The first rule of improving your diet is avoiding ultra-processed foods. Opt out of food with a label full of words you can't pronounce. With food, opting out is easy. Buy whole ingredients, cook at home. It's not so easy with alcohol. Brewing your own is an awesome hobby, but most people aren't going that route so you're stuck buying a packaged product and since Alcohol doesn't require ingredient labels, it's difficult to know if you're drinking ultra-processed junk. Normalized hangovers make it worse. When you expect to feel bad, you stop questioning whether the drink itself was the problem. "How come when I go to Italy, I can drink all day and not feel bad?" I hear that all the time. Drinking ultra-processed alcohol makes you feel worse, the same way eating ultra-processed food does compared to a meal made from whole ingredients. Pay attention to how your body responds to different drinks. You can feel genuinely good after drinking. Most people have no idea that's possible.

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Stay Humble Stack Sats is intuitive to winemakers. Nothing makes you think longer term than planting a vineyard meant to last 40+ years. The first real harvest isn't until year 4 after planting. then quality red wine isn't ready to sell for at least 2 years after that. We DCA into vintages once per year, with a minimum HODL of 2 years before a bottle sells. We get one shot per year. In Bitcoin, what matters long term is your HODL stack. In wine, it's your brand perception. One shortcut with leverage at the top of a bull market destroys your stack. One shortcut to rush a wine damages your reputation. Either way it takes years to recover. This is my dad in our vineyard after a late frost decimated our entire 2021 vintage. What else can you do but keep building.

Them grapes keep growing!🍇 It's an incredible year that feels even better after every other fruit in the valley froze out.

I take ONE DAY off from checking the Bitcoin price and this is what it does to me?? I need to speak to the manager.

YOU DO NOT PROCESS ALL ALCOHOLIC DRINKS IN THE SAME WAY. If you feel horrible after you drink, audit what you are drinking and find something that works for you. If you don't have a problem drinking in moderation, you do not need to quit drinking entirely. Switch to low intervention wine Switch to blanco tequila Fuck, I even feel solid after drinking a nice whiskey in comparison to beer, shitty wine or mixed drinks.

Many drinks have been debased, but quality still exists. You know it when you get it. View quoted note →

Sulfites do not give you wine headaches. Your body can process Histamines. It's the combination of them that leads to feeling flushed, congested or getting a headache within your first glass or two.

"Sulfites" give me headaches when I drink wine. I hear it all the time, but something never rang true to me. If you have a true sulfite sensitivity you would have an asthma-like reaction to drinking most wines or eating dried fruit. The key thing is: YOU WOULD KNOW TLDR at the bottom👇 My thinking on this has been that if a wine maker adds a ton of sulfites, they are probably adding a bunch of other additives. Since wine ingredient labeling is extremely opaque, you could be reacting to "anything" and without meeting your winemaker, it would be very difficult to ascertain which is giving you an issue. My advice to people negatively affected by wine has been 3-tiered: Best) Meet your winemaker and ask questions Better) Drink Low Intervention or "Natural" wines Good) Default to French/Italian/European wines generally Now, I'm back to the initial 80 IQ statement being correct. SULFITES DO NOT CAUSE WINE HEADACHES, but they do absolutely decrease your body's ability to process histamines. Histamines + High Sulfur lead to your body having an allergic response Your body produces histamines naturally as part of your immune alarm system causing blood vessels to dilate, tissues to swell, flushing and congestion. Thats the entire mechanism behind allergic reactions and why you take antihistamines to treat them. I'll go into the science of all this more in another thread TLDR Histamines exist in wine and "sulfites" decrease your body's ability to process them which leads to allergic reaction-type symptoms. This works QUICKLY. If you feel hot, congested or get a headache within the first few glasses you are having histamine issues. Quick solutions: White wine -> Lower Histamines Low Intervention wine -> Lower Sulfites DAO Enzyme supplements -> Help process histamines Allegra -> Safest Antihistamine with alcohol (last choice)

Taste matters, but is ephemeral. When it comes to quality wine, how you feel afterwards is the #1 quality indicator.

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