Word of the day: Contrition - A mental state wherein one feels remorse for wrongdoing, and motivation toward atonement. Health Cookie #14: Alcohol, it's very important that we talk about it. Alcohol is water-soluble and fat-soluble, which means it can flow throughout your body and penetrate your cells and organs, causing tremendous amounts of damage after being ingested. Other substances, when ingested, typically attach to your cells which begins a cascade of events meant to "remove" the attached substance parked onto the cell. But alcohol, in being fat and water soluble, just flows right through your cells and causes substantial damage to them. Although your liver does convert Ethanol (ingestible alcohol) of any form into Acetaldehyde, and then converts that into Acetate - a usable fuel for the body, the conversion of Ethanol into Acetaldehyde actually makes it become more damaging before it can proceed to be converted into Acetate, and your liver cells take a huge beating from the process, because Acetaldehyde kills cells indiscriminately and without exemption. It's actually significantly worse and more damaging than the Ethanol you originally ingested, but it's necessary for your liver to convert Ethanol into Acetaldehyde in order to then convert it into Acetate. The Acetaldehyde your body converts the Ethanol into is actually what causes you to have the feeling of being drunk, because it passes the blood-brain barrier and poisons your brain, and most people never realize the fact that being drunk is actually a poison-induced disruption of your biology and neurology. The damage starts in the gut when you ingest the Ethanol, but then some Acetaldehyde produced by your liver from the Ethanol later on actually crosses your blood-brain barrier, having a direct effect on your neurochemistry. Most things can't cross the blood-brain barrier, but since Alcohol is fat and water soluble, it just flows right through. The effect is has on the gut is profound, it disrupts everything in your stomach, killing off the vast majority of the good gut bacteria responsible for sending signals to your brain to stimulate dopamine and serotonin release, which can have a negative impact on your capacity for positive feelings and motivation. We all know alcohol kills bacteria; You scrap your knee, your mom or dad pours alcohol on it. But alcohol is indiscriminate about which bacteria it kills, it simply eradicates upon contact. As a result of this, your gut lining is disrupted, which causes, for a short time, bad bacteria in the gut to pass out of the gut and into the bloodstream. So, let's recap the consequences of drinking alcohol: Your good gut bacteria is killed, your bad gut bacteria from partially-digested food slips out into your bloodstream, alcohol has a negative impact on every cell it penetrates and it can penetrate every single cell in your body because it is both water and fat soluble, and while being processed in the liver, it becomes Acetaldehyde, which passes the blood-brain barrier, killing brain cells and giving you a euphoric feeling as a result of heavily poisoning and bludgeoning various parts of your body on a cellular and bacterial level. The cherry on top is the fact that this has a net effect of disrupting the neural circuits responsible for regulating your consumption patterns; So, in other words, one of the cumulative effects of alcohol poisoning on your brain is to reduce your inhibitions and stimulate additional alcohol intake. While you can consume fermented foods, such as Kimchi, Saurkraut or Natto to restore your gut bacteria, you can't undo the tremendous amount of damage that your body suffers on a bacterial and cellular level every time you drink. You can restore your body to some extent through the Carnivore Diet and Intermittent Fasting, we all can, indeed; But you've probably seen it in your own life, that once somebody drinks every day - even in small amounts - for just ten years, they become a shadow of their former selves, and they no longer have self-regulation or self-control where their addictions are concerned. This is because they have disrupted those neural circuits responsible for inhibition so consistently for so long that their core personality has changed, becoming more pleasure-seeking and less disciplined to a perpetually increasing extent over time.
Word of the day: Contrition - A mental state wherein one feels remorse for wrongdoing, and motivation toward atonement.
Health Cookie #14: Alcohol, it's very important that we talk about it. Alcohol is water-soluble and fat-soluble, which means it can flow throughout your body and penetrate your cells and organs, causing tremendous amounts of damage after being ingested. Other substances, when ingested, typically attach to your cells which begins a cascade of events meant to "remove" the attached substance parked onto the cell. But alcohol, in being fat and water soluble, just flows right through your cells and causes substantial damage to them. Although your liver does convert Ethanol (ingestible alcohol) of any form into Acetaldehyde, and then converts that into Acetate - a usable fuel for the body, the conversion of Ethanol into Acetaldehyde actually makes it become more damaging before it can proceed to be converted into Acetate, and your liver cells take a huge beating from the process, because Acetaldehyde kills cells indiscriminately and without exemption. It's actually significantly worse and more damaging than the Ethanol you originally ingested, but it's necessary for your liver to convert Ethanol into Acetaldehyde in order to then convert it into Acetate. The Acetaldehyde your body converts the Ethanol into is actually what causes you to have the feeling of being drunk, because it passes the blood-brain barrier and poisons your brain, and most people never realize the fact that being drunk is actually a poison-induced disruption of your biology and neurology.
The damage starts in the gut when you ingest the Ethanol, but then some Acetaldehyde produced by your liver from the Ethanol later on actually crosses your blood-brain barrier, having a direct effect on your neurochemistry. Most things can't cross the blood-brain barrier, but since Alcohol is fat and water soluble, it just flows right through. The effect is has on the gut is profound, it disrupts everything in your stomach, killing off the vast majority of the good gut bacteria responsible for sending signals to your brain to stimulate dopamine and serotonin release, which can have a negative impact on your capacity for positive feelings and motivation. We all know alcohol kills bacteria; You scrap your knee, your mom or dad pours alcohol on it. But alcohol is indiscriminate about which bacteria it kills, it simply eradicates upon contact. As a result of this, your gut lining is disrupted, which causes, for a short time, bad bacteria in the gut to pass out of the gut and into the bloodstream. So, let's recap the consequences of drinking alcohol: Your good gut bacteria is killed, your bad gut bacteria from partially-digested food slips out into your bloodstream, alcohol has a negative impact on every cell it penetrates and it can penetrate every single cell in your body because it is both water and fat soluble, and while being processed in the liver, it becomes Acetaldehyde, which passes the blood-brain barrier, killing brain cells and giving you a euphoric feeling as a result of heavily poisoning and bludgeoning various parts of your body on a cellular and bacterial level.
The cherry on top is the fact that this has a net effect of disrupting the neural circuits responsible for regulating your consumption patterns; So, in other words, one of the cumulative effects of alcohol poisoning on your brain is to reduce your inhibitions and stimulate additional alcohol intake. While you can consume fermented foods, such as Kimchi, Saurkraut or Natto to restore your gut bacteria, you can't undo the tremendous amount of damage that your body suffers on a bacterial and cellular level every time you drink. You can restore your body to some extent through the Carnivore Diet and Intermittent Fasting, we all can, indeed; But you've probably seen it in your own life, that once somebody drinks every day - even in small amounts - for just ten years, they become a shadow of their former selves, and they no longer have self-regulation or self-control where their addictions are concerned. This is because they have disrupted those neural circuits responsible for inhibition so consistently for so long that their core personality has changed, becoming more pleasure-seeking and less disciplined to a perpetually increasing extent over time.