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Welcome to the Medical Medium Podcast.
I'm Anthony Williams.
Throughout the centuries, all the way up till today, we think about when someone's had too
much to drink and they slur their speech, they have an inability to walk in a straight line,
an inability to think or speak clearly. We call it and always have being drunk.
And then if it's really severe or someone's incapacitated, we call it alcohol poisoning.
But do we really know what happens to our bloodstream inside our body when we're saturated
with a high volume of alcohol. We don't, and we never did.
Even up to now, we assumed, because medical research and science assumed, that the more
alcohol in the bloodstream leads directly to these actions and symptoms. Slurred speech,
inability to think clear or talk, and eventually you're incapacitated. That alcohol itself affects
the brain to cause these experiences. Here's the truth. No one knows exactly what happens inside
the brain with alcohol. Intoxication isn't fully understood. It's only one part, one aspect of what
happens to the brain when someone drinks. As someone's starting to drink alcohol, first thing
that occurs is they start getting tipsy. That's a term people use. I'm tipsy. I'm starting to get
tipsy. Are you drunk? No, I'm just tipsy. Tipsy is the first thing people, most people say.
If you ask somebody, like, why are you drinking? How are you feeling? They're saying, I need to
loosen up. I need to loosen up and speak my mind. Alcohol tends to just loosen me up. I'm all tight.
I'm all uptight and I need to drink at the end of the day. Get loosened up so I can speak my mind.
say it like it is some people won't say they're loosening up they'll just say it relaxes them
why are you drinking well relaxes me i just need that i had a hard day i need to relax
it relaxes me eases me into the rest of the night and then there's those people that just
want to check out they just want to numb out they won't say that if you ask them they're not gonna
like, well, I just need to numb out. I need to check out, man. I need to forget. They don't say
that, but that's what they're doing. They're drinking because they're just like, well, I'm
done. I need to check out for now. I need to numb out from now. I need to just put things behind me.
I need to forget the day. I need to forget what's going on. So how does alcohol do this?
How is it possible that alcohol accomplishes this? How do we loosen up? How do we numb out?
How do we check out?
How do we get tipsy?
How does any of it happen?
We just assume it's blood toxicity, I guess.
It's alcohol.
It's toxic.
It enters our bloodstream.
And it's giving us these sensations.
But what's really happening?
How does it really work?
Our brain survives on sugar.
Without it, our brain does not survive.
A lack of glucose sugar to your brain can slowly starve it over time to the point where it ends your life if it can't get the sugar it needs.
People think the lack of oxygen to the brain causes brain failure.
Correct, it does, but it's not the only thing.
The lack of glucose to the brain can cause brain failure as well.
Alcohol is the all-time trick on your brain.
It's the ultimate trick on the brain.
Why is it the all-time trick on the brain?
Because your brain believes alcohol is sugar.
Sugar it can use.
Sugar that can feed it.
Our brain believes that alcohol is glucose, but it's not glucose.
It's not sugar.
Alcohol is methyl sugar.
It's a hybrid of what was sugar.
More of a vaporized sugar versus a usable sugar.
Alcohol's essence is sugar, yet it's not.
It's not sugar.
This becomes a charade that's played on your brain.
Because your brain believes it's sugar when it's not sugar.
Your brain critically needs glucose for survival.
But what happens is it identifies alcohol as critically needed glucose.
But several things go wrong when this happens.
The more alcohol you dump into your bloodstream,
the harder it is for your brain to use any real glucose that's in your bloodstream for your brain.
Your brain quickly starts switching over.
It starts grabbing onto the alcohol.
It starts to absorb the alcohol inside the brain tissue
instead of absorbing glucose, real glucose,
that's in your bloodstream from something you ate a while back.
