Yeah I'm sober a year now due to drinking myself into severe heart failure (ejection fraction of 17%, up to 47% now) and this is correct. If you can enjoy it great, but the second people start making excuses it's over, it's just a matter of how long the slide takes.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's nothing wrong with alcohol.

Science says otherwise

[–] Tobberone@feddit.nu -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Depends on what the alternative is. I'd prefer a beer to the water water of Flint i.e.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Actually it doesn't depend. Acknowledging alcohol is bad for you makes no claim that other things are better or worse.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago

I say this as someone who deeply enjoys the occasional drink: there is no known minimum safe dose of alcohol. Every drink shortens your potential lifespan.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Whoever this "Dose" person is we need to stop them.

[–] SleepyTeddybear@lemmus.org 2 points 4 days ago

As a nurse, yeah no, you can't really compare those. Water is essential for the human body. Alcohol has no benefits for the human body, quite the opposite.

As far as I know, medicine came to the conclusion that there is no amount higher than 0 that won't harm your body.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

In theory, cocaine, opiates, etc. too. It's just that our culture does not fearmonger about "ethanol addiction", does not call "drinking" a slang term of junkies, and you cannot go to the shop to buy "Wallstreet Rush Hour", "Businessmen's salad", or "Charlie's Home-made Snowstorm".