This is a YouTube video titled "How to Go From Addict to Successful Entrepreneur with Joe Polish | Dave Asprey Archives" containing an English conversation recorded in April 2024. The discussion features Joe Polish and Dave Asprey talking about addiction treatment, covering topics such as community support, biochemical factors, trauma work, and environmental influences on addiction recovery.
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So there's four areas to really address to treat addiction. One is community. Nobody recovers in isolation, so you need some sort of community. 12 steps. And if you're an anti 12 step person, you know there's plenty of community. I actually have a site called geniusrecovery.com which lists every type of community. The second is it's biochemical, it's food, it's nutrition, it's exercise, which they can learn all of that from you, reading your books, listening to different podcasts and stuff. The third is trauma work. The issues are in the tissues. So that's where emdr, meditation and breathing. I mean, you take tobacco, the number one killer of people in the United States, the gateway drug is sugar. So more people die of things related to sugar. And then second would be tobacco, third would be alcohol, and then fourth would be opiates currently.
And so smokers.
Is an example.
When someone says you should quit smoking.
Well, to a smoker who that's sometimes the only breathing that they really, the deep breathing they do, it's meditative. It actually is survival for them.
So just learning.
How to breathe.
Most addicts do.
Very shallow breathing, so doing somatic work, plant medicines can come in play. And then the fourth is the environment, the Rat park studies, which I'm sure you've talked about. Enriched environment that makes you not an addict because you have something interesting. Exactly. So those four areas. And so I just started doing that in my life. I started applying that and all of.