At any given point, all of us have a certain storage amount of glucose inside our brain.
but as the alcohol is getting into the bloodstream our brain isn't utilizing the old storage bin of
glucose that we have inside our brain anymore it's starting to instead just use the alcohol
so now there's an override going on and then there's the liver yeah you heard it the liver
when we drink we think liver that's a connection we make right if you're a drinker for like years
and years throughout your whole life. It's like liver. Well, got to look out for cirrhosis. Got
to look out for liver damage. One of your liver's major jobs is to contain glucose, keep a storage
of it. And then its job is to release glucose congruently into your bloodstream for when your
brain really needs it. There are moments in our life when we don't have sugar at our fingertips
or glucose at our fingertips.
We may not be eating for a while.
Our bodies are created in the sense
that if we don't get food at some given time,
it's going to be okay.
We're going to survive.
And a part of this is the liver.
It's a built-in system.
It's geared to release glucose when we're in a deficit.
We run dry.
We don't have enough glucose.
We're not eating what we need.
Maybe we're without food for some reason.
and then the liver kicks in, starts to release glucose reserves, it enters the bloodstream and
gets to the brain. This is how somebody can survive water fasting, especially if they're
water fasting past a day or two days or three days. As they're water fasting, they're out of
glucose. They're not eating. There's no glucose in a bloodstream from food that they're actually
eating. Then how are they still alive? Now, when somebody's water fasting, they may not be in good
shape, that all depends on how much is happening with their liver. How healthy is their liver?
Does their liver have enough glucose storage bin? Because as you're water fasting, that glucose is
being released from your liver and keeping you going, keeping you alive while you're just on
water. The glucose that's leaving your liver as you're water fasting is entering your bloodstream
and traveling to your brain so your brain doesn't completely starve to death.
There are some people that start water fasting and they completely come unglued and fall apart
by the second day because they have a weak liver or a sick liver and it doesn't have a big glucose
reserve. And there's some people that can go seven days or 10 days or more and they can hang
in there because their liver is releasing enough glucose just to keep their brain alive.
You've heard of somebody say, I can't handle alcohol, one drink, and I'm feeling more than
tipsy and I feel sick the next morning, kind of a little bit of a hangover. And then you hear
somebody else, they drink like a pint of whiskey and more, and they're doing like double shots
and everything else. And they're totally drunk, but they handled their alcohol. It took a while
for them to get totally drunk. The next morning, yeah, they have a hangover, but they do it all
over again. It's the state of their liver. It's the condition of their liver. It's the state of
their liver. Now, what's important to know is if a person who had a difficult time water fasting
and started to fall apart after one or two days or three days, if at one time when they weren't
water fasting, they decided to drink, they would be one of those people that can't hold their
liquor or they get affected by the liquor really fast. One beer can not only make them feel sick,
but they can get tipsy really quick. And then that other person that can water fast for a longer
time, five days, seven days, 12 days, 14 days or more, and they can survive their water fast,
not fall apart and get through it. If at some point when they weren't water fasting and they
were drinking and they were consuming alcohol, they would be able to hang on. They would be able
to get through it. They could drink more, not get tipsy that quick, not get drunk that quick.
They can say, I can hold my liquor pretty good. Regardless of whatever somebody's alcohol
tolerance is. No matter what, everybody gets drunk at a certain point. Whatever your tolerance is,
the minute you get enough alcohol in you, it's in your bloodstream, things start to happen.
As you're drinking alcohol, it starts to poison and numb the liver. And your liver is your defense
mechanism to stop alcohol from getting to your brain. The minute you start getting tipsy, or
whatever you call it, whatever you personally call the beginning stages of feeling alcohol's
effects, no matter how mild, your liver is already at its saturation level. Your liver can't protect
your brain anymore. When it comes down to using the term moderation, I'm drinking in moderation,
that's how I do it. There is no moderation with alcohol. What this means is the minute you start
getting tipsy or whatever you call it, your liver is already shutting down. It's reached its saturation
point. So it's not about moderation anymore. It's just about I drank enough and then my liver is
shutting off. Your liver's running on pilot light, just staying alive. And as the alcohol's entering
into your bloodstream, your liver's job is to soak up every single drop of alcohol. So right now,
as we're drinking in that moment, your liver is actually just focused on the alcohol poisoning.
