Comments on: How Booze Can Make You Sick—and Not Just While You're Drunk

By: katcha Shiver

katcha Shiver — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:09:04 +0000

Having RA, this is an exciting thought until I realized, my first husband was such a heavy drinker he was hospitalized with walking pnuemonia often because of being too inebreated to know he was in pain. His RA was of a psoariatic type where he had scales all over and died from the painkillers in 2002.

By: Liris S.

Liris S. — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:15:03 +0000

Transcribing medical reports for many years, I have the wholly subjective impression of an inverse relationship between cancer and alcoholism. That is, while alcoholics may do tremendous damage to mind and body, it seems rare that they also incur a diagnosis of cancer as well as autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, RA and IBS [mentioned in your report], or even heart disease. As I say, this is a merely subjective impression, but if it holds statistically, TNF-a maybe the smoking gun.

By: israel ebhohimen

israel ebhohimen — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:57:13 +0000

the observed increase in TNF-a is worth studying. Perhaps, some constituents of alcohol may have induced the production. This particular reason should be identified and isolated then test alone. It may just be another discovery in boosting production of TNF-a

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:41:39 +0000

So much for “drinking alcohol helps kill the germs!” As for the inflammation, I wonder how this relates to the folk remedy of gin-soaked raisins for arthritis. My father swore by them. Something about the combination of juniper oil and the chemicals in the raisins was supposed to reduce the pain and swelling, especially in the fingers.