Should you be living alcohol-free? with Karolina Rzadkowolska

<h2>Why would someone consider living an alcohol-free life? There are many benefits of living alcohol-free, both mentally and physically. But is living alcohol-free right for you?</h2> <h3>Why Karolina became alcohol-free</h3> <p>Alcohol is an awkward subject in our society. Most people don't speak of or address alcohol until there is a significant problem with it. Karolina, however, has worked with so many women who have been drinking very normally with the society around them. This was the same for Karolina, drinking a lot in college and into her twenties. As she got older, she was very healthy from Monday to Thursday, and then on the weekends, alcohol came into play and she always overdrank. By Monday she felt emotionally drained and didn't have the stamina to face the week. She would make healthy progress and then bulldoze it over the weekend. She lived this pattern for years. Until she heard of dry January. Dry January was the permission she needed to try life without alcohol without fear of judgment from her peers. This gave her the freedom to do and try other things. By the time February arrived, she was enjoying this new lifestyle, but she drank a few times and learned that she didn't like how she felt when she drank.</p> <p>She noticed a significant difference in her physical and emotional health when she was not putting alcohol into her body. And this led her to address self-limiting beliefs and do things she'd always dreamt of doing such as writing a book and starting a business.</p> <h3>The science behind how alcohol affects the human body</h3> <p>Karolina originally thought that the way alcohol made her feel was specific to her and not to other people. But as she began talking about her experience with being alcohol-free, she discovered other people experienced the symptoms too. Symptoms like sleepless nights, night sweats, feeling groggy, etc. are simply how alcohol affects the human body.</p> <h5>Sleep</h5> <p>Alcohol reduces REM sleep. We typically have 5 to 6 cycles of REM sleep per night. Even o