WEBVTT - How Alcoholism Works 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:10.960 Welcome to stuff you should know Friendhouse Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.840 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:19.480 w Chuck Bryant, and Jerry, and Chuck's got a noise machines. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.680 It was could turn into like Morning Zoo type episode. No, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.920 I'm not gonna use it. It's a lame one. It 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.479 is pretty lame. Like is it marked? What does it do? 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.400 How many different functions does they have? Chuck down two 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.120 three four one two three four five, that would be 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.800 twenty twenty. Nice job. You just use multiplications, right, But 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.440 like I said when I first sat down, it doesn't 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.440 even have a fark sound. So how good of a 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.200 noise machine could it be? How does it not? It's 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.720 got a burp? I mean they make sound machines. They 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.360 just have that sound. Well, yeah, it's called a whoopie cushion. Yeah, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:59.880 I don't know if that's a machine though probably not. Okay, device, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.959 I don't think I said this stuff you should know 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.840 in case you hadn't figured it out. Well, someone just 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.520 stumbled upon this and they're horrified. They turned it off 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.119 a good minute ago. Yeah, and we're gonna talk about 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.840 alcoholism and there's nothing more fun than that, right, This 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.479 one should be a laugh riot. Right, Well, you can 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.600 definitely perk things up with your little noise machine over there. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:23.040 I wouldn't do that. Uh, so alcoholism, Chuck turns out, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.559 in researching this, um, we should say, let us shout 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.399 out to some previous episodes that really tie into this totally. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.680 We did prohibition. Colin turns out America really loves to drink. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:39.240 That was one episode we did addiction, Yeah, good one. Uh. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:44.080 And we did one on rehab yep, another good one. Um. Yeah. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.000 And then if you want to count like beer, yeah, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.320 the booze ones or I think we did one on moonshine, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.600 we did one on and Whiskey Runners. Do we do 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.600 one on Whiskey Runners? We ended up doing like two 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:02.480 somehow on Whiskey Runners. Yeah? What else? Oh, I'm sure 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.240 there are others, but I think the ones on addiction 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:11.359 and rehab definitely factor in. Indeed so um. In running 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.360 across this though, I was reminded that yes, America loves drinking, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.960 the world does, but not necessarily. I saw a statistic 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:25.600 that blew me away. Sixties six percent of the human 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:30.880 beings over age. I believe fifteen worldwide have not had 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.200 a drink in the last twelve months, according to a 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.440 major survey like World Health Organization Type level survey. I 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.880 don't remember where I saw it because I saw so 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:45.080 many different statistics here there, but like, the majority of 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.280 the population of the Earth has not had a drink 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.240 in the last twelve months. Interesting. Yeah, I thought that 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.760 was interesting too. And of course there's entire countries that 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.400 are basically teetotally, yeah, And there are entire countries that 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.400 are drunk, right, so, UM in America is definitely one 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:06.360 of them. Right, America loves to drink. We drink very regularly. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.160 At other countries, they don't drink necessarily during the week, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:15.359 but they really plow into it on the weekends. UM, 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.560 and all of this falls, it turns out, falls under 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:23.600 this umbrella called UM. Alcohol use disorders, binge drinking, alcohol abuse, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:28.239 and alcoholism three different things they are. Although you could 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.760 say that binge drinking is a type of alcohol abuse, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:36.840 it's a behavioral pattern drinking behavior UM. But yes, alcohol 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.120 abuse is not necessarily alcoholism, and neither has binge drinking. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.119 Alcoholism is its own thing. Yeah, alcohol abuse is if 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.320 you are drinking, if there's a problem with your drinking. Um, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.800 it's affecting your school, your work, your personal life, your family, 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:57.840 your friends. You could be an alcohol abuser. Um. Alcoholism 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.320 is a chronic disease where you are physically dependent on alcohol. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.400 You need to drink, You've got to have that drink. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.160 Once you start drinking, you have a hard time stopping. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.280 You develop a tolerance for drinking, so you need to 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.560 drink more. And if you stop drinking, you suffer withdrawal symptoms. