Why is alcohol a looksmin?

[Lux]

I've never really understood besides it being empty calories. Especially how makes you age worse. If anything, since it's a vasodilator it should increase collagen production.

 

[Lux]

Guess there is the estrogen component but shouldn't make you age worse.

 

[Deleted member 7076]

I think the effect on liver makes everything else that passes through the liver happen suboptimally, which would probably be bad in the long term

but i agree, my skin is always the best when im on alcohol and even my lips look better

 

[Deleted member 7076]

Are you still niacin flushing daily? How's that going?

 

[Lux]

Are you still niacin flushing daily? How's that going?

I think the results have kinda flatlined but definitely a big difference in complexion & skin quality.

 

[Deleted member 13076]

Alcohol ages you if you drink it regularly, that's why brits all age like trash despite hardly having any sun exposure. If you need to get drunk to chill/cope keep it at spirits

 

[Deleted member 643]

Ethanol metabolization induces oxidative stress.

 

[cube]

The drugs giveth and the drugs taketh. I would recommend sticking to steroids where at least what they give is semi-permanent.

 

[grimy]

Lowers testosterone first and foremost

 

[AsGoodAsItGets]

I've never really understood besides it being empty calories. Especially how makes you age worse. If anything, since it's a vasodilator it should increase collagen production.

In addition to the other points mentioned,

• its usually mixed with sugary shit, atleast coke - ie sugar - bad
• empty calories
• usually leads to low inhib on diet / other drugs - junk food and / or smoking, coce, md etc leading to habit formation due to messing with neurochemistry
• can fuck up your stomach leading to low absorption of nutrinets
• can worsen certain health conditions like uric acid
• can create dependency on alcohol to socialise. (still a great way to start socialising, may or may not create dependency)
• alcohol rots teeth. so does coke and other additives (brit stereotype)

ngl it does make my skin look "flushed" with a red glow as well as low oil (like the accutane effect), but its mostly due to dehydration and / or possibly vasodilation

If you're in your 18-24, I would'nt worry about it. drank alcohol literally almost everyday during that period (went to a party school fml). If youre in the in-crowd, slcohol is like the means of communication. i don't remember anyone who was cool who didn't drink (or smoke tbh, maybe different now). even high iq slayers who killed gpas drank. also suffered from some of the above issues tbh

 

[damnit]

Its more like healthmin , well aside from resveratrol found in wine.

 

[Deleted member 2729]

Ethanol is used as a solvent in the chemical industry and noone in their right mind would drink this type of substances normally. Imagine drinking a nice bottle of tetrahydrofuran or dimethylether jfl. Also Ethanol gets metabolized into Acetaldehyde which is relatively toxic.

 

[ChangeOfHeart]

It's literally poison.