re: #99 SanFranciscoZionist

Basically. Also, high rates of alcoholism.

Iceland particularly has trouble with alcohol. The people of Iceland have no thousands-of-years history of wine drinking. They’ve not evolved a tolerance for alcohol. The Greeks and the French are better able to cope with the availability of inexpensive, high alcohol content drinks than are Icelanders or Russians.

People differ, the one from the next, in their ability to cope with alcohol. To some extent this varies from group to group as well. Whether it’s an individual thing or whether it’s connected to ancestry, those who find themselves particularly vulnerable to the stuff need to be extra cautious. Yes, Lindsay, you too.

Those who find that they can drink like a sailor need to be cautious too. Enough heavy alcohol use for long enough will warp the mind and wreck the liver every time.