54. What Alcohol Is Really Doing to Your Health: The Alcohol-Hormone Connection with Dr. Brooke Scheller (The Hormone Disconnect Series Episode 5)

Thank you, Brandy.

I'm so happy to be here.

And I'm so happy that you're covering this topic, especially as part of your hormone series.

Yes, I for one have noticed that I have had a huge shift in my relationship with alcohol.

And it's something that I also work through and talk through with my clients as well.

So I'd love to start off by hearing a little bit more about your journey, how you became involved in functional sobriety and how nutrition plays a role in that.

Yeah, well, thank you for That introduction.

And again, thank you for bringing this topic to your audience because it's so important.

And when I started doing this work a little over four years ago, I was really fascinated that alcohol wasn't more part of the discussion.

I received my doctorate degree after about 10 years training in nutrition in 2019.

And in 2021, I decided to quit drinking.

And by deciding to quit drinking, I mean, I hit a point in my life where alcohol had become problematic and had been problematic for some time.

And I really went into a state where I had to get sober.

And this isn't necessarily the experience that everyone has.

We all have a range of intake and how healthy or unhealthy that relationship is with alcohol.

For me, full sobriety was what worked for me

and continues to work for me.

But as I mentioned, I was a doctor of nutrition prior to going through my sober experience.

And when I first started following sober people on Instagram, started kind of getting into more of the alcohol-free discussion space, which by the way, if you're listening and you don't know, there's a huge alcohol-free movement happening on Instagram and TikTok.

And I went through it unsubscribed from all of the accounts that were glamorizing hangovers.

And I went through and started following people who were talking about the positive benefits of sobriety.

And there was so much amazing content, a lot about mental health and tools and strategies that we can use to support this.

But my background is I'm a scientist.

I look at this and I go, but why, why is it that I am someone that had such an attachment to alcohol? And I have a close friend over here who can sit with a glass and take a couple of sips and not think twice about it.

And I decided to go down this rabbit hole of research to really understand more about the physiology.