Message 20326 of 39188 in General Discussion

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> something is bad. The cafeine neutralizing the bodies defense system 
> is just a theory, speculation. But what is it based on? I don't 
> understand were all these problems come from. People talking about 
> bad health effects but no one shows some kind of evidence(is it a 
> hoax?). No tables, figures data or anything.

That thing about caffeine is in fact true...Doctors have studied the effects 
of caffeine for years.  Statistics can attribute stunted growth, weakened 
memmory and personality defects to it while proven science can attribute heart 
disease, weakened immune system, and blood thinning.  Ever notice that coffee 
drinkers end up calling in about 25% more sick days...especially during 
winter?  They know how bad caffeine is, people just don't care.

The actual effects related to mixing liquor certainly do raise questions when 
you combine an upper and a downer (historically a bad idea, however these two 
are both very mild).  By simply extending the logic from what's known about 
caffeine it's not unreasonable to draw the conclusions about what happens.  
Frankly, it's scientifically obvious, thinner blood and poor immune system 
(which does deal with the liver) will slow down the processing of alcohol.  
Combinine the lessening of memmory from caffeine with the various effects of 
alcohol and you're going to seem even dumber than just simply drinking.  And 
finally, caffeine is a diahretic and alcohol is an *absorption inhibitor (I 
will explain below), which means that combined the two are going to dry you up 
like standing in the Mojavi in July...Just think, now you're dried up, the 
alcohol is being broken down more slowly, and your brain functions are 
hindered in multiple ways.  That is bad news, and while I'm not strictly 
certain there are tests on the combined use I do know of tests for caffeine 
alone, and as I said, those make a great case all by their lonesome.

* Brief explaination on Diahretic vs. Absorption Inhibitors (I know there's a 
more accurate term in use, I forget what it is though).  As the name implies, 
Absorption Inhibitors prevent your body from taking certain things in.  With 
the case of alcohol, water and most other fluids are not taken in by the body 
very efficiently...This is why people aren't drinking just one glass to stop 
hangovers, they normally have to drink a few (often one between each drink).  
The reason is that each water is only delivering 25% (random number) of what 
it normally would.  A Diahretic is a different beast, it causes your body to 
expulse fluids.  Most people are pretty familiar with this, so I'm not going 
to spend any time explaining it.  But think about what happens when the two 
effects are put together.  Now you're body is pushing the fluid out and also 
limiting itself on how much comes back in.  It doesn't take a scientist to 
draw the conclusion on this one...

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Cody