
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
The Real Cost of Alcohol: How Drinking Impacts Your Health and Productivity with Duncan Bhaskaran Brown
🎧 What if your seemingly harmless drink is costing more than just money? Welcome to The Real Cost of Alcohol: How Drinking Impacts Your Health and Productivity with Duncan Brown, where the hidden costs of social drinking are dissected. While it's common to associate excessive drinking with unemployment, a staggering 80% of problem drinkers are actually employed, and often in high-earning positions.
💼 Impact on the Workplace
Heavy drinking has far-reaching effects on professional life. Even moderate intake can disrupt sleep, increase stress, and dampen empathy. Surprisingly, lost productivity from alcohol cost the U.S. economy $430 billion last year, eclipsing the annual turnover of major corporations like Apple.
🍷 Health and Wellness Crisis
Regular drinking raises cortisol by 3% per unit, paradoxically increasing the very stress it claims to soothe. This uptick in the stress hormone contributes significantly to health deterioration, slicing away at life quality bit by bit.
Join us as Duncan Brown unravels these shocking revelations, emphasizing the massive, often invisible, cost of alcohol on our health and productivity.
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