re: 27 year old cirrhosis

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I kid, I kid, but brah, there are men who work in the searing summer heat who put down a 6 pack like it's aqua. 6 beers per day is silly business to millions and millions of blue collar workers. To the OP, although the rate of young people getting cirrhosis is skyrocketing (diet, including energy drinks, is likely just as responsible as alcohol), you probably don't have cirrhosis, but you do need to slow down. Way down. Because when you're in your mid-to-late 30s and the humdrum, every day grind of mid-life hits, that 40 beers will turn to 84 beers per week, and the only fix is to keep it going because the hangovers get worse and worse. Sweating it out at work (or the gym) helps to prolong it ("help" being relative), but it will spiral out of control, and you're talking to a heavy hitter who just a few short years ago was drinking a fifth of maker's mark 46 per day: it will increase. Alcoholism doesn't run in my family, it GALLOPS. Being attuned to alcoholic tendencies, one thing I've noticed is that women absolutely cannot come close to men when it comes to daily alcohol consumption for years on end. They die from it much sooner, and in far less quantities. Genetics also play a part, but the above holds true, generally speaking. That said, my uncle drank a suitcase of old milwaukee, then natty light, for 40 years. He was functional: Woke up every morning at 4:30, held a union electrician job for 40 years until retirement, and never had any major screw ups. The last time I went to see him before he died of cirrhosis, I had to step out of the room while they changed his bloody diaper because he was shitting himself and bleeding out of every orifice of his body. He didn't know the world around him except for excruciating pain, and light beer did it to him. Took 40 to 50 years, but it finally did him in. I love alcohol like a honeybee loves sweet nectar, and I am by no means righteous, but if you don't slow down, it's likely that you too, once you get into middle age and begin daily binge drinking, will also succumb to the same thing or complications from it. Daily alcohol consumption should be treated with the same steadfastness as a man holding a loaded gun, and in both scenarios he is suicidal, whether he knows it or not: Both will kill you, but one is a slow burn, taking everything that you love and hold dear before you deal yourself the final blow. And the struggle is that you can buy it in gas stations and grocery stores every day of the week without so much as a 2nd glance. It won't get easier, and you have 3 options: Stop completely, take it seriously and stay vigilant and partake responsibly for the rest of your life, or be an alcoholic and die from it long after you've killed every semblance of a normal life. There is no option in between.

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that's antidotal horseshite

anyone that does drink that much has a problem and has a miserable fricking life.

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