How to Stop Alcohol Cravings with Nutritional Repair and Amino Acids with Chris ScottHow to Stop Alcohol Cravings with Nutritional Repair and Amino Acids with Chris Scott
Families Navigating Addiction & Recovery
Jeff Jones and Chris Scott talk about using nutritional repair and amino acids to ease alcohol cravings and support recovery. They also discuss how families can apply the same ideas for their own wellbeing and shift away from shame-based responses.
44:34•21 Aug 2026
Rebuilding the Brain: Chris Scott on Nutritional Repair for Alcohol Cravings
Episode Overview
- Nutrient repair using amino acids and vitamins can support depleted neurotransmitters and help ease alcohol cravings and withdrawal stress.
- Supplements are presented as a foundation and “training wheels”, not a magic cure, and are most useful alongside other approaches such as therapy, medications and community support.
- Families can use bio-nutritional repair for their own anxiety and exhaustion from living with addiction, gaining steadier brains and more capacity to support change.
- Traditional models that focus on shaming the person with addiction or listing past harms may increase shame and strain relationships rather than building trust.
- A broader biopsychosocial spiritual view, including movement, nutrition, family dynamics and meaning, offers more options than relying on a single recovery method.
“I would say nutrient repair is like the training wheels that someone needs in order to get to the point where they can ride the bike on their own.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? Jeff Jones sits down with Chris Scott to talk about exactly that, using a mix of raw honesty, science chat, and a few laughs along the way. Chris shares how drinking that started at university spiralled into severe dependence while working in high finance, with morning hand tremors, hallucinations, and secret vodka in vitamin water just to get through the workday.
After a medical detox and inpatient rehab, he realised he “needed something more than what traditional rehab was giving me” and stumbled into what he now calls bio-nutritional repair. Instead of treating alcohol use as only a psychological or moral problem, Chris explains how nutrients and amino acids can act as “training wheels” for a stressed brain.
He talks about supplements like L-glutamine, magnesium, B vitamins and their role in rebuilding depleted neurotransmitters such as GABA, and how this biochemical support can reduce cravings and restore energy and sleep. Jeff keeps bringing the conversation back to families, pointing out that relatives living with addiction stress can use the same bio-nutritional ideas for their own anxiety and exhaustion.
He challenges the old model where families focus solely on “fixing” the addicted person and instead argues for shared change: family and individual healing together rather than in separate silos. Chris also outlines how his work grew from a small blog into articles, programmes, group coaching, and a free community, all centred on adding nutrition and movement to recovery, not replacing other tools.
He’s clear that supplements don’t “cure” addiction, but can give people the clarity and strength to actually use therapy, community, and other supports. If you or someone you love is stuck in the cycle of cravings and failed attempts, this conversation offers a different question to sit with: what might change if brain chemistry got as much attention as behaviour?
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