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.599 That's alcoholism, right, And you suffer withdrawal symptoms because, like 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.040 you said, you've become physically dependent on it. And we'll 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.440 talk about how in this episode. But yes, alcohol abuse, 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.840 that just means you need to get your your act 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:34.440 together big time. Sure. Alcoholism a chronic disease. Yeah, it 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.840 means you need medical help. And and beyond medical help 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.720 psychological help, you need treatment. Yeah. You're probably not going 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.240 to be able to do it on your own now, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.200 and with alcohol abuse you may need treatment as well. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.599 Everyone's different. Uh yeah, Yeah. I don't think we should 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.520 chase people away from seeking treatment alcohol abusers and not 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.720 necessarily alcoholics. I think probably if you're a serious abuser 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.240 of alcohol, you probably feel like an alcohol like in 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.240 a lot of ways. Yeah. I mean, if you woke 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.680 up this morning and you don't remember where you were 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.760 last night for five hours, abuser of alcohol, you may 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.160 want to you know, check into that a little bit, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.839 or you may not. Well, yeah, and it depends. I 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.960 think a lot of people think that, um, if they 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.120 if they are an abuser of alcohol, that they have 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.680 to just stop entirely for the rest of their lives. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.560 Not necessarily. I mean back in nineteen yes, that was 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.920 probably the case. These days, there's been a different approach 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:35.640 to managing alcoholism and alcohol abuse to where you definitely 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.400 don't have to abstain, although it's still like the model. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.600 And again it depends on the person. Some people can 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:47.240 do that. Um. Some people can drink socially, uh and 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.679 never have a problem. Some people can have a problem 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.800 go back to just drinking socially. And some people need 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.880 to just they just can't have it anymore. And they 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.440 know that, you know. And the key is to find 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.480 out what kind of person you are, you know, Yes, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.320 by stopping, that's how you find out. Probably, so you 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.640 see what happens when you stop, Yeah, exactly. Uh. There 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:15.280 are more than seventeen million Americans who are either alcoholic 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.719 or abuse alcohol more men than women, um, apparently ten 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:25.400 percent to three to five. And uh, this says that 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.360 if you have fourteen or more drinks a week as 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.720 a man, or seven or more drinks per week as 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.960 a woman, you are at risk for alcoholism. And do 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:38.320 you know why because the National Institutes of Health themselves 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:43.279 define moderate drinking as fourteen drinks a week or less 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.159 for a man, in seven drinks a week or less 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.400 for a woman. Like, that's moderate drinking in the United 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.040 States as far as like a couple of beers a night. Yeah, 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.240 that seems about right to me. It does. And if 0:06:55.279 --> 0:07:00.240 you're if you are um enraged by this gender disparity, yeah, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.880 let's all just calm down because it has to do 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:08.919 with uh usually body type and metabolism. Yeah, of course. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.360 And it's not like, little lady, do you only get 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.600 half the drinks because we're drinking the rest I've done, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.360 We're drinking your share. None some ladies that can drink 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.400 me under the table. Sure, but it's the average, that's right. Um. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.080 It is more prevalent among younger folks than older people 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:32.120 as well. Uh, and it will touch many people's lives, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.040 whether or not you or an abuser an alcoholic. Uh. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.840 They say that more than Americans have been exposed to 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.120 alcoholism somewhere in their family. Um, I'm surprised it's not 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:43.840 a little more than that. I was surprised by that 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.600 statistic too. I wonder, um, this this article is fairly old. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.360 We had to go through an update some of the stats. