Fixing my problems
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It is best to drink clean alcohol like vodka and mix it with orange juice as fructose helps limit hypoglycemia. Only drink in moderation though
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If I drink it's going to be bourbon. A glass of whisky has more antioxidants than red wine. So drinking in moderation is probably not harmful. I don't really know what an "appropriate" amount would be. Too much can cause intestinal permeability and endotoxin side effects. Likely one of the mechanism behind it's liver toxic effects. But when you say "social drinking" I'm thinking in my head you mean like Friday/Saturday night drinking with friends. Probably not doing too much damage as long as you're having only 1 or 2 drinks. If you're getting shitfaced that might be another story, lol. I would think daily drinking, even in small amounts, might eventually cause intestinal issues as well.
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@Mulloch94 Yea more like 5 or 6 beers. Im a young man. And on weekends yes but this is only occasionally. I think beer is probably the worst for your gut so I may switch to something else. But I plan on limiting my alcohol intake again as I had not drank for several months for a good while.
Yea not a fan of the way beer makes me feel for days after.
And to touch on that temperature thing with hot and cold flashes I believe I have some sort of infection like strep throat although it is weirdly getting better with aspirin so Im gonna go and get it checked out. I had been getting hot flashes for a while and never cold flashes where my body would actually heat up.
Maybe it's a sign that my body is normalising and fighting an infection that has been present for a while? I have had a white coat on my tongue for many months now and it seems to be clearing up somehow. Maybe down to the vitamin D? who knows -
@Jakeandpace You could always try some activated charcoal after a night of drinking. Will probably blunt most (not all likely) of the negative effects.
I couldn't really say about the temperature flashes. That's ambiguous and could mean literally a hundred different things. Maybe you're sick, maybe it's hormonal, perhaps a side effect of something you took, etc.
Vitamin D is good for the your immunity, are you running fever? An aspirin before bed can lower stress hormones like cortisol and estrogen which adversely effect body temperature. Those would be the areas I investigate first.