“It’s very nice, you shouldn’t make a mountain of it,” defends Jean-Pierre Couteron, addictologist

“Dry January” is “a goal: not to drink alcohol, and a duration: one month“, explains Jean-Pierre Couteron, addictologist. The idea is to measure the benefits of this deprivation, and the habits adopted with alcohol, to “shift away from this social reflex and look at the traps“, explains the addictologist. The benefits of stopping are better sleep, weight loss, less fatigue.

Learn to relax

“I would say to people who have never tried to do it, that it’s very nice, you don’t have to make a mountain of it“, affirms Jean-Pierre Couteron. For people who would like to try this month of January without alcohol, they must learn to relax and do more sport. But “there is no single solution that is the same for everyone“, explains the addictologist. Dry January is an operation”pro-health and not anti-alcohol“, defends the guest.