I’m no doctor, but I’m pretty confident “social drinking” does not damage your liver this badly by age 31.
Well, the Brits are *very* social...
This woman engaged in binge drinking, but called it social.
She says she is a social drinker, then says this: “But by definition, my alcohol consumption from my late teens to late 20s would be considered binge drinking.”
Ten years of regularly getting schnockered will kill your liver.
>I’m no doctor, but I’m pretty confident “social drinking” does not damage your liver this badly by age 31.
Yeah, there was probably illicit drug use or long-term pharma use that exacerbated it. That said, if you start drinking like this during puberty, it does heavily affect your liver. I had a friend who, in middle school, would drink his dads beer secretly and later had liver problems.
If your social circle consists of like-minded heavy drinkers, you may get early-onset liver problems.
Binge drinking in the UK is very ugly—and common.
The American version of social drinking is holding a drink while you chat with someone.
The British accept binge drinking from a very early age. It’s the thing that shocked me the most when I spent time in England. Teenagers would be passed out drunk on the streets. The paper reported that one drowned falling out of a ferry full of other drunk teenagers. I’m guessing a scene like that is what this women thinks was “social drinking”.
She was very social!
I’m not buying it either.
I met a doc last summer who believed that any amount of the drinking of alcohol, was not a safe practice. Just his opinion.
Mixing the Covid jab with social drinking may create the cocktail that kills.
Mine is genetic.
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.
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.
One thing I learned during 5 years of dealing with cancers in my family: Every person reacts differently to just about everything. A level of consumption by me could very well kill you…and vice versa.
Moderation is always the best course. And in some cases, even moderation isn’t worth it.
be considered binge drinking. “
Binge drinking is the worst drinking you can do. Very destructive
English women are notoriously drunken slags.
5th a day is social?
She later said it was binge drinking.