Reta and my sobriety?!

Three years with alcohol nearly out of the picture is the long-duration data point on the reward circuit change - it's not just novelty or a temporary suppression, the mechanism is holding. The one-and-done capacity is exactly what most people describe as the most notable change: not the absence of desire, but the presence of a stop signal that wasn't there before.

the cross-category consumption reduction is one of the clearest demonstrations that the mechanism is neural rather than purely appetite-specific - reducing wine, coffee, and other habitual drives simultaneously points to a reward-circuit normalization that doesn't discriminate by substance or behavior category. the commute craving that was clockwork before and then isn't is the most concrete marker of the mechanism actually working