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.400 But UM, I'm wondering if if that's more or less 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.600 these days, because it does seem low. Yeah, I mean 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.720 if you're talking about your extended family, because it doesn't 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.240 say idiot family, and and that's I mean, that brings 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.680 up you know, one of the things. One of the 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.760 reasons everybody's like you shouldn't be an alcoholic. Alcoholism is 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.800 a problem is not just because of what it does 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.200 to the individual, but because the effects that has on 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.720 people who are raised by alcoholics. Yeah, you're I think 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.160 four times more likely to become an alcoholic if one 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.720 of your parents is an alcoholic. Yeah, you also are 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:27.960 more likely to experience anxiety, depression, behavioral problems. And um, 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.880 there's a lot of programs that are geared towards helping 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:36.240 children of alcoholics cope. Yeah, my grand paternal grandfather was 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:41.800 a nasty drunk. Uh. He died when I was like five, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.560 so I didn't know him very well. But um as 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.040 went with my father. My father like didn't drink. So 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.280 it can go both ways. You know, you might become 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.440 an alcoholic or you might be like, no, no, no, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.480 that was your dad's dad. Yeah, I'm not touching that stuff. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.959 And uh, I don't think my dad. Maybe he drinks 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.760 a little bit here and there now, but he pretty 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.480 much was just like now, Like, I grew up in 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.440 a household withou no alcohol because my mom didn't drink either, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.640 So I wonder what happened to me. I went to college. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.440 That was I was gonna say, I don't have anybody 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.160 in my family who with a history like that. Yeah. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.760 I will say this though, and going through the adoption process, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.559 it really makes you take a look at your own 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.920 lineage and not be super precious about it. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.240 because you pick out tolerances of what you will accept 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.920 in birth parents, like if they have disease or mental 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.760 illness or alcoholism or drug abuse and there, and you 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.880 start to think about your own family and extended family. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.920 You're like, oh, wait a minute, there's alcoholism and drug 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.800 abuse and mental illness and suicide attempts, and it makes 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.079 you think, oh, well, it's not like my seed is 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:54.720 anything special, you know. So I thought it was pretty interesting. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.160 Uh does a growing experience. It was a growing experience. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.240 So um, some people, like we said, can drink and 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.720 it doesn't become a problem as an abuser or as 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.040 an alcoholic. Some people do and they think there are 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:16.280 give me a combination of factors including genetic, physiological, psychological, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.400 and social. Yeah, the genes they haven't. They don't know 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.800 the gene. They're pretty sure that there is a genetic link. Yeah. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.439 I thought, surely this article is old enough that if 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.640 I just do a search now I'll find well, they 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.839 know this gene and this gene are involved. Now I 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.600 couldn't find any genes named. The reason why they think 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.679 there's a genetic link is thanks to twins studies. They 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.120 found that alcoholism is more prevalent among identical twins than 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.760 among fraternal twins, which suggests that there is a genetic 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.640 component to it. And they also think that genes play 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:52.200 a role in for for like an individual whose um 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:59.400 pleasure circuit is like just really highly tuned. Ye, So physiologically, 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.600 if you're dope, I mean just goes off the charts 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.040 more than someone else's might, then you might be more 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.240 at risks. Yeah, you're gonna be like, I want to 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.199 do that again, Give me another, give me another beer? 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:14.120 Right whatever or ten? Right? Yeah. Well yeah, and that's 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.400 another thing we didn't necessarily point out early on, is 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:23.679 an alcoholic there's no stopping. Like stopping equals like falling 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.880 over and blacking out or being arrested or um running 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.880 out of um alcohol in the entire house and not 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.520 being able to like find their keys to go get more. Uh. Yeah, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.160 I don't know if that's like a daily thing, like 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.319 there are alcoholics who drink every night and don't drink 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:50.880 too blackout proportions, um, but that certainly can happen. Uh Psychologically, Um, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.080 if you suffer from depression or if you don't feel 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.080 very good about yourself, you have low self esteem, you 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.560 probably be more likely to develop alcoholism as a drinker. