Alcohol Kills YOU

There are NO health benefits to drinking alcohol, AND alcohol is deadly for you to consume on a regular basis. Virtually every health study that says alcohol is good for you divides people into three categories:

1. Those Who Don't Drink.
2. Those Who Drink Lightly But Regularly.
3. Those Who Obviously Have a Drinking Problem.

When studies show this, what happens is Those Who Obviously Have a Drinking Problem have the most health problems, but Those Who Drink Lightly But Regularly have the least health problems. 

The problem is that they have put two TOTALLY DIFFERENT groups of people into category 1. The two groups are Those Who Never Drink on a Regular Basis, and Those Who Were Forced to Stop Drinking Because of Alcohol Related Health Problems. If we separate these groups from each other, we then have the following groups, listed here in order of most healthy to least healthy:

1. Those Who Never Drink on a Regular Basis are by far the most healthy statistically.
2. Those Who Drink Lightly But Regularly are starting to have some health problems likely related to their alcohol consumption.
3. Those Who Obviously Have a Drinking Problem almost always have alcohol related health problems that could be potentially fatal.
4. Those Who Were Forced to Stop Drinking Because of Health Problems have already had their health wrecked by alcohol.

The fact is Alcohol is a deadly poison, and the more you drink, the more it harms you. That's what the science actually says. Back in the 80's in public schools we were shown videos of what alcohol does to the human brain: turn into swiss cheese, literally putting liquid filled cavities where there used to be gray matter in the brain.  Science never has refuted that drinking reduces brain volume:

Nothing is more YOU than your BRAIN. Alcohol attacks THAT, Alcohol attacks YOU. Those who are selling you alcohol are directly undermining your existence. You voluntarily drinking is literally self-destruction!

Alcohol is one of the few drugs used for recreational use that can penetrate through all of the cell walls in your body's tissues. Some of the Ethanol when digested is converted into Acetaldehyde which can damage (if not destroy) all types of human cells before the human body can purge it. Alcohol wrecks some parts of your body (brain, lungs, liver) more than other parts (bones, muscle,) but it's bad for ALL of your body parts:

Consider the typical alcohol-related health problems that you normally hear about such as: 

"High blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, and digestive problems. Cancer of the breast, mouth, throat, esophagus, voice box, liver, colon, and rectum. Weakening of the immune system, increasing the chances of getting sick. Learning and memory problems, including dementia and poor school performance." 

When alcohol is brought up, people almost always forget to mention that it is a "Level 1 Carcinogen" on the level of "tobacco and asbestos" known to be a risk for every type of cancer. There isn't any "moderate" amount of Level 1 Carcinogen that you should be intentionally exposing yourself to:

What if I told you I had a combat strategy that could shrink my enemy's brain volume, put them at much higher risk of cancer, and attack every cell in their body? That's what drinking alcohol actually does to any enemy of mine without me doing ANYTHING. Opposite of self defense, drinking reduces:

• your ability to think strategically, both long term and short term.
• your ability to reflect and learn.
• your brain's over all health.
• your body's over all health and performance.
• your ability to stay out of prison.
• your ability to avoid dying in a violent crime.
• your ability to avoid dying in an accident.
• your ability to live a longer and more enjoyable life.

Abstinence from alcohol should be a training strategy of any serious self defense system or martial art. "What about drunken Kung Fu?" Those kung fu practitioners are intentionally pretending to be drunk to throw off opponents, to get their opponents to underestimate the Drunken Kung Fu Practioner. Actual drunk people per say are known to be clumsy, awkward, make poor decisions and otherwise be bad at defending themselves.

On a deeper level I must say my religious views have been even more reinforced by study of addiction: If there is any Higher Power out there that is benevolent towards you, wouldn't that benevolent Higher Power discourage you from drinking?