Is Is Possible To Drink This Much??

[Smowball]

My friends rang me and asked the following: Her sister in law has just told her that her brother ( my friends brother) is in a drying out clinic as he is an alcoholic and he has been drinking between 7 - 10 bottles of wine a DAY. She's also told my friend not to say anything to anybody and won't tell her where the clinic is. My friend for a start is absolutely shocked as she sees him every few months and says nothing untoward was showing. But she says is it actually possible to drink that amount regularly and not be dead by now? It seems an almost impossible amount to me to drink without being unconscious after say 3 maybe but I really don't know. What do you think?? Can you drink that amount and still be awake?

[theprof]

Nothing to do with drugs 237SJ. Metabolic Pathways in simple terms resemble flowcharts. The tinkering merely involves changing the route of the pathways around the liver, which in turn means that some substances are never formed and new substances will come into existence. I eliminated the formation of toxic substances within the pathways by going back to the point at which they were formed as a result of alcohol and effectively modifying the pathway to produce non-toxic substances.

At the time, I was a senior lecturer in human biochemistry and I submitted the article as a bit of a joke. I was amazed that I had the response that I did over it and it seemed no one else had thought of it.

[Smowball]

I'm absolutely amazed that the liver can tolerate so much!

[anneasquith]

NB. Females have a lower tolerance for alcohol .