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.079 And then socially, of course, Uh, we talked to I 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.000 don't think we've done one just on pure pressure, but 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.720 we talked about it a lot. Yeah, and that's a 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.880 big reason why kids will uh start drinking and then 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.880 factor in what they see around them every day, having 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:21.040 advertisements and TV and movies like whatever, Bill or whatever. Um, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.560 I think it's like bud Light, like they put together 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.559 a whole town that's just like one big party all 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.520 the time, fueled by by light. Yeah. Man, And then 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.280 like these new absolute ads that are's just like these 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.120 crazy like eyes wide shut parties and everybody's like it's 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:40.920 just so incredibly rich and glamorous and having like like 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.520 they're just so out of control having a great time. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.080 They're they're also clearly like snorting ecstasy or something too. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.200 But like it's an absolute ad, you know. So yeah, 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.720 if you're like fourteen, you're like, I want to be 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.000 at that party. As a matter of fact, maybe if 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.320 I open this bottle of absolute right here and invite 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.400 a few friends or that party will start in my house. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.880 They definitely said to the wrong message, And I'm surprised 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.160 that this stuff is allowed and not a little bit more. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.959 You know, I guess I can't do anything. There are 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.160 regulations for alcohol advertisements, but yes, you can't. You can't 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:19.360 suggest that alcohol is fun. You like, you might have 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:23.760 to rethink every campaign we've ever done. Uh, some signs 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.360 that you may have be an alcoholic is if you 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.240 I don't want to eat anymore, you don't really care 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.200 about food, if you drink alone, that's one of the 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.280 big ones. They say. If you're lying about your drinking 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.840 or secretly drinking. Um, that's a big one. Like if 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.400 you're telling you know your family like have stopped, have stopped, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.480 and you're mixing the vodka with orange juice in the morning, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.240 You've got like a bad sign. Yeah, very bad signs. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.800 What are you gonna say, you got like booze stashed 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:57.040 around the house. Uh. And then if you're drinking to 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.720 forget your problems, which I think that's why a lot 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.920 of people drink. If you're unhappy when you're not drinking 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:11.240 and super touchy and irritable, or if you're suffering from 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.400 those blackouts, if you're blacking out a lot. Then although 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:21.000 alcohol efficts some people differently, I'm not a blackouter. Um, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.200 even though I've had times where I've had way too 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.480 much to drink, I never really black out. But some 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.520 people black out pretty easily. So that might be a 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.680 sign that alcohol affects you differently. You might want to 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.360 take a look. Yeah, and that's another argument in favor 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:39.480 of genetics. It's people experience things differently, you know. Um, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.680 so we are going to dive into your body, the 0:14:43.720 --> 0:15:11.160 body of the alcoholics right after this message, So chuck. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.800 The drink has been taken. Um. And the first thing 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.080 that happens when it hits the gut as it starts 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.600 getting absorbed. Well, the first thing that happens is it 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:26.640 says here I am, and it starts irritating your stomach. Lining. Yeah, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.600 it's funny that that. It's not funny. But like you 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.200 take an alcohol in your body, and your body immediately 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.640 it's like, no, it's not like your body doesn't want 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.480 the alcohol, right right. It starts trying to get rid 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.320 of it in every way possible as soon as it 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.680 enters your body. Yeah. So alcohol is a poison start with, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:48.600 but your body metabolizes it into an even worse poison. Yeah. Um, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.280 and yeah, it wants to get rid of it immediately, 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.000 so which is why you vomit sometimes. That's right. It 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.560 is absorbed in the stomach and the other is absorbed 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.200 in the small intestine. And depending what you're drinking, it's 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.880 going to be absorbed quicker or more slowly. So like 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:11.920 vodka will be absorbed faster than beer because vodka has 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.320 a higher alcoholic content. That's right. It's a concentration of 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:20.720 alcohol higher than beer. That's right. When you go, when 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:26.160 your body starts to metabolize it, Um, about ten as 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.680 removed in urine and breath by the kidneys and lungs, 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.280 and then your liver takes care of the rest. Yeah, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.520 and it takes takes a beating in the process. Yeah, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.920 because again it's a toxin. It's also a carcinogen. Did 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.120 you know that? I found that out researching this um. