You hear this sometimes “oh Jimmy? Yeah he drank himself to death after his wife died” But this actually possible? Does the body reach a point where it can’t process alcohol at a certain point?
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You know how when you walk all over the place with no shoes, your feet begin to get very tough on the bottom? The skin dies but it doesn’t shed or peel off like a sunburn, because our bodies are evolved to do that if walking on dirt and rocks is what we need to do to survive.
Well, what if the only food we could find as cavemen was fruit from a tree where the fruit was usually fermented? Your liver will process alcohol for it’s calories, but it will also begin to harden. Your liver will let you know that this is bad for you, and it will begin hurt.
However, if you need alcohol to survive, it will continue to process it, while still incentivizing you to find an alternative food source. Your liver can repair a lot of the damage that you do to it, and I’ve read that (if you quit drinking) in three years it can be completely turned over into a new liver, bit by bit. That being said, if you punish your liver until it can’t repair itself, that bad.
Fruit wine can get you very drunk, but…hard liquor uses your liver as a punching bag. It seems that once a year or so, some college freshman gets a hazing where they are forced to drink too much booze in just one night, and they die. Everyone’s tolerance is different.
I am not a doctor.
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