Dr. Robb Kelly: Shattering Myths and Sharing Realities of Addiction

Everybody wants to throw it in, and I'm good with that and do whatever you want to do. You have to look at the hypothalamus is a part of the brain it's a fight or flight part of the brain you're born from birth tells us to eat and drink from birth you'll see babies putting their hands down the mouth when they're hungry or crying because they're hungry it knows it's hungry needs to drink water eat food it's a natural instinct survival instinct part of the brain, the hypothalamus. What happens to the alcoholic, not the drug addicts? The alcoholic, the hypothalamus turns around during that drinking career when we swap from really drinking to alcoholically drinking, and the hypothalamus tells an alcoholic to drink alcohol only. That's why we go days and weeks without food or water. Our brain is telling us to drink alcohol.