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.720 And as your lungs are or as your liver is 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.840 trying to just get rid of all this stuff and 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.920 metabolize it and break it down into other parts. Um, 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.800 you're you're drinking more and more and more, which can 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.280 kill you, Like in a night, it can kill you 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.480 can die very easily from consuming too much alcohol in 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.720 a single sitting. Yeah, apparently they have that quantified um 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:11.000 is your blood alcohol content or blood alcohol concentration goes up. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.280 That's where you drink faster than your liver is able 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.119 to metabolize it and process the alcohol, which results in 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.359 you're getting drunker and drunker, right, Um, but after you 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.800 get to a blood alcohol content of point three five um, 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:31.640 two point five percent, which I guess is like if 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.119 you just take any and like a cube excent a 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.920 leader of blood point three of that would be alcohol. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.199 That seems like a lot. Well, that's what puts you 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.080 in an alcohol induced coma, So I would think it's 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.960 a lot. So up to a half of a percent, 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.320 you're you're only at risk of a coma. After a 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.720 half of a percent, you're facing death. Like Alexander the Great. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.840 Uh oh did he die from alcohol poison? Allegedly he 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.560 did from a wine drinking contest. That's never a good 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.679 idea food and drinking contest in general. We did one 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.480 on those on food contests, but I don't think those 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.920 are ever a good idea. No, you know who else 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.840 does it? Ryan Reynolds hates eating contests? Oh really? Yeah? 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:20.680 What did he make a stand? Like? Uh, just a 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.159 social media stand? Probably? No. He wrote a essay in 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.000 the Huffington Post about how just disgraceful and what a 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.239 waste it is. It's just it's such an arrogant thing 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.320 to do in eating contest while people are starving. And 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.200 then you would love this essay and he put a 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.480 picture of his six pack. Abs said, plus, you can't 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:45.680 look like this, bam uh. Let's talk about the brain, 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.760 because it definitely affects your brain. Specifically, it is going 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.840 to alter the levels of your neurotransmitters, and those are 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.520 what sends those chemical messages all around and your body. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.399 And that's why you're gonna end up slurring and stumbling 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:05.040 and losing motor function because it's dumbing you down. Yeah, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.000 your brain is not able to communicate with itself or 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.080 the rest of your body the way it's supposed to 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.800 because the neuro transmitters are being affected, and two in 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.960 particular are being affected. Gabba, our friend that puts us 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.879 to sleep, is increased. Gabba release or GABA production is 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:28.159 increased when alcohol is introduced to the body. Right, and 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.800 then glutamate actually, which is an excitatory neurotransmitter get you up, 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.200 up up, gives you some PEP, is actually reduced when 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:43.160 you drink alcohol. So you go from sleepy to sloppy 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.480 because gabas increased and glutamates decreased. Yeah, and this whole 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.960 time you go from sleepy to sloppy, but your dopamine 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.920 is through the roof so sleepy or slappy you're going, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:58.400 isn't this great? This is the best thing ever. Speaking 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.120 of great, I think you're great. Uh. And that's all 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.440 because of dopamine. You know. When I saw this, now 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.840 I saw glutamate. It makes me wonder if the brain 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.920 has a new mommy taste to it. Gross, But don't 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:16.480 you wonder though you need brains? Yeah you can. You 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.200 can get them in like a can at the grocery store. Yeah, 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.199 you can get You can get them in a fancy 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:27.640 restaurant else, other places that you quick trip, quick trip. