A magical selection of commercially valuable microbes convert sugar to amino acids and or ethanol, giving rise to a huge global spirits industry worth trillions of dollars for thousands of years
In healthcare and at the forefront of medical science the human microbiome or gut biome have tremendous effects on digestion, immunity, nutrition, body weight, nutrient absorption, digestive disorders that wreak treacherous effects by modulating thousands of other biochemically balanced cell membrane chemical reactions and cytokine signaling cascades, the same reason that disease caused by dietary excess sugars, salt, starches, carbs & artificial chemical additives seem to respond so well or are amenable to treatment by longer duration water only fasting.
See True North in California & Alan Goldhamer who pushes for more scientific research finding about how water fasting modulates more than 10,000 different things in the body while giving the digestive system a break & burning stored body fat producing remarkable weight loss with no loss skin, or why water fasting seems to cause autophagy to preferentially consume white fat from around the organs & eat up cancer cells to liberate amino acids in ways that result in a 4 day water only fast before chemotherapy reducing the side effects by half while boosting effectiveness by double, a virtual miracle for cancer curing medical treatments that cure people of cancers amazingly, made easier, cheaper, better with fewer side effects by water only fasting before getting chemo.
I stopped drinking alcoholic beverages about 150 days ago to improve my health & budget & to obey God who put it on my heart to stop using beer & spirits to cope with stress. By no means am I encouraging anyone else to follow my abstinence path to being alcohol free, but I can say that cigarettes & some kinds of alcohol are effectively effective poisons that eventually cause diseases if you continue using them as a regular part of your lifestyle.
Getting tossed or drunk every night becomes expensive, but not just because of the cost of buying liquor, it also costs you in your health making you age faster & devolve diseases like liver damage or lung damage, for alcohol or cigarette abuse respectively. Smoking kind of like deliberately breathing particulate matter proven to damage lung cells, while drinking alcoholic beverages seems to be more erosive on health when you drink the second, then third, then fourth drink in a row until you achieve near alcohol poisoning passed out with no memory drunk, sort of like the way they did to people getting surgery before anesthesia was developed, they would get the patient very drunk to the point of stupor before cutting them open with crude early surgeries in the age of barbaric medicine when they didn't even know about bacterial infections or their cause of the importance of sterilizing the tools used in surgery. During the Civil War in America about half the casualties died of infections.
I have a problem with alcohol & know it because I think about drinking beer all the time. I know that if I go to the store for a beer, it will result in buying more than one, then I will end up drinking 4 in a row & get really buzzed or drunk. This is dangerous because I am then unable to drive a car during an emergency, for example if I have to take Meg to a hospital suddenly and I am drunk, then it would be illegal for me to drive her drunk, and if the Ambulance takes her it costs a fortune & takes way too long, so then I would be pressure to take her myself even though drunk, you see how this is bad either way.
Alcohol damages the retina of the eye. Alcohol is poisonous to your kidneys. Alcohol damages brain cells. Ethanol the molecular that gives alcohol its potency, ethanol plugs into the brains GABA a receptor, which progressively turns off parts of the brain as the blood alcohol level increases from drinking more alcoholic beverages quickly, which raises your BAC rapidly & it takes hours, many hours for your BAC to come down to legal levels. Driving drunk causes many accidents that disfigure people with lifelong injuries while many other victims of drunk drivers are killed as a result of the poor choices made by the drunk driver whose brain not working correctly because they are deeply intoxicated from drinking way too many alcoholic beverages in sequence or one after the other. Women are in general smaller & less massive than men, & have less body water, so they are more sensitive to alcohol, get drunk more easily, & can overdose into alcohol poisoning more easily.
Look up what alcoholism costs society, or what being an alcoholic does to a person, its horrid in both cases for similar reasons. The drunkard cannot make ration choices, get into bar fights, are willing to pull out a gun & shoot someone over a minor argument. This is similar to why younger children are not legally allowed to drive an automobile on public roadways, their immature impulsive behavior would produce a dangerous driver like many of the low skilled drivers locally who moved to America from countries that do not have a long history of automobile driving.
