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Often people use substances because of pain and trying to escape feeling alone.
However, if you haven’t developed other tools for dealing with discomfort, pain, or difficulty, then even if you stop one substance, it will pop up in another way - be it alcohol or opiates.
If you haven’t built up enough support within yourself, then you will often start using a different substance or develop a process addiction like gambling.
Like the game whack a mole. You hit one mole, but it pops up in another spot. You target one addiction, but it pops up again in another area.
If you start to give the brain what it needs: food, nutrients, tools for coping with discomfort and difficulty, then you won’t feel the need to substitute one substance for another and recovery becomes longer lasting. That’s exactly what I believe in.

It’s been a while, so I wanted to do a post to introduce myself to you and share my story.

I got up and went to the gym and while I was stretching, I started to remember and feel grateful for how far I’ve come. I’m a doctor with a successful practice. I help patients with preventing and recovering from complex chronic diseases and addiction without shame and judgment.

In my 20s, I had back pain that lasted a few years after a car accident. It was a 6 car pile up on a Los Angeles freeway. I had back pain that wouldn’t go away. I went through 2 rounds of physical therapy and was still struggling. By making some changes in my life, I eventually got better. After that, I ended up deciding to go to medical school myself so that I could help others as I had been helped. I understand what it’s like to have pain. I hated being dependent on other people to help me. I was used to being independent. I would often think to myself, “would it be this way forever?” I was worried it would never end. And that’s when I found a way.

Over the next few months I will be sharing my journey and process with you so stay tuned.

This study makes me continue to want to avoid Covid infection. Getting Covid a second time, doubles chance of dying and triples the risk of hospitalization in the next 6 months. Bring infected with Covid more than once also dramatically increases risk of developing lung problems, heart conditions or brain conditions and this increased risk persists for 6 months.

Decent summary of info on vit D and covid- bottom line: we don’t have definite reasearch but likely beneficial and little risk of harm, esp if you are deficient.

Does vitamin D protect against Covid-19? Why there may be something to these claims. — Inverse Recent headlines have suggested vitamin D deficiency could increase the risk of dying from Covid-19, and in turn, that we should consider taking vitamin D supplements to protect ourselves. Is this all just hype, or could vitamin D really help in the fight against Covid-19?