5 Warning Signs Alcohol Is SLOWLY Killing You

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
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So the very first sign camedown to my health and I'll get
into the specifics in a second.
But for me and my journey,there were worsening health
problems and things were gettingpretty bad.
Now, if we've not met yet, myname is Leon Sylvester.
I'm the founder of SoberClear,which is a company that helps
people stop drinking alcohol.
We use this totally new methodwhere we help people reframe the

(00:42):
way they view alcohol.
Then we use coaching to reallyfocus on the future.
But I drank myself for the bestpart of 10 years and my
intention with making this videotoday is not for me to make you
go and think about all the badthings you've done, and I don't
want to try and do scare tacticsor anything weird.
I mean, if scare tactics helppeople stop drinking alcohol,
all we need to do is go and readone textbook on alcohol and
nobody would drink.

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But it's not that simple.
So my intention today is toreally share some pretty
personal stuff.
This will be a pretty hardvideo for me to make, but my
intention is for you to reflecton how alcohol plays a role in
you and your life.
So if you've already stoppeddrinking alcohol, if you're
thinking of stopping, if you'retrying to stop and failing and
finding it hard, my intentionwith sharing this stuff is not

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for me to make you feel bad.
It's really just to help youreflect on your situation.
So back to the first point Now.
Despite stopping drinking in my20s pretty early on, compared to
most people, the healthproblems they started popping up
pretty quickly Now, being ayounger man.
They weren't severe, like livercirrhosis or anything that was
super dramatic, but they wereacute health problems.

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Sure, there was a lack ofenergy.
There was super dramatic, butthey were acute health problems.
Sure, there was a lack ofenergy, there was brain fog and
this would all be classed ashealth issues.
But one of the scariest thingsthat ever happened to me was
when I threw up blood on acomputer and I've told this
story a hundred times but it'sso impactful that it scared the
living daylights out of me.
But I need to tell you thewhole story so you can
understand what happened next,to understand why this alone

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wasn't even enough to get me tostop drinking.
So long story short is Iremember waking up.
I basically saw my computer.
I'd vomited blood on it in thenight.
I had no recollection of thenight.
I just woke up with this totalmemory loss and I remember
looking at this computer just inutter disbelief and I was like
no way, basically drank on anempty stomach.
I went out totally alone into acity it's called Cardiff, it's

(02:27):
in Wales just binge drinking onmy own in the middle of a city.
That's a pretty rough city witha lot of violence and fighting.
Honestly, when I think back tothat place, that was a wild city
.
But anyway, I was living rightin the middle of the city and I
go out on this mad binge andwake up with no recollection,
with this blood on this computer.
And that morning was one of thescariest mornings of my life.
I thought, wow, have thingsreally got this far?

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And it scared me so much that Istopped drinking.
I just was like whoa, I can't,I'm going to die, like I
seriously didn't know what to doand I stopped with nothing
other than willpower.
And that willpower and thatpain got me sober, no question
about it, but it didn't last.
It lasted 7, 8, 9 months Ican't even remember the dates, I
don't know the dates, I've notkept track of everything like

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that but that pain wasn't enoughto get me fully sober.
I ended up drinking again, andfor those of you that have
watched the channel for a while,you know this story.
But I went to a New Year's Eveparty.
I had this idea of having justone drink, had a drink boom six
months later, destroyed my lifeagain and the cycle repeated.
That was all until seven yearsago, when I had reframed the way
I viewed alcohol and, like alight bulb switch, I just never

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drank again.
But anyway, that's not the topicof this video.
If you want more information onhow that works, there's some
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If you click those, you can putin your name and email address.
You can watch some videotrainings that shows you more
about that reframing process.
That's what I help people do.
That's what my company helpspeople do.
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But that's not what we're goingto get into now.
If you want information on that, click the link down below.

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But this is the first thing Iwant you to reflect on what's
happening to your health themore that you drink.
A lot of people like to burythis idea.
They like to think, well,there's nothing happening on the
surface.
But maybe you should go and geta liver panel done, maybe you
should go and get some bloodwork done.
Maybe you should go andactually see what's going on on
the inside.
And I think that's one of theproblems with alcohol.
Is that okay?
Sure, maybe you know, for heavydrinkers they can get some

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redness in the face, there canbe some physical symptoms for
extremely heavy drinkers, butunless you get something like
throwing up blood on a computerto scare the living daylights
out of you, the health problemscan be quiet because it's all
going on internally.
You don't really see fattyliver, you don't really see the
damage that's happening.
You don't really see that thechance of cancer is increasing

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every drink that you take, and Ihave no doubt about it.
And listen, if alcohol was thething that finished me off, I
mean that would have been onenasty, nasty death.
I've had people in my familythat have died from alcoholism
and it is an absolute tragedy.
And this is no joke.
This is not something to messaround with and I'm just hoping

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that by me sharing that prettynasty story with you is that it
encourages you to go and lookinto this deeper.
Anyway, let's get into thesecond point Now.
The second thing that startedshowing up in my life were these
blackouts, and these startedhappening more and more
frequently.
I know not everybody sufferswith this, but I'd often wake up
the day after with norecollection of conversations.
Sometimes I'd have norecollection of getting home at
night, and this was becomingcommon.

