GABA Supplementation During Alcohol Recovery: What It Can and Cannot Do
The DRY protocol includes supplemental GABA. Understanding why-and the significant pharmacological limitations of oral GABA-requires a careful look at the blood-brain barrier.
L-Glutamine and the Gut-Brain Axis in Alcohol Recovery
Alcohol damages intestinal lining, increasing gut permeability and driving systemic inflammation that reaches the brain. L-Glutamine is the primary intestinal repair amino acid.
Alcohol and the Brain: What Heavy Use Actually Does and What Recovers
Heavy alcohol use produces measurable brain volume loss, white matter damage, and neurotransmitter disruption. Most is reversible with sustained abstinence, but the timeline is longer than expected.
NAC and Liver Protection: Why It's in the DRY Protocol
NAC is the clinical treatment for acetaminophen-induced liver failure. It works through glutathione synthesis. Alcohol produces similar oxidative liver stress through different mechanisms.
Social Drinking Culture and Cessation: The Unique Challenge of Alcohol
Every other substance has become socially marginal. Alcohol is built into networking events, weddings, restaurants, and professional culture. Cessation requires a social strategy.
Thiamine and Wernicke's Encephalopathy: The Most Medically Critical Part of the DRY Protocol
Alcohol impairs thiamine absorption and depletes stores. The result, if severe, is irreversible neurological damage. This is the medical emergency hidden inside alcohol withdrawal.
The DRY Protocol: Week by Week
An honest, mechanism-based account of alcohol cessation over 8 weeks, what the DRY protocol is doing at each stage, and what to genuinely expect.
PAWS: The Post-Acute Withdrawal That Derails Long-Term Recovery
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome can last months to years in heavy alcohol users. Mood instability, cognitive fog, sleep disruption, and craving recur episodically long after acute withdrawal ends.
Kudzu Root: Three Clinical Trials and Why It Works
Pueraria lobata isoflavones modulate dopaminergic and serotonergic systems to reduce the reward value of alcohol. Three published human clinical trials. Nearly invisible in the US market.
GABA and NMDA: The Biochemistry of Alcohol Withdrawal
Alcohol withdrawal is the only common substance withdrawal that can kill you. Understanding why requires understanding what chronic alcohol does to GABA-A and NMDA receptors simultaneously.