Hi Jane,
 > AF> This is all what is known as "training the liver". The liver can take
 > AF> ever increasing amounts of alcohol (especially a young liver) up to
 > AF> a certain point...but does rely on recognising the type of alcoholic
 > AF> drink being consumed.
 > Bull.  What I was talking about in my post was the enzymes that have
 > been developed in some races over the years in response to the use of
 > alcohol.  Lieber did a lot of work in this regard, you might try to find
 > it in the infamous data base you claim to have access to.  I learned
 > about his work in 1979 so it had been out long before that, time enough
 > for it to reach Germany I would think.
 > The enzymes are alcoholdehydrgenase and catalase, among others.  Some
 > folks are born with a marked lack of alcoholdehydrogenase and some folks
 > have plenty.
 > What you are talking about is tolerance, and, no one but an alcoholic
 > can consume a large amount of alcohol and function.......in the very
 > early stages of the disease.
 Yes I was talking about tolerance...what else.
 > Just as the French...who are used to drinking wine.. AF> can not take
 > beer...so it is with wine with the Brits and Australians. AF> One does
 > not become "immune" to alcohol (it still destroys brain AF> cells and
 > burdens the digestive and excretory systems by hindering AF> the intake
 > of several vitamins and also upsetting the intestinal AF> flora), one
 > just develops a certain increasing, albeit negative AF> "tolerance" up
 > to a point. This has nothing to do with genetics. AF> It's the same
 > with tobacco and other drugs.
 > I vomited more Vodka than I ever managed to keep down.  In my case, it
 > is an allergy to potatoes.  That is another factor in the use of
 > beverage alcohol.....allergies.
 Allergies hve nothing to do with the issue at hand and would tend
 to drive a person towards avoiding beverages which produce an allergic
 reaction.
 > And since you refuse to admit that enzymes have anything to do with this
 > or that allergies exist, you won't be able to understand what I wrote.
 I have never refused to admit anything about enzymes or allergies,
 merely that there is such a thing as a genetic alcoholic.
 To return to the issue of tolerance, it is perfectly possible for
 a person to develop a certain tolerance to alcohol (although not
 a healthy thing to do of course) without becoming an alcoholic.
 The present world would be in a much sorrier state if this were
 not the case.
 Alan
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