It will probably only give you visible issues from abuse, but it's still a toxic drug in terms of how it impacts your body immediately. It's when you add lifestyle factors together that you have an idea of your risk group. It's stressing your heart, liver, pancreas, GI tract, immune system, and blood vessels.
The neurodegeneration is big nope. I had a few nursing home patients in their 40s and 50s who may as well have been 105 cognitively. Profound dementia while they were bedbound and alternating between shitting themselves/vividly hallucinating until either their liver gave out or their GI tract ruptured.
If you lack vitamin B1, which alcohol flushes out of your body, your brain becomes so starved that it develops a specific kind of dementia that's otherwise seen with chronic malnutrition, eating disorders, and things like that. Meanwhile the "beer gut" eventually becomes fluid pooling in your abdomen to the point that it has to be regularly drained or you look 9 months pregnant with as much physical debilitation. Death by alcoholism is one of the more brutal ones.
My dad claimed that alcohol causes cancer via interfering with ones immune system and gut bacteria. This was just a hunch based on watching a friend get colorectal cancer. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be the truth.
Probably some mix of that and ulceration. Any time cells replicate there's the chance for them to turn cancerous and when you've got wounds like that- a burn for example- there's so much destruction and recombination going on that it becomes a big cancer risk.
Wait how bad is alcohol in mild to moderate amounts? I thought it only fucked you up if you binge drank regularly?
It will probably only give you visible issues from abuse, but it's still a toxic drug in terms of how it impacts your body immediately. It's when you add lifestyle factors together that you have an idea of your risk group. It's stressing your heart, liver, pancreas, GI tract, immune system, and blood vessels.
It can also contribute to nerve damage and cognitive problems
The neurodegeneration is big nope. I had a few nursing home patients in their 40s and 50s who may as well have been 105 cognitively. Profound dementia while they were bedbound and alternating between shitting themselves/vividly hallucinating until either their liver gave out or their GI tract ruptured.
how did they end up there so young?
https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/types-of-dementia/korsakoff-syndrome
If you lack vitamin B1, which alcohol flushes out of your body, your brain becomes so starved that it develops a specific kind of dementia that's otherwise seen with chronic malnutrition, eating disorders, and things like that. Meanwhile the "beer gut" eventually becomes fluid pooling in your abdomen to the point that it has to be regularly drained or you look 9 months pregnant with as much physical debilitation. Death by alcoholism is one of the more brutal ones.
My dad claimed that alcohol causes cancer via interfering with ones immune system and gut bacteria. This was just a hunch based on watching a friend get colorectal cancer. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be the truth.
Probably some mix of that and ulceration. Any time cells replicate there's the chance for them to turn cancerous and when you've got wounds like that- a burn for example- there's so much destruction and recombination going on that it becomes a big cancer risk.