That's it. Meaning because it's a toxic substance. Now you may not be classified as somebody with
alcohol poisoning in that moment because you're just starting to drink and you're tipsy, but your
liver is actually becoming poisoned with the alcohol. And as it's becoming poisoned with
alcohol, it's not releasing glucose anymore. Storage bins of glucose that it has all stored up
for years is not being released. No more glucose is leaving the liver and getting to the brain.
Eventually, the liver becomes paralyzed. That's it. Its only important function now is just to
soak up alcohol. That's its main function at that point. So when you're out at a bar or restaurant
or home or at a party or gathering or just drinking alone.
What becomes of your liver in that moment is just one thing and one thing practically only.
And that's just the focus of alcohol and the alcohol only.
Now, yes, blood is going through your liver.
Blood is entering your liver.
It's going up the paddock portal vein.
It's going through your liver and out your liver.
But your liver is not focused on nutrients.
It's not focused on monitoring hormones.
It's not focused on storing new glucose.
It's not focused on all the nutrients that are going to be leaving, the enzymes, everything.
It's just focused on one thing, alcohol consumption.
It's trying to get all the alcohol it can possibly get and store it to protect you and
stop the alcohol from getting to your brain.
But our livers can't sponge up all the alcohol.
It's impossible.
That's why you start to feel the effects of the alcohol.
The liver is fully saturated.
It can't do its job anymore.
So now the more alcohol you dump into your body, the more tipsy you get.
Eventually, you get drunk and your liver is at maximum capacity.
Eventually, all the alcohol starts to push any glucose that's in the bloodstream away.
It overrides it.
It dominates.
and then your brain believes the alcohol is sugar, but it isn't. It's a ghost of what sugar was.
The brain becomes a victim to the ghost of sugar. As a person drinks more alcohol,
they get more drunk, inebriated, and they exhibit drunken behavior, slurred speech,
inability to function normally. That means the brain is already starting to starve to death.
The taxi's coming, man. Stop.
Are we going to Mikey's tonight?
I told you not to drink so much.
I told you not to drink so much.
Now there's a key understanding.
something that is so critical to know. That symptoms we associate with drunkenness and
alcohol poisoning aren't only from alcohol itself. So symptoms we are seeing when someone's drunk
is not just from the alcohol itself. Most are symptoms instead of the brain starting to die.
The more alcohol you consume in a day or an evening, the less glucose gets to the brain.
Let's just say someone started out with 100% glucose getting to the brain cells, keeping it alive.
And then drinking alcohol brings that glucose percentage down to 5% to 10% instead of 100%, depending on how inebriated someone is.
it's like taking a fish out of water and watching it gasp for air on the beach or watching it gasp
for air on the boat that you just got that fish onto then putting that fish back in the water
and watching it come back to life again and then taking the fish back out of the water
and putting it back on the boat or on the beach and watching it suffer and struggle
and then repeating it, putting it back into the water again and reviving it.
The fish stays alive, although it's in survival mode, but it stays alive.
The fish becomes your brain.
Your brain becomes the fish.
It stays alive.
It's in survival mode.
It's running on 5%, 10% glucose just to keep it alive.
And you're bringing alcohol back into the bloodstream and you're starving the brain.
It's like the fish.
Your brain is the fish fighting for its life.
There is just enough glucose getting to your brain to keep the person alive, to keep you
alive.
Yet, it's so little that the person loses the ability to function.
You become a walking, talking example of a dying brain.
as alcohol dominates over glucose getting to the brain
because not only is the alcohol dominating by pushing sugar away from the brain,
but the brain is thinking alcohol is the most viable source,
the most accessible source of glucose.
So the brain looks for the alcohol instead of other sugars.
This doesn't mean that your brain wants alcohol.
This doesn't mean that your brain needs alcohol.
This means your brain thinks its only choice is alcohol.
That's the difference.
The brain is being tricked.
The effect of alcohol isn't solely from just the sugar tricking the brain,
the trick sugar effect,
where the brain becomes star of the valuable glucose.
That's one part of it.
