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Beer Is Better Pain Reliever Than Tylenol, Study Finds
CBS 3 PHILADELPHIA ^ | 06 MAY 2017 | CBS 3 PHILADELPHIA

Posted on 05/06/2017 4:36:10 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Got a few aches and pains? Before you head to the medicine cabinet and reach for those over-the-counter painkillers, consider drinking a few beers.

A new study, led by Dr. Trevor Thompson from the University of Greenwich, and published in The Journal of Pain, suggests that throwing back a few cold ones actually relieves your pain better than Tylenol.

The study, reported by Lifehacker, found that raising your blood alcohol content to the legal limit of .08%, or about three or four beers deep, elevates your pain threshold significantly. The research involved 18 studies and more than 400 participants. It looked at the effect of different dosages of alcohol on subject pain response.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: beer; pain; painkiller; painmeds
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To: ClearCase_guy

Scotch heals better than beer, I always feel better in the evening,


41 posted on 05/06/2017 6:02:31 PM PDT by Backin1998 (It's fun listening to the Liberals these days)
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To: unixfox

*** “Tylenol works great for the morning after headache” ***

Back in my Oil Rig days there was a big ol Roughneck (tough as nails) that applied that technique and he went home in a plastic bag. Some said Liver failure some said Kidney failure, I don’t know I just watched him leave double wrapped.


42 posted on 05/06/2017 6:07:30 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (They used to get away with it. Not anymore.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think 3 or 4 beers contain more calories than 2 acetaminophen.


43 posted on 05/06/2017 6:14:08 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be defeated.)
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To: Tax-chick

He’s 21 so he’s almost always eating. :-) Me, not so much. I call it quits after 2 drinks anyway. Well, usually!


44 posted on 05/06/2017 6:14:27 PM PDT by scripter
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To: wrench

I’ve had two teeth pulled in my life, one a wisdom tooth that was hard to get out. I had learned from back injury that beer is much better than pain pills, so after the dentist I just pitch the pills he prescribes, and buy a six-pack.

I’ve never experienced pain from any dental procedure.


45 posted on 05/06/2017 6:16:14 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: scripter
He’s 21 so he’s almost always eating.

My two oldest sons are 23 and 20. If we had a talking parrot, it would say, "Is there any more food around here?!?"

46 posted on 05/06/2017 6:16:28 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Quien vive? CRISTO! Y a su Nombre? GLORIA! Y a su pueblo? VICTORIA!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Tylenol is also one of the worst things you can take...the most dangerous pain reliever on the market.

Acetaminophen overdose sends as many as 78,000 Americans to the emergency room annually and results in 33,000 hospitalizations a year, federal data shows. Acetaminophen is also the nation’s leading cause of acute liver failure, according to data from an ongoing study funded by the National Institutes for Health.

47 posted on 05/06/2017 6:17:07 PM PDT by montag813
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To: gnarledmaw
If I only believed my personal experience, I would be quite convinced that Tylenol was the biggest placebo scam ever pulled off. Tylenol does absolutely nothing for me.
My experience as well.

48 posted on 05/06/2017 6:17:27 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

People will be asking to have the beer painkiller in their IVs at the hospitals now.


49 posted on 05/06/2017 6:21:19 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I’ve had two neck fusions, right side shoulder surgery, and surgery to reconnect all four tendons in my right hand. Currently, I’m in rehab for my left shoulder. Complete separation of the rotator cuff tendon and the biceps tendon. Bone spurs and arthritis. I’m eight weeks into my recovery and I’ve had two opioid painkillers. I’ve found Knob Creek bourbon is much more effective than the opioids.


50 posted on 05/06/2017 6:30:44 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Duh


51 posted on 05/06/2017 6:44:22 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
It increases your social skills too.

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52 posted on 05/06/2017 6:47:10 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: CriticalJ

Probably around the same, and let’s you sleep easier.


53 posted on 05/06/2017 6:48:08 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Both can destroy your liver, so pick the one that actually works............BEER!


54 posted on 05/06/2017 6:56:56 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: LegendHasIt

How does one stop at three or four beers?


55 posted on 05/06/2017 6:58:05 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: mosaicwolf
How does one stop at three or four beers?

Get somebody who's not having any to keep count.

56 posted on 05/06/2017 7:17:02 PM PDT by thulldud
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The other day I was so desperate for a beer I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.


57 posted on 05/06/2017 7:18:42 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Well of course, alcohol is an anesthetic


58 posted on 05/06/2017 7:23:19 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
For a painful headache, put a "Magic Hat" on your head, and "away go troubles, down the drain".

   

59 posted on 05/06/2017 7:44:19 PM PDT by Clearly Right (Except when I'm driving, which I tend to do on the left side of the vehicle.)
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To: scripter

When I was in college, I could drink a lot, have a hangover, but it was always gone by about 2 pm. Now I have more than 2 glasses of wine- ruins me for the whole next day. More than that, I’m feeling bad for 2 days. Youth has an effect on hangovers in my opinion.


60 posted on 05/06/2017 7:53:58 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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