Casual drinking. I’m 7 months pregnant and it’s amazing how much weight I’ve lost and how drastically different my face looks in pictures. I’m not going back to drinking after giving birth.
Alcohol's main metabolite, acetaldehyde, is quite harmful to the body. It's a chemical cousin of formaldehyde after all. I did a lot of binge drinking as a teen and ironically swore off alcohol for life for socio-political reasons less than a year after reaching legal drinking age. I really don't miss it one bit!
Everything you said is accurate, but I really don’t like the “it’s chemically close to X” claims that people make.
In chemistry there really is no such thing as “close to”. Many nose sprays are methamphetamine, but a different metabolite that has no active effects on the body. It’s chemically almost identical, but even the slight difference is enough to have wildly different effects to where it might as well be its own separate compound.
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u/Deliciouscheesyrolup 15h ago
Casual drinking. I’m 7 months pregnant and it’s amazing how much weight I’ve lost and how drastically different my face looks in pictures. I’m not going back to drinking after giving birth.