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To: fourth and three

my understanding is it takes two things to get your condition. First you need a genetic predisposition. Then you need to drink. Using tylenol speeds up the process. There are lots of people who drink heavily and live to their 70s and never develop liver problems. They don’t have the genetic component so they don’t have to worry.


13 posted on 07/03/2012 8:43:45 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

“my understanding is it takes two things to get your condition. First you need a genetic predisposition. Then you need to drink. Using tylenol speeds up the process. There are lots of people who drink heavily and live to their 70s and never develop liver problems. They don’t have the genetic component so they don’t have to worry.”

You understand correctly. And the liver will regenerate miraculously from many things, but not cirrhosis.


73 posted on 07/03/2012 11:22:11 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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