Driving is a privilege not a human right, but some of these arrogant selfish low skill drivers locally didn't even try driving a car until they moved to America as an elderly foreign born drivers, not all of whom are bad at driving, there are many bad drivers locally who have virtually no personal history of operating a motor car on public roadways with any sort of safe control theory applied, so it's like they are driving drunk even though they are usually sober when driving.
That is me complaining about drivers in King County Washington where it's been a cultural meme that female drivers from Asia are worst in terms of low skill motor vehicle control dynamics as drivers who do stupid, dangerous & foolish things when operating their cars. My Asian friends in High School said their parents are "Shit poor at driving" & I see that all the time as a professional school bus driver watching people playing with their smartphones while driving like they are drunk.
Actually, using a smartphone while driving a car is 26X more dangerous than driving with a BAC of 0.08 the legal limit, in terms of accident statistics, since people using their smartphone while driving are taking their eyes completely off the road ahead, where a fraction of a second mistake can cause a terrible or deadly accident with horrid irreversible consequences & losses & costs. Did I mention that teens tend to be terrible drivers, since the human brain does not finish developing until age 24- to-27 years of age. Why we allow younger teens to drive in America comes down to the history of America, its vast spread-out nature where a car is the only practical way of getting around, even if you live in the suburbs near a large city incredibly.
To be clear I am not making any stereotypes about anyone, I am not a racist, I do not hate anyone. I just find it annoying to drive around so many low skill motorists who often frighten & scare me by almost hitting me, bobbing into my lane, stopping for no apparent reason, getting into fast moving traffic at slow speeds in ways that end up causing accidents, or making sudden lane changes, flipping a u-term in front of other motorists at high speed, turning in front of oncoming traffic, forcing others to slam on their brakes to avoid crashing into the low skill driver, while that produces additional accidents because of the sudden rapid stop causing people to crash into each other.
I watch how some people do not look where they are going when walking, at the grocery store, at the ski resorts. Ever since smartphones launched there have been more people doing more foolish stupid things in public, many of which are dangerous, hazardous or deadly to themselves or other people. Its brain dead & illogical, lock the screen & pay attention to what is happing around you when you are moving, movement & higher speeds mean more energy in the collision or accidents, so slow down, focus on safety and never play with your phone while driving & never drive dunk, it's obviously unfair & selfish to do so.
Look, I have more questions than answers. I do not have all the answers. I am not perfect. I am not even a good driver by my open standards. Meg says I am a good driver, but my expectations for good motorists are extreme because of the safety-oriented nature of my job as a School Bus Driver transporting many other people's priceless children, where safety is of paramount important above all other issues. I have made mistakes while driving, not responded quickly when the light turned green, drove too fast, stopped too fast, I have made a lot of mistakes, especially when driving as a teen & young adult with little experience, I made way more mistakes back then.
I do not expect perfection out of everyone in every domain of life; I just want to encourage people to pay attention when driving because driving is very dangerous for a variety of reasons. I am not an arrogant person anymore, but I am prone to making quick snap judgements when I see something wrong happening and tend to notice the body language of other vehicles near me when I am driving, which comes down to what the driver is thinking about, or how they are shifting their mental focus while driving. Driving a car about 4X easier that safely piloting a helicopter, and I am able to fly a helicopter easily without any experience because I did it for years in PC Flight Simulator & know the general flight dynamics & control layout of common helicopters & aircraft since I thought it was fun to learn about that as a teen, but never became a professional pilot, though at times I think about it, it can be really expensive to get a commercial pilots license, like forty thousand dollars.
I do expect alcohol makers to remove methanol from alcoholic beverages, because methanol is much more toxic than ethanol, & can cause blindness easily in small doses. It does not take much methanol to cause serious terrible health problems, if methanol present in an alcoholic beverage.
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