Alcohol is indeed a poison.
And as a poison, it does have an effect that can be intoxicating and debilitating.
But yet, the slurred speech when someone is on their third or fourth drink is because
the brain is starting to starve from glucose and therefore losing the ability to function.
When someone becomes drastically drunk, they drink too much and they collapse.
They conk out and fall asleep.
that drunken sleep is a game of Russian roulette.
Because if the brain doesn't get any more glucose due to the intensity of the intoxication,
the brain can actually starve and that person can die in their sleep.
When someone is so intoxicated by alcohol to the point where they need to vomit,
where they have alcohol poisoning, their body wants to get it out.
so the vomiting stage occurs. What could go wrong with this is that because the brain is lacking
glucose, it's dying from the lack of glucose because of the alcohol, then the vagus nerves
can become partially paralyzed. And when that's occurring, it doesn't allow the vomiting process
to work properly. This could make it so when someone's vomiting in their sleep, they end up
choking to death because their vagus nerves are not functioning properly. The vomit's getting
stuck. The natural process of vomiting and having it projectile doesn't occur. And the vomit stays
in the stomach, stays in the esophagus, gets caught in the throat, ends up going into the lungs,
and the person chokes to death and dies. This is where gambling happens, a type of gambling.
This is when someone dies, someone doesn't.
Depending on how drunk they are.
Depending on the position they are when they're passed out.
Depending on their vagus nerves and the condition they're in.
Depending on how drunk somebody is.
You'll see out there, and maybe you witnessed this,
someone who didn't eat all day long.
They have no food in their system.
And they're all excited.
They get to a bar.
They get to a party.
They start drinking.
and they start buzzing faster.
They start getting tipsy.
They start getting drunk quicker.
We normally think they're buzzing.
We normally think they're actually getting drunk.
They're slurring their speech.
They're getting loaded really quick.
We think it's because their brain's becoming intoxicated.
We think it's because they're becoming drunk,
but really it's the glucose deficiency.
They didn't eat that day
or the last thing they ate was in the morning
or what they chose to eat wasn't providing enough glucose in their system all on its own.
So here they are.
They're ready to drink.
They're ready to party.
They're running low on glucose anyway.
And because they didn't eat, they don't have any fresh available glucose
and their liver is working overtime trying to mop up all that fresh alcohol.
So they get drunk quicker.
And then you have somebody who ate.
They had a good lunch. They had a good breakfast, maybe some snacks, maybe a treat, anything.
And then they start drinking and they're hanging in there.
They're not getting as drunk as fast. They're not getting a buzz as quick.
They have a lot of fresh glucose hanging around for their brain.
If drunkenness was only about intoxication of alcohol, the symptoms would be limited.
someone would be just nauseous vomiting feel sick in the head feel dizzy yet while greatly sick
they still would be coherent but the reason why they may not be coherent is because it's a
combination of both the intoxication of the alcohol and the starvation of the brain happening
at the very same time that leads to the loss of motor skill function it's a combination it can
only happen with that. Stored speech, other difficulty speaking, not understanding what
someone is saying, and at the same time saying things you don't know you're saying. As the brain
is getting very little glucose on the edge of barely staying alive, certain parts of the brain
start to shut down. And then it's hangover time. Anyone who's ever had a hangover knows what a
hangover is. Anyone who's ever gotten drunk, consumed enough alcohol, knows what a hangover is.
