Exactly. My bf goes to the gym, runs in the morning and drink 1-2 shots of really good Khor vodka, I believe it's one of the best selling vodka in world (cause if you drink some crap for $0.1. and much of it, you shouldn't expect good health)
Honestly how bad is alcohol on the body? (read description)
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No it doesn’t. If you look after yourself, alcohol will not impact you as long as it is once in a while. I eat a fully paleo diet, supplement and exercise every day. I drink red wine about four times a year, usually around 2-4 glasses. That, is fine. Drinking every day while eating rubbish, is not fine.
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Not that bad really. You just have a bunch of teetotalers espousing their views much like evangelical Christians.
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A couple people mentioned this, but without fail, if I have 2-3 drinks, the next morning my resting heart rate is about 10 bpm higher than normal.
You know what else makes my resting heart rate higher? Being sick. Being dehydrated. And not being recovered from a hard workout. So I would say alcohol impedes recovery to some extent and isn’t ideal during training.
That said, I still drink sometimes, just like I still eat candy and stay up too late and sometimes skip workouts. Life is all about balance. Sometimes the fun choice beats the healthy one!
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Alcohol is very bad for our organism and the abusive use of provides the addiction. Alcohol abuse can occur over a long period of time, making it hard to pinpoint dramatic changes in behavior. Alcoholism is moving beyond casual drinks with friends. In many situations, addiction occurs when tolerance develops. I read from https://fherehab.com/alcohol-addiction/ that this is not a joke and I started to drink rarely this poison. Earlier I was drinking every weekend but now it happens once per month.
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Could you tell me some more information about it? Let’s talk in PM
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most likely OP is an addict in denial wrote:
skeptic sandy wrote:
What? I drink only a few beers a week. I was just wondering. I know guuys like Shorter, Pre, etc all hit the booze pretty hard so I was curious. They are still alive and doing well and raced well
Got bad news for you about Pre. Anyway, you are rationalizing too much in the original post for me to believe you don't have a problem.
Even worse, Pre actually was killed by booze. Was drunk driving after a party and crashed his car. The coroner measured a BAC of 0.16
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A little bit of alcohol isn't bad for you, and I think once in awhile could be good for you. Just to poison your body a bit and get it going.
People who drink more than once every 2 weeks are drinking too much. Its a poison.
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Alcohol is harmful by all accounts. The only excuse is that it helps you sleep. It is well known that alcohol helps you fall asleep more quickly, but the sleep of a drunk person is by no means serene. The presence of alcohol in the bloodstream disturbs the order and duration of sleep phases. When a person falls asleep while drunk, he immediately enters deep sleep, but in the second half of the night, the body begins to eliminate toxins, actively shortening the deep sleep phase. Consequently, the body does not have time to complete the vital processes. A man wakes up tired, sluggish, and dehydrated. Therefore, people who read that alcohol is useful should read at least https://www.theluckiestclub.com/resources/how-to-remain-in-sobriety-after-dry-january and draw conclusions.
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I am a runner for almost 50 years and until 15 years ago was drinking alcoholic like. I was in denial until I lost almost everything.
When I was younger I thought I was impervious to it, but here I am barely scraping by at 61 years old.
If you are drinking more than once a week and more than two, please stop. I am at the point where if I were to have just one, I would be off to the races.
I went through all of my savings, drinking everyday, I finally stopped but the damage was done
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Alcohol can't be good but South Koreans drink like like fish with long life expectancy unlike Americans. So Big Mac's and dairy are probably much worse than alcohol.
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Sasha Pachev wrote:
I grew up in Russia, and managed to never drink. It did help that we saw a lot of drunks on the street. My mother would on occasion come home from work with an entertaining story about "a comrade" (the word people often used for Sir or Mister) that "was walking along a sinusoid". So when the time came to learn about a sinusoid in math, I already had an idea of what it was like!
It was not a rare occasion for a confused drunk to start banging on our door thinking that he came to his apartment. From a young age I learned some vocabulary - this happened often enough for the language to have just one word for those things: "спился" (drank himself to death or into serious illness), "пропил" (spent all of it on alcohol), "запой" (long drinking bout). Once in a while a neighbor would die - very often as a result of smoking and drinking. There would be a coffin right next to the apartment entrance door, a wreath, his wife sobbing bitterly and wearing black, funeral music, and the funeral bus to take the deceased and the family to the cemetery.
So from a young age I resolved to never touch alcohol - not even on special occasions. When I started running at the age of 11, this resolve got even stronger. When I joined the LDS Church at age of 19, I made it a matter of a special covenant between myself and the Lord. I credit in part what I have been able to achieve in running to my resolve to abstain from alcohol and other harmful substances. But this pales in comparison to how this has enabled me to get married, stay married, and be a father to ten children.
Tight, brah.
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skeptic sandy wrote:
We know it is bad for a sedentary, average fat American these studies all do.
What about for someone who is in early 20's, running 90-100 mpw with 2-3 workouts a week, who eats mainly raw and lots of fruits and vegetables, sleeps 8-9 hr a night, stays hydrated etc. Supping with milk thistle, getting lots of sunshine etc
Like does it really hurt a hardcore runner the same as a slob? Sure it's gotta be way less harmful. Lots of pros drink and race fast and have longevity
New evidence shows that any alcohol actually shrinks the brain. The more, the more accelerated. Even the theory that some was good is not right anymore. Alcohol is probably just negative. I prescribe running twice a day instead. That makes me feel really good and no need for alcohol.
They looked at 37000 UK middle/old aged to see if alcohol consumption and brain characteristics collerated and it did. The more they drank the more the impact on the brain, actually at an exponential rate meaning if you cut the drinking in half the effect is reduced more than half.
I thought drinking som red wine would be good each day, and have had plans to start that tradition, but I won't now... No alcohol is best
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It will hurt you more than the sedentary folk because your body will divert resources from adapting/getting stronger from the workouts to clearing out the toxin. Potentially making the last workout counterproductive/reducing to overall fitness level.
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