I always notice that recommended intake is always based on drinks per day. It seems to me that we need better time resolution than that. Since your body metabolizes about an ounce or more per hour, 5 drinks in one hour would be far more harmful than 5 drinks in 5 hours.
Good for you Quintas! Let the liver healing begin.
*I was never hungover in the classic sense from one bottle but it apparently makes you a bit groggy even hours later. *
Hmm, do you have sleep apnea? Alcohol can make it worse.
If you get a full physical with blood work done once per year (I’d recommend twice per year and the finger up the bum after 50 y o) Then you shouldn’t worry much. Cancer is a bastard though and can come out of nowhere, however I think that has more to do with a daily diet of processed foods and smoking than anything else. The “good” thing about liver disease is that in 99% of the cases, it’s a progressive illness. So if you get your blood work done a couple times per year, you will be told it’s happening by abnormal liver counts. If that happens, throw your wine away.
From this article in the Times which reveals that UK Government safe limits for alcohol were basically pulled out of the air (“sort of intelligent guess by a committee”) because they “felt obliged to produce guidelines”
I drink a bottle of wine a day not because I am “self medicating” or somehow suffereing from a mental illness but because I like to try lots of new wines - anyway once you have opened a bottle it will not be the same if kept overnight. And over the course of an evening, with food, it’s quite easy to polish off a bottle without getting drunk.
All wine and no play makes Jack a zombie.
"One [study] found that men drinking between 21 and 30 units of alcohol a week had the lowest mortality rate in Britain. Another concluded that a man would have to drink 63 units a week, or a bottle of wine a day, to face the same risk of death as a teetotaller."
The trouble is that we keep getting different figures from people doing different ‘studies’.
One reason I don’t give the ‘recommended’ figures much credence is because:
- They are never related to body weight.
- They do not take any account of the period over which you drink.
They say the recommended maximum for a man is, say, 3 units per day but the difference between a 6’ 4" eighteen stone man who splits a bottle into 4 glasses and has a glass for lunch, a glass mid afternoon another with dinner a one as a nightcap and an eight stone man who drinks the same number of units downing whisky over an hour is dramatic. There is absolutely no comparison between the two cases.
Obviously that is an extreme example but the difference in effect for less dramatic examples is still there.
Of course, that does not mean I think people have carte blanche to drink whatever they like without harm. Just that slavishly following crude unit allowances is not the best way to go.
My gf and I each drink around a bottle of wine each evening. We enjoy it. We have discussed longevity issues and both have reached similar conclusions, namely that sometimes quality is more important than quantity. Of course, ymmv.
There are more harmful effects from what what you think about what you drink than what you drink. I know of a person who drinks nothing but 21 bottles of beer a day just to prove that point. He is in excellent health.
I realize that everyone else cannot do what he is doing - it depends on what condition your mind is in.
It is like - its not what you are eating - its what is eating you.
21 12 oz bottles of beer contain 17.5*21= 368 ml of alcohol, equivalent to 900 ml of vodka, so please excuse my skepticism of your friend’s excellent health.
So, is Quintas still alive?
I don’t know about liver, but it sure as hell destroyed my pancreas.
I am still alive.
There are ascended masters who can dematerialze their body at will.
The person I referred to was not at that level, but if you read A Course in Miracles you will see that you can get to a point where the laws of nutrition no longer bind you. Your body is a projection of your mind. If your mind is healed, so is your body.
The person who drinks the 21 galsses of beer a day is not someone I know personally. Jack Canfiled, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, talked about him in an interview.
Woah. Wha … ??
Yay!
What? Are they dematerializing or dissolving?
I’m gonna open a bottle of wine and watch this impending trainwreck…
Oh, good. Glad we cleared that up.
Can I learn how to dematerialize just certain parts of my body? I’d really like a flat stomach! Calling Marianne Williamson…
Just don’t dematerialize your liver.
Portions of your brain can be dematerialized pretty easily…