Posted on 11/25/2024 5:20:19 AM PST by RandFan
No one NEEDS alcohol. Social drinking is a MYTH! Drinking is drinking.
NOTHING good comes from drinking.
But heh, you are an adult consuming legal beverages. Your choice, just don’t DRIVE!
Mixing the Covid jab with social drinking may create the cocktail that kills.
Mine is genetic.
Liver diseases also include NASH — I think that is right. Basically, your liver goes crappy without alcohol involvement. I have that, and a fatty liver, too.
Any Dr needs to first rule those out before making predictions.
True- I used to work for a British company and occasionally attended conferences in England.
After the daily event, we would retire to the pub—usually at the site we met—and have a few after-dinner drinks.
For every beer I drank, the locals would put down two to three. I remember chatting with a guy who put down 9 beers in the time I did three. I was feeling pretty toasty and he acted like he was perfectly sober.
One thing that raised my eyebrows during the whole COVID era was that for all the health-conscious practices that were implemented, the one un-healthy thing that was embraced was the consumption of alcohol. Virtual Zoom "happy hours" were often held at the end of a workday; having a beer, glass of wine or a mixed drink at one's computer was more than acceptable.
It was astonishing, when you think about it--we could not get toilet paper at times; milk, eggs and other items had limits on how much you could purchase. But when it came to alcohol, hey--the sky's the limit. Never seemed to be any shortages with liquor. You had to follow arrows around the store at Kroger or Publix, but the liquor stores were wide open. Alcohol was deemed an "essential" product during the pandemic.
He is either deficient in nutrition that feeds the liver or he binged drinking on social occasions. A couple of shots when out with friends should not damage the liver.
I noticed that as well. It seemed like something from the Soviet Union. Everyone is miserable, and the grocery store is empty — but at least we have vodka!!!
Great, another abbreviation. There are new ones popping up in commercials all the time. Everybody seems to want one.
I wonder if the Air Force still has the acronym dictionary that was updated every year?
I just searched by "acronym dictionary" in Google and found there are several.
Do you want to talk about it?
/S
“I think in the UK a lot of people believe getting blackout drunk is just a typical way to hang out with friends. Pass out in the street. Everyone does that ... right? Just being social.”
I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said, “You can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away”
I staggered back to the underground
And the breeze blew back my hair
I remember throwin’ punches around
And preachin’ from my chair
It’s generally recognized that living eventually causes people to die.
Her meaning of social was drinking with others which could have been 4-5 times a week and she also admitted to being a binge drinker also. So she was drinking far more than an average drinker.
Well, I was in college at 16 and learned to drink there. I hated beer, but discovered mixed drinks.
I never drank anywhere but at a bar, and then only once or twice a week. By 18, I learned to binge drink. Fortunately, I went with people who could get me home. Even then, I didn’t get drink more than once or twice a onth.
After college, I learned to drink alone, and would sometimes drink so much, I would wake up in other places (or states) without knowing how I got there.
At 21, I got drunk one last time, woke up in another state, and said that I was too old for this shit. I never got drunk again. I barely drank after that. My limit was one and I drank so little, you could claim I was a non-drinker. Usually, once a year at a party.
I am glad I wised up.
My step brother died from liver failure at 45. He had Hep 2 & 3, cirrhosis of the liver, gastritis and a couple of others all at the same time.
He did some drugs too, but mostly pot and pills. He looked like he was 70 when he died.
In the US we regard social drinking as having a couple of glasses of wine with dinner.
They regard it as falling down, puking in alleys drunk.
To some people, social drinking is getting absolutely blotto, to the point of passing out. And it depends on genes. I know a guy who binge drank hard liquor for 3 or 4 days, at least once a month, for a good 50 years, alternating with sobriety for a few years at a time. He did have a fatty liver for a time, but that apparently resolved. He’s now been sober for over 15 years. I’d say he probably has really good genes.
Anyone who drinks or takes tylenol regularly, or both, should be taking NAC. It is an otc supplement, and is what is given for tylenol overdoses. I had a patient in the hospital once who had taken tylenol to attempt suicide. She was given liquid NAC. The liquid is nasty; smells like permanent wave lotion. The otc stuff is a capsule that protects the liver. It smells a little funky, but not like the liquid.
Tylenol should be a prescription drug.
Agree.
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