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Now one of the scariest thingsis that it used to happen when I
went on like a big binge and Iknow not everyone's going to
relate to this, but for me thiswas such a major sign but it
started happening when I drankless, like I might only have I
don't know three or four drinks,and then somebody would tell me
something the next day and Ihad no recollection of it.
This isn't scary.
It's terrifying because youhave no awareness of what's

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going on.
A lot of the times when I drank, I'd be out of my house.
I didn't really drink at home,I would go out into bars, I'd go
out into pubs or whatever.
I'm English, they can be somepretty dangerous environments to
be totally unaware of yoursurroundings in, especially if
you start, you know, gettingdrunk and getting into some sort
of argument, but anyway,another sign that things were on
the totally wrong trajectory.

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The third sign that alcohol wasgoing to do some serious damage
were the insane life decisionsthat I used to make after
drinking and honestly, I don'teven know whether to share this,
but I'm going to do it anyway.
I remember getting so drunk atmy grandad's funeral God, I
don't even know whether, to sayit Honestly, it's one of the
most shameful things I ever did.
But I was so drunk that I askedone of his family members the

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grandad that's passed away,bless his soul.
I asked if she wanted to go andfind drugs, like what the heck.
And I know that's notnecessarily a decision that was
going to lead to my ruin, but Imean the decisions that I would
make under the influence.
There are others and I don'tthink I could share them.
Honestly, I don't want to gothere, but it wasn't necessarily
always these big, wilddecisions.
It was decisions on speaking topeople a certain way, people

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that I loved, people that Icared about If I had a few
drinks in me.
You know I would make thesedecisions to talk to them and
treat them how they should notbe treated Family members,
romantic relationships I mean itwasn't good.
I think I've told this story ahandful of times, but you know,
I remember just gettingabsolutely out of my face in the
middle of Colombia, like whatthe heck was I thinking?
Listen, was that the alcohol?
Was that me just being a stupid20-year-old, I don't know?

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But I would get totally,totally out of my head in the
middle of Colombia, in themiddle of a city that's known
for kidnapping and violence.
And I just think back and I'mlike what was I thinking?
And I know that those extremeexamples might not make sense,
but maybe just take a moment toreflect on the decisions that
you make under the influence.
Maybe it's not so dramatic, butwere they good decisions?
Do you make good qualitydecisions under the influence?

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Are you able to communicatewell with the people that you
love?
Now this leads me to the fourthpoint.
The fourth sign is down to myfinancial life.
So what basically happenedafter I'd thrown up blood on
this computer is I built apersonal training business, and
this was actually while I was afull-time student.
I felt so good when I wasn'tdrinking is that I was running a
full-time personal trainingbusiness while also being a

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full-time student.
I was on fire.
I just couldn't stop.
But I ended up having that justone drink for the thousandth
time and after six months of notdrinking alcohol, my financial
life had just gone downhill.
It got to a point where I wasstaying at a friend's place.
He was on holiday, he's a vicarand he let me live in his
property while he was away inAmerica.
Because I had no money.
I remember calling my familyborrowing money.

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I had to go and get a job in arestaurant to rebuild some cash
reserves and that's when Ifinally stopped drinking seven
years ago.
But that story might not be like100% relevant to you, but one
of the things is that there wasthis lack of care and whilst you
might not have got that badright where you're at ground
zero with your financial life,it might be worth considering
what alcohol is doing to yourearning potential.

(08:29):
Are you really doing the bestyou can in your financial life?
I know for me that if I keptdrinking alcohol, oh who knows
what would have happened.
But just play it out.
If you keep drinking for thenext 10, 20 years, what will
happen to your finances?
What will happen to your career?
What will happen to yourbusiness?
Will you still have a career?
Will you still have a business?
Will you just keep coasting?
Because when you stop drinking,that's when things can just get

(08:49):
to the next level.
It's awesome.
So many of the people that I'veworked with have had promotions
.
They've doubled their business.
They've done so many amazingthings with their financial life
.
Because making money is not justabout you.
It's about what that money doesfor the people around you.
It's about the value that youcreate.
And that's the world we live in.
You know America I mean, it'scapitalist, so is most of Europe
, kind of.

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But we live in a world wherefinances are important.
When you don't drink alcohol,you're able to add value in the
world with your career, withyour business, with whatever it
is that you're doing, and youcan use those financial
resources to help everybodyaround you.
And the fifth thing that alcoholwas doing is that it was
killing me, not just physically,not just emotionally, not just
mentally.
It was killing this version ofme right now.

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I could never have become who Iam today when I was drinking.
No way in hell and I'm notsaying that to sound superior or
anything like that.
What I'm trying to say is thatalcohol was killing the version
of me that I could have become.
It was killing my potential inlife.
See, my biggest fear is that Iget to my deathbed and I look
back at my life and, you know,my biggest fear is that nobody's

(09:51):
there, because I've drank somuch that I've just destroyed
all my relationships.
But my biggest fear is lookingback and feeling regret, feeling
like I could have done more.
And when I drank alcohol, thatversion of me was dead.
The person that was reachingfor their potential, that was
trying to peak, didn't existwhen I drank.
And that's the best thingyou've got to look forward to.
When you stop drinking alcohol,you feel more confident, you
feel more happy and you feel incontrol of your future, because

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every day that you keep drinkingalcohol is another day that you
let alcohol dictate your life,dictate your decisions and
dictate your future.
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