Is this stuff at the root cause of alcoholism and most addictions?

It's a rhetorical question... hahaha I already know it is.

So as a society we tend to look down on alcoholics and others that have drug addictions, etc.

We think that they are addicted because they are weak and lack willpower, etc.

I am here today to throw all of that on its head with my story and what I think it means.

Basically my view is that alcoholism has almost zero to do with willpower/strength and rather is almost completely physical in its rootcause.

In late 2019 I was drinking every night

So it was late 2019 and my neurological system felt impaired. It just felt impossible to relax.

I had just moved to a new country and started working in a new job, so at the time that is what I mentally attributed it to.

And as a result I would drink. Every night.

Not to the point of being drunk, but usually at least 3-4 beers. And it was just to calm my nerves. I was like that for probably a year or so.

And note that I consider myself a pretty strong person. I was already in my 40’s and had been through a shitload in my life.

But still… it just felt impossible to relax without alcohol. My body & mind was just strung out. I felt like I was in survival mode.

Note that at the time I wasn’t wearing any dental appliance and was sleeping with an open posterior bite. You can read more about what that is here:

The Mystery Around Posterior Open Bites

Fast forward to today…. I might drink a single beer once every 2-3 weeks

These days I barely drink at all. The thought of it just puts me off.

I feel very relaxed and the question that enters my head when someone asks me if I want a beer is… “why? I don’t particularly like the taste and i have no desire to impair my focus.”

I work like a machine for the past couple years from about 8am - 10pm or so and just do not get tired. Nor do i get stressed. And i don’t want to impede my efficiency with alcohol.

Even after working like this non-stop day-after-day… I just feel no need to ‘relax’ or unwind. And thus feel no need to drink.

But also note that for the past ~4 years I have been using my biomechanical dental method and wearing a myobrace to sleep every night.

To go from drinking every day to almost not drinking at all today… I literally made ZERO effort

I made no effort to make this major change. I never even set a goal of not drinking.

Never invested an ounce of effort.

It just happened on its own.

So you might be wondering… perhaps something big changed in your life that helped trigger this change? And the answer would be no, not really.

Literally the only thing that changed is that I was using my biomechanical approach to heal myself and i was no longer sleeping with a posterior open bite. That is all.

I think this applies to everyone

I’ve been through almost the exact same thing when i was recovering in 2015, 2017 and even for a short while in 2018.

Basically everytime I was doing the right biomechanical ‘technique’ my body just naturally wanted to be healthy. And everytime i was doing the wrong thing, i was unwittingly drinking more and felt more stressed.

The problem is that when you’re in that downward cycle it’s very hard to recognize that you are. And very easy to kinda justify it to yourself.

But then you see it for what it is in hindsight.

I see this pattern very clearly in others

When you experience the same exact thing several times over a period of years you start to view it as a pattern and look to see if the external world also reflects those same patterns.

So for the past 5-6 years I’ve been paying attention to folks that seem like they are addicted to drugs or alcohol to see what their physical ‘structure’ looked like. And to me the pattern is as clear as day.

It pretty much never happens that a person with a great neck and skull is getting addicted to alcohol or drugs, rather it is almost always a person in a more advanced state of collapse.

Same thing with pain killers & opioids. I remember when i watched this documentary on the crisis in America I was paying attention to all of the footage they had of the people that were hooked on this stuff.

I literally did not see a single one in the hundreds of people that they showed that I considered to have a ‘good’ skull & spine by my definition.

The Matthew Perry example

The recent death of Matthew Perry is a great example. Look at how his neck and jawline were gone the years before he passed away.

So am I surprised that it came out that he was addicted to alcohol and opioids? Absolutely not.

It was probably what he was using to deal with the physical collapse process that he was dealing with, which was literally crushing his skull and sending his neurological system bezerk.

I know what that feels like. I’ve been there.

And now I’m in a completely different place. As in I probably drink less alcohol than like 98% of adult males.

And I did absolutely nothing to make that change. Except of course… my biomechanical magic… haha ;)

PS If you’re interested in why this happened to Matthew… this article here (link) points to the fact that he’d had some serious dental work done back when he was making Friends… and I’m very willing to bet that that is at the root cause of what happened to him in the ensuing years.