Does drinking shorten your lifespan?
Does drinking shorten your lifespan?
Thomas Wright
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Austin Thompson
yeah
Alexander Peterson
Because of risk or telomeres?
Camden Lee
both and then some
fatty liver disease
stomach lining damage
and brain effects still being studied
Nolan Ortiz
Jesus, so I should just give it up, eh?
Alexander Howard
Yeah, it is recommended
t. alcoholic working on cutting it down
Nathaniel Jackson
What about marijuana? Or not enough research done, I bet...
Nolan Moore
Yeah, mostly the second part
From what I've gathered, if you're someone at risk of schizo genetically, smoking often can induce it earlier/make it more likely to develop
my guess with marijuana is that there are a lot of ugly truths about it people don't want to study, especially when 99% of people who end up doing a research topic related to it believe it can cure all ills and have a bias starting out
Drinking a beer every now and then or smoking weed once a week or something probably won't do much in the way of harm, but if you're someone with an addictive personality things like this are difficult to do, and sometimes maturity is just going cold turkey
i'm still working on it
William Mitchell
Eh...I think my best bet is going cold turkey then. Hard shit to swallow, though. I have an addictive personality.
But one day, I might wake up and discover they found that nothing is wrong with smoking lots of dope. There's some anecdotal evidence that it's harmless, so long as you keep a healthy lifestyle. I guess that's the same for everything, though.
Zachary Kelly
yeah, the approach I take at this point is that even if there was no bodily harm from any of these things (which is highly unlikely to be the case)
reflect on any time you didn't go out, meet with friends, apply to a job, do homework, etc. because you were drinking or smoking
for me I realized that if I had a supply of infinite beer and free housing, I would probably spend the rest of my life complacent as a drunkard until the day I died, watching YouTube videos or something
you have to personally ask if that's really what you want to do/be
these things become crutches for where you are lacking in some area in your life and make you complacent without it
I find that I usually drink most when bored, and I know there are far better things I can do with the time, but try telling that to me while drunk
it's a personal question if we pretend there is no bodily harm
hope your efforts go well