You are both correct. Alcohol is the most dangerous drug to detox from. However, I'll have a few shots a few times a week, and maybe social drink a night or two a week. It's not like I'm even getting drunk, let alone doing so often enough to develop a dependency.
In the U.K. you are only permitted to drink such beers if you have a scraggly beard, a tweed jackets (with leather elbow pad) and smoke a pipe.
(U.K.) Diet coke cola is one of my vices but I limit myself to no more one can per day, and not everyday! I think it’s less sweet than regular coke and horribly sweet Pepsi.
Sounds like Sprite…
I just ordered some premium sencha from Ippodo in Kyoto 🤤
You sound like a sensible drinker!
I have the opposite problem - I can’t stay awake especially on a training days. I can literally lie down any time and fall asleep.
I can't stand most of the fake sweeteners. The erythritol/stevia blends aren't completely awful, but that doesn't make me a big fan.
Definitely not Sprite, that's a Coke product and it's all over the US and maybe my least favorite soda, it just tastes of floor cleaner to me.
Not as a general rule. You'll sometimes see it at an English styled pub, but it's not very common here, at least not on the west coast or the southwest.
I think it's more of a universal concern. A lot of people in rehab probably never intended to get there.
The specific concern, of going through withdrawal, is not one that skribs strikes me as having, is what I was saying. Obviously that can change in the future for any of us. But for the moment it's irrelevent; I only mentioned the relevant thing of how it impacts sleep since that's what he directly said was a concern.
I don't think was referring to Skribs when I wrote it, I was referring more to the topic itself, martial arts and vices.
I once read an interview with Ozzy Osbourne where he was talking about his addictions. He said he had overcome heroine, cocaine, alcohol addiction…everything…except smoking tobacco. He just couldn’t shake ciagerettes.
I've had two different friends who were ex-heroine addicts tell me that quitting smoking was much harder than quitting heroine.
Mars bars…
Rolled Sprees and Dr. Pepper. When I was young it was like fuel, now it's catching up. Trying to keep my A1Cs out of the prediabetic zone.
Some percent of asians, the number varies depending on who's doing the study, but somewhere between one third to one half, have trouble breaking down alcohol. There's a couple of enzymes that are key to breaking down alcohol, and one of those enzymes is defective in some way for those asians. So they flush noticably, which can be embarrassing, might make them throw up with only a little bit, which is also embarrassing, might get a headache/get dizzy, and the effects in general (ie: drunkenness) are stronger and/or last longer.
This reminds me, I heard gingers have to get more anesthesia than others normally get. Could be a myth but I heard they require higher doses. Idk why.
then again, as I recall, the deal was about addiction.
<looks over shoulder> Can you get me some?
Acetaldehyde dehydrogenase is less functional in some East Asians. I went out with a girl who’s mother was Chinese and father, white Caucasia. She became drunk quickly, flushed and found it very unpleasant. She was a cheap date as she avoided alcohol!
Ah yes, I remember that, too! But it was a small study with only women amongst the subjects.
So they can get addicted, but when you have those negative things happen, you're more likely to avoid alcohol, which (theoretically) means you're less likely to become an alcoholic. And asians in general are significantly less likely than other races/ethnicities to become addicted to alcohol; that's one theory why (and the one I believe, personally).