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.439 Sure you can get everything a quick trip. And that 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:34.160 was impotted meat. I'm sure there's some impot of meat, 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.439 but I think potted meat makes like a brains brand, 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:42.560 a brains brand brains. Yeah, so gross. I used to 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:44.600 work at the Golden Pantry, you know, in Athens, and 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.439 we had dudes that would come in there, like you know, 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.880 road workers that would get their like pack of salt 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.479 teas and potted meat was there lunch. They would get 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.520 on the way to work and like a ninety eight 0:20:54.600 --> 0:21:01.200 ounce mountain dew that's healthy living, brother, their arm would 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.240 just fall off on their way out the door. Yeah. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:08.400 And a few packs of cigarettes to probably um. So 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.679 how specifically their regions of the brain that are specifically 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.479 affected in different ways. I guess we should go over 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:18.119 that too. Sure, Like the cerebral cortex, Well, the cerebral cortex, right, 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.280 that's your That's where your executive function is located. That's 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:25.159 where things like maybe I should stop drinking for the 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:30.440 night decisions are located, or um, maybe I shouldn't get 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.960 in a fight with that cop um, or maybe I 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:37.000 shouldn't start that fire. Whatever. All of this stuff is 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.719 located here in your prefrontal cortex, right, and it becomes 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:45.760 impaired again because your neurotransmitters are reduced, they're being affected, 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.520 and your brain is not communicating with itself any longer. 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:53.760 So the boss, the executive function is basically silenced, and 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.000 that actually has a one to punch as far as 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.560 alcohol consumption is concerned. Not only is your judgment impaired, 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:02.960 meaning you're behavior just takes all sorts of left turns 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:07.560 while you're drunk, right, but also remember we said the 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.760 reward pathway is activated by alcohol and your dope means 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:15.600 going crazy. Well, your prefrontal cortex is also responsible for 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:22.080 um judging whether a pleasurable experience has an adaptive um 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:26.320 benefit to it. Yeah, whether it's worth it. The thing is, 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.080 when this is impaired, you're that part of your brain 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:31.719 is not able to judge drinking is not worth it. 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.240 So it's all totally worth it. So it's all pleasure. 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:38.760 So it has like this this really um, this crazy effect. 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:42.520 I mean, alcohol is so smart. It knows what it's doing. Yeah, 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:45.959 I mean it lowers your inhibitions and that. Uh, if 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:49.639 you're abusing alcohol, that's a bad thing. Um, if you 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:52.760 have a glass of wine before you have to, you know, 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.760 go up on stage, that's a different thing. Oh, well 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:58.439 you're the exception. I guess. Huh that said a glass 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.800 of wine, not twelve classes. Why I was speaking of 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.080 this is fresh air I've been meaning to listen to 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:11.480 with an author named, um oh, Sarah Hippola or Hippola. 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:13.119 I haven't listened yet, so I don't know how to 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.359 say her last name, but she as a recovering alcoholic 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:19.120 and she apparently, it says in the description she got 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:21.840 up and spoke in front of like a crowd of 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:25.200 three hundred um and was so drunk that she had 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:29.280 no recollection of it the next day. Can you imagine that? Man, 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:32.479 that's my worst nightmare. I mean, like going on on stage. 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:34.920 You're like, okay, am I all right, Like I'm relaxed, 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:38.520 but I'm not too relaxed, right, Like being blackout drunk 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:43.359 on stage. That's wow, that is a scary thought. So, Chuck, 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:46.640 that's just the prefrontal cortex we've been talking about. There's 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:49.160 other regions of the brain that gets smacked around by 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:53.479 alcohol's effect. That's right, the cerebellum. That's your movement and balance. 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:58.280 So that's why you're stumbling around because that is impaired. Uh, 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:04.440 your hypothalamus, simpituitare e um hormone release and automatic brain functions. 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:07.959 So they depressed the nerves and the hypothalamus and they 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:12.000 we're talking about sexual arousal. You might be more aroused, 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:14.480 but you might not be able to perform sexually at 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:18.640 the same time. So that's a it's very negative. That's 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:23.840 a mixed message alcoholics. You know, like, hey, go talk 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:26.880 to that that girl over there and uh, maybe see 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:30.280 what happens. And then physically you're like, well, nothing's happening. 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.480 It's embarrass yourself time. Yeah, Like what you set me 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:38.879 up alcohol. And then there's the medulla. That's right. The 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:41.800