Alcohol Is Growing as a Prime-Time Killer (young people)
Alcohol is increasingly crippling the lives of younger adults, with its effects playing out in the morgue and the operating room.
US News & World Reports
By Katelyn Newman Staff WriterFeb. 25, 2020, at 6:03 a.m.
... Between 1999 and 2017...those 25 to 34 saw the largest increases (of alcohol liver disease) over time, according to a study published this year by researchers with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism...A separate study found that people between the ages of 25 and 34 saw the highest average annual increase – 10.5% – in cirrhosis-related deaths of any age group from 2009 to 2016, driven heavily by alcohol use, and the number of deaths from cirrhosis in this age group doubled. The findings stand "in contrast to any other time in recorded history, so going back through the 70s," says Dr. Elliot Tapper, lead author of the study and an assistant professor and liver specialist with the University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine.
The immediate reaction that everyone had across the country was, 'This is what we see,'" Tapper says. "If you round in an American hospital, then you will find not only is alcohol-related disease markedly overrepresented – the chances that you find someone with an alcohol use disorder are very high simply in the population that's hospitalized – but then two ... the list of patients on which a liver specialist rounds is almost uniformly, at this point, alcohol-related disease and disproportionately young people."
That dynamic is also playing out in the operating room. In a study published last year, Dr. Brian Lee – a transplant hepatology fellow at the University of California–San Francisco – and colleagues found an increase in the proportion of liver transplants associated with alcohol-related liver disease, or ALD, between 2002 and 2016. In an email to U.S. News, Lee also says "the average age of transplant recipients for ALD has significantly declined over time, which is the opposite of the trend among other liver diseases."
"It's jarring to see somebody in their 20s, many times their first time seeing a doctor, with end-stage liver disease caused by alcohol," he says. "This is a process of liver damage that we typically assume should take decades to happen."
More here
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-02-25/alcohol-is-killing-younger-adults-at-an-increasing-rate
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if you have drank to excess in the past. (Also, taking a coffee enema is supposed to be good for your liver)
Sylimarin is the herb Milk Thistle
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Source--https://www.statista.com/statistics/979728/iraq-afghanistan-veterans-alcohol-use-number-of-drinks/
snip--"16 or more 2%
12 to 15 drinks 1%
9 to 11 drinks 2%
7 to 8 drinks 4%
5 to 6 drinks 9%
3 to 4 drinks 26%
2 drinks 32%
1 drink 24%
snip--"This graph shows the percentage of U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who had consumed a select number of drinks per day during one day of alcohol consumption as of 2018. According to the data, 32 percent of respondents stated they typically consumed 2 drinks during one day of alcohol consumption."
I caught a radio talk show about increasing alcohol usage in younger vets.
There are dozens of articles if you look.
One of the vets in the rooms said "it makes the screaming stop". 
When he attempted to give up the booze, it fucked with his brain hard. He was 35 years old. Definite wake up call. 
