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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 18:20:55 2022 No.14358414 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14358637 >>14359316 >>14359893 >>14361487 >>14362022 >>14363373 >>14363433

Why can humans process alcohol?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 18:29:59 No.14358437 Report

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If we couldn't it would kill us and we wouldn't drink it anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 18:30:07 No.14358438 Report

Quoted By: >>14358499 >>14359262

Because we naturally produce it day-to-day in our bodies, and we would die if we couldn't process it.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 18:57:36 No.14358499 Report

Quoted By: >>14358510 >>14358513

>>14358438
How does our body produce it?

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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 19:00:06 No.14358510 Report

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>>14358499
b-b-by dwinking w-w-whiskey

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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 19:03:24 No.14358513 Report

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>>14358499
Small amounts of ethanol are produced by the gut microbiota. More severe cases are called auto-brewery syndrome.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 20:02:49 No.14358637 Report

Quoted By: >>14358669

>>14358414
They can't. Which is why it's such a deadly drug. If you were able to process it, you wouldn't be affected by it.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 20:14:50 No.14358669 Report

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>>14358637
>They can't.
Huh? The liver converts the ethanol to acetaldehyde, and then to acetate, which is then broken down into water and CO2. Interestingly, many Asians are less efficient at processing acetaldehyde, known as Asian Flush Syndrome.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 20:39:41 No.14358735 Report

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>>14358669
>Interestingly, many Asians are less efficient at processing acetaldehyde, known as Asian Flush Syndrome.
Actually surprising given they were the first that started brewing alcohol

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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 23:13:12 No.14359157 Report

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>>14358735
Proofs chink?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 23:37:25 No.14359262 Report

Quoted By: >>14359839 >>14361928

>>14358438
We naturally produce other endogenous substances which if introduced exogenously in sufficient doses are toxic. Reductionist and fallacious argument.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Apr 2022 23:52:08 No.14359316 Report

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>>14358414
Why did we ever drink it and how the fuck did everyone have its own version?

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 03:47:38 No.14359839 Report

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>>14359262
>We naturally produce other endogenous substances which if introduced exogenously in sufficient doses are toxic.
So...how is that disputing that anon's point?

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 04:10:10 No.14359893 Report

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>>14358414
Considering that our hunter-gatherer ancestors were probably regularly coming into contact with fermented fruits we evolved a tolerance to it. Plenty of other animals can process ethanol too, elephants, monkeys, etc. get drunk off of fermented fruits all of the time.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 04:18:59 No.14359913 Report

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>>14359316
>Why did we ever drink it
old fruits and old porridge will ferment naturally from the yeast in the air (if other bacteria etc don’t get to it first). Lambic is brewed this way, they just open the casks and let the stuff float in. I wonder how long it took them to start turning this stuff into bread as well

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 19:04:42 No.14361434 Report

Quoted By: >>14361848

>>14358513
why does it do that?
should drink more to help ourselves out

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 19:19:21 No.14361487 Report

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>>14358414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1Erm2C4iQ&t=102s

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 19:43:58 No.14361571 Report

Quoted By: >>14361592 >>14363411

Our body is able to process alcohol, we evolved to do so in order to eat fermented food. The scientific consensus is that 1AU per day has basically no effect on your mortality, so if you drink a can of beer a couple of times a week you should be fine.
But be careful to never exceed 1AU per single setting, this shit isn't linearly additive

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 19:48:27 No.14361592 Report

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>>14361571
20 AU per day is a sweet spot desu

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 21:14:56 No.14361848 Report

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>>14361434
>why does it do that?
It's a byproduct of microbial metabolism.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 21:50:34 No.14361928 Report

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>>14359262
Alcohol is obviously toxic in sufficient does too, but we can still process it, most mammals can.

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Anonymous Sun 03 Apr 2022 22:35:23 No.14362022 Report

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>>14358414
All you need to make booze is suger.
That should be enough of an answer for you

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Anonymous Mon 04 Apr 2022 10:13:29 No.14363373 Report

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>>14358414
>Why can humans process alcohol?

It occurs so frequently in nature that anything that can't process it will have a much harder time surviving.

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Anonymous Mon 04 Apr 2022 10:50:15 No.14363411 Report

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>>14361571
How much is 1AU? Is it safe to drink your morning coffee with a shot of whisky?

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Anonymous Mon 04 Apr 2022 11:05:07 No.14363433 Report

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>>14358414
because we've literally subsisted on fresh and ripe fruit almost exclusively for tens of millions of years, which would often have contained certain levels of alcohol when overripe due to the natural fermentation of sugars
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