There were a couple of articles just few days ago how alcohol may actually improve memory.
Blackouts are different matter but they affect short term memory only anyway.
May help with memory 'may' being key and only low amounts with low alcohol content of 2.5% and so far only it's only been studied using rats.
People who drink regularly drink too much alcohol and people who rarely or don't drink won't drink enough since the study said it had to be every day at low amounts.
Since my startup began growing quickly, I've been having to make a lot of investor / sales calls. These would ordinarily ruin my entire day's productivity. For hours preceding a call it would be impossible for me to concentrate or do work. Shortness of breath, extreme nervousness, etc.
Logically, the anxiety made no sense. I wasn't mentally "worried" about the calls. Most of them weren't very high-stakes.
So I went to a doc and got a prescription for a low dose of propranolol (the drug discussed in this article).
It's life-changing.
Propranolol blocks the peripheral nervous system responses to anxiety.
It allows you to do things that would normally cause a high level of nervousness (ie. public speaking, job interview, going on a date, etc) without feeling any of the physical symptoms of anxiety.
Interestingly, I can remember phone calls I made without taking propranolol much more vividly than the ones I made without. It doesn't feel like I've forgotten the phone calls, but the lack of anxiety attached with the memory makes it a lot less vivid.
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[ 7.6 ms ] story [ 36.4 ms ] threadPeople who drink regularly drink too much alcohol and people who rarely or don't drink won't drink enough since the study said it had to be every day at low amounts.
Since my startup began growing quickly, I've been having to make a lot of investor / sales calls. These would ordinarily ruin my entire day's productivity. For hours preceding a call it would be impossible for me to concentrate or do work. Shortness of breath, extreme nervousness, etc.
Logically, the anxiety made no sense. I wasn't mentally "worried" about the calls. Most of them weren't very high-stakes.
So I went to a doc and got a prescription for a low dose of propranolol (the drug discussed in this article).
It's life-changing.
Propranolol blocks the peripheral nervous system responses to anxiety.
It allows you to do things that would normally cause a high level of nervousness (ie. public speaking, job interview, going on a date, etc) without feeling any of the physical symptoms of anxiety.
Interestingly, I can remember phone calls I made without taking propranolol much more vividly than the ones I made without. It doesn't feel like I've forgotten the phone calls, but the lack of anxiety attached with the memory makes it a lot less vivid.
http://ethanwiner.com/betablox.html