, until three to five years down the road. It’s a lot harder to reverse it then.

Every year, close to 10,000 Americans die of alcohol related causes, whether from slow burning diseases or split-second car crashes, making it the third largest cause of preventable deaths. Only tobacco and poor diet and exercise, beat it. Right now you have the opportunity to change the game and to get back in control of your health, and get back in the driver’s seat, and I’d love to help you.