How does drinking your self to death happen?

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I have had friends/family who have passed away from long term use, or one day they just didn’t wake up after a night of drinking =[. Wtf is going on?

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You need ingredients in your system and a healthy liver to not convert alcohol into more poisonous stuff.

Your body is a complex chemical conversion system. Watch YT videos from cubbyemu, he explains alcohol metabolism very distinctly and acutely, but basically the stuff that you ingest is mostly ethanol and liver breaks it down into 2 different compounds, when you’re able to it produces a compound which you can pass through your system similar to vinegar and kidneys etc. can expel it but if it can’t keep up then a highly toxic compound results called acetaldehyde which is like acetone and formaldehyde.

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