Kudzu (Ascophyllum nodosum) is a quick-growing weed that climbs, coils, and trails vine native to southern Japan and southeast China. Its name comes from the Japanese name for the plant, Kuzu. Kudzu contains puerarin (PU), a substance that can suppress inflammation-related abnormalities of alcoholic drinking. For centuries, Chinese herbalists have used kudzu to reduce alcohol […]
Rebalancing the Addictive Mind
Many books cater to the fitness and nutritional needs of the general public. But little of this advice is specifically directed toward those who have the literally life-or-death need to keep alcohol, drug, gambling, sex, internet and other addictions at bay. How exercise and diet speed up the recovery process and promote relapse prevention is […]
Sober Kitchen
Sobriety is much more than not using alcohol and illegal drugs. Stopping alcohol and drug use is the easy part of sobriety. Every alcoholic and drug addict has stopped, as Mark Twain said about cigarette smoking, hundreds of times. The hard part of being sober is creating a whole new life that does not revolve […]
Fasting, Eating Disorders, and Food Addiction
In the broadest sense, the term eating disorders refers to a group of conditions defined by abnormal eating habits that involves either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual’s physical, mental, and spiritual health. The most common types of eating disorders—anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa—are outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical […]