Not drinking for a month is popular. More than 24,000 Dutch people are participating this month I pass. They make an agreement with themselves to stop the alcohol for 30 or 40 days. Some people associate it a little later in the year with the fasting month that Catholics traditionally observe in the period before Easter. Others simply find it a challenge to review their drinking habits.
What started in England has grown in a few years into a larger movement of people who understand the importance of quitting and cutting back. Psychiatrist and behavioral scientist Arnt Schellekens and liver doctor Eric Tjwa explain what such a month of being dry does to your body in the video of the University of the Netherlands. Watch it above.
This article originally appeared on January 1, 2019.
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