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To: TigersEye

—”drinking Everclear 95% alcohol is a bad idea for kids too.”

The question is are humans predisposed to alcohol? In our DNA or just as a social event?

Most have heard about American Indian problems when I was in Asia drunks were not that obvious.
I think most Asians turn beet red with a few drinks and avoid it?

—”Everclear”

Long ago something that was claimed to be Everclear was sold in aspirin bottles, cheap.

It was not unusual to see the users unconscious(?) in the hallway of the dorm.

Glad to be a lifelong near teetotaller.


64 posted on 07/16/2021 7:27:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
The question is are humans predisposed to alcohol? In our DNA or just as a social event?

Since there are no specific receptors in the human body for alcohol and there are cannabinoid receptors in all humans the answer is obviously "no."

The fact that some particular genetic lines of people have more tolerance for alcohol than others does not suggest a "predisposition" to drinking alcohol. It suggests a heritage from a line of people who drank enough alcohol to weed out those who had little tolerance to it.

Funny, though, people of African descent, who have little or no history of alcohol use in their line of descent, don't seem to have the same low tolerance to it that Native Americans have.

67 posted on 07/16/2021 12:06:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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