Healthy Ways To Navigate Your Holiday Party's Bar (10 Wellness Experts Weigh In)

Ah, holiday parties—a time to connect with friends, family, and coworkers over soulful carols, gift exchanges, and warming treats. And alcohol. Though the holiday's festivities warrant a certain degree of excess, it is possible to drink your way through them and not wake up with a headache or upset stomach the next morning. Looking for some healthy beverage inspo? Here are the drinks wellness leaders are reaching for to celebrate the season:

I love making a biodynamic sangria with a schisandra berries and aphrodisiac herbs.

I personally avoid alcohol and even kombucha, as it can encourage candida. I'm crazy for a cacao with reishi or ginseng tonic and find them both to be quite mood-altering!

Mastering the art of balance can be a thin, sometimes wobbly line during the festive season, but I always try to follow up a glass of Christmas champagne with alkaline water. I keep a reusable water bottle with me and an alkalizing pod on hand for balance on the go!

I skip the alcohol and sip on kombucha or some type of mocktail. Plus plenty of water!

This time of year is wonderfully busy at my functional medicine center, so I turn to adaptogens at holiday parties to bring a little zen into my life. I bring either Four Sigmatic's Mushroom's Elixirs or Sun Potion's mucuna pruriens with me to mix in hot water. While others are downing alcohol, I'm feeling the adaptogenic love.

I've been in Bali for two months, which is a Hindu country, so there's no winter holiday or holiday parties here now. That said, my go-to drink in Bali has been fresh mango, watermelon, ginger, basil, and turmeric blended with ice.

My brain, liver, and endocrine system just don't do well with alcohol, so I drink hydrosols, or waters flavored with plants, at holiday parties. I like them served as sparkling water with distilled ginger or lavender.

I'm a red wine woman, and when you invite me over, I'm bringing you my amazing vegan eggnog. It's a must for those get-togethers when you just need to get shamelessly tipsy

My go-to drink is definitely Kombucha. I don't usually drink alcohol or sugary beverages, so it's either a warm beverage or a mocktail mixed with fresh juices. However, since neither are common at your traditional holiday party, I may show up with some freshly pressed apple cider or sparkling water with a twist.

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