But do they really know what a hangover is? What's a hangover? A hangover is part starvation of
glucose to the brain and part intoxication of alcohol. Have you ever heard the best cure for
a hangover? Do you know what it is? What's the first thing that comes to your mind? I know what
it is. It's drinking again. This is a myth. Drinking to cure a hangover the next day does
not work. Even though it's advice given to a lot of people who get drunk and party, it's like,
hey man, just drink again. Crack open another beer first thing in the morning. Make a Bloody
Mary. That'll fix it. But it doesn't. Instead of recovering your brain, instead of recharging your
brain, getting you back into action, you're starving your brain all over again. The reason
people gorge the next day after they drink or gorge early in the morning after they do a night
of drinking is because their brain is asking for glucose. It's desperate for real glucose,
not the ghost of sugar, but real sugar. And when someone has a really bad hangover,
they're still queasy they're still sick they don't feel good that's from the toxic nature of
the alcohol that's not from the starvation aspect of no glucose to the brain but either way the
brain overrides and says i need fuel i need food i need sugar i need glucose so you're gonna have
to eat something soon many people don't drink to the point of nausea and vomiting but they are
still looking to scarf down food to sober up. The same night they drank, they're looking for a diner
or a drive-thru at two or five o'clock in the morning, ordering a whole stack of pancakes,
maple syrup, toast, eggs, bacon, waffles, hash browns, burgers, fries, tacos, or burritos,
or they're turning to ample food the next day if they don't do it early that morning.
The common phrase is, I'm sopping up the alcohol.
I need to sop it up.
It even happens when someone is actively drinking out at a party or a bar
when a companion says, you've got to eat something to sop up that alcohol.
It's the brain coming out of that starvation state and starting to function again.
Love this place, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Bring on the drinks now!
Yeah!
The adrenaline surge.
The adrenaline surge that everyone gets,
even if they don't act like that.
Even if they're just calm.
Their adrenaline is starting to soar.
It's starting to spill.
It's starting to flood.
There's an unexpected adrenaline high
that comes with drinking
that people don't even know about.
It's there for a reason.
We get an adrenaline surge.
Adrenaline floods the bloodstream.
Epinephrine high when we start drinking.
Even when we just hold the drink and it hasn't entered the mouth yet.
Hasn't even entered the bloodstream yet.
The adrenaline starts to soar.
And this adrenaline can affect each person differently.
It can determine if someone's going to be an angry drunk.
I don't know if you've ever seen that out there or heard of that, but an angry drunk.
Or if someone is going to be sitting down on the ground somewhere crying or outright bawling when they're drunk.
When we say alcohol is talking for someone, the alcohol's talking.
That's the drink's talking.
What we're really witnessing is adrenaline being used by the brain that's starving.
the brain is starving to death and it's needing adrenaline and it's using the adrenaline for
survival to keep it alive and that's what's talking our adrenaline becomes a backup fuel
for when the brain is starving of glucose and adrenaline is addictive and the more drunk you get
the more adrenaline is released so it's even more addictive it makes you want to drink each week
each day, it gets to a point for someone where they actually consume alcohol on a daily basis
because it's so addictive, because the adrenaline release is the addictive part. Remember, what goes
up must come down. So at the end of a night when someone got drunk and then the next morning they
start coming down, they're at a low. So many people experience depression after they drink.
part of that low is the adrenaline surge that they had their adrenaline is now leaving their
system it flooded all through their body and as it's leaving their system they feel a depression
or a sadness come on adrenaline mixed with someone's experiences their emotional struggles
throughout their life their emotional experiences that they've had throughout their life combined
with the adrenaline released as they're drinking can determine what's going to happen, whether
they're an angry drunk, a sad drunk, a happy drunk, a drunk that's just cheering on during a sports
event or simply celebrating a happy hour moment, a drunk that has a lot of courage out of nowhere,
a drunk that has more energy, less energy, more strength, less strength. All this determines
upon the person's experiences through life,
along with how they're reacting to the adrenaline surges,
the adrenaline highs and the adrenaline lows,
and the addiction part of the adrenaline,
along with their brain starving almost to death.
They call it happy hour for a reason.
The sensation that occurs when you're knocking back that first drink
is the adrenaline surge of survival
in the face of brain starvation.
If we understood this,
what we'd be shouting instead of cheers
is my brain is about to start dying.
It's about to starve to death.
My adrenal glands are going into chaos
and they're going to release a tremendous amount of epinephrine
to keep my brain alive.
That's what I should be shouting
as I'm knocking back that first drink.
At the same time,
I'm going to feel the brain effects
of intoxication from alcohol's poison.
All in one,
it's going to give me a great night.
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