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.
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.