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The lead author of The Frontier Psychiatrists? Owen? He does not drink alcohol.

I never have. I say lead author like I have other people writing this too. I don't, not much. I’d love to have more. But, alas, much like “not drinking” as a young person, sometimes being a nerd means doing it alone.

That may still be true for my newsletter writing—but it does not have to be true to “not drinking alcohol.” Thank God for Curious Elixirs. This is not a paid advertisement—I love these beverages! The issue with “not drinking” is that booze-free outings are historically sugary. “Oh, have a soda instead.”

Soda suuuuucks. In that, sugar is poison. If you drink an additional soda per day at 150 kcal per can, you add 1 lb to your body weight per month if you change nothing else. It’s 12 lbs per year. Alcohol and mixed drinks are no caloric picnic either…in that they have the calories of a whole picnic: