I Have Doubled my Alcohol Consumption

[Revvy]

I asked this very question earlier in the thread.

I know...I just sat down and noticed your citations, and re-read his comments and had a WTF moment.

I don't get why people like to play "devils advocate" games on the internet....Which I think he's doing if he's not plain trolling. Either one seems like a waste of band with to me.

 

[homebrewdad]

I know...I just sat down and noticed your citations, and re-read his comments and had a WTF moment.

I don't get why people like to play "devils advocate" games on the internet....Which I think he's doing if he's not plain trolling. Either one seems like a waste of band with to me.

It's kind of like being that guy at a party who hangs on the fringe and jumps in with an interjection of "well, actually..." followed by a technical discourse on a tangent related to the subject of conversation, with an eye to showing everyone how much smarter he is than the person who brought the topic up. Instead, that guy usually comes across as a jerk, a nerd, or an unbearable terrible mix of the two.

The sad thing is, that party guy often goes home with a smug self assuredness on how he "really showed those guys", all the time being unaware (or unconcerned) how he really came off.

Hopefully, my analogy doesn't fully apply here. However, a re-reread of my initial post and the exchanges that have followed really does make me scratch my head.

 

[rhoop]

I normally only have a few beers a week as well. I'm young, but high cholesterol runs in my family when we hit 40, maybe I should have a beer a day along with my apple. Maybe take it to work and have it with my lunch. "No boss, this is just a health supplement for my heart, it will help me stay healthier so I can have less sick days..." :mug

 

[homebrewdad]

LOL @ supplement, rhoop. Beer will help you build good cholesterol, but it doesn't lower the bad variety.

 

[jonmohno]

Eat good and learn the right food/ drink pletny o' filtered or spring water and moderate calories also,exercise regularly,and moderate alchohol and drink homebrew more often than the filtered/pasterized variety. And thats a hell of a start for longevity.Stay off the meds. Quit eating sugar! Beer carbs are better anyway. I dont even drink soda/pop-rarely. Having Beer is actually better than having pop daily. And drink some good cabbage beet clerery apple/spinache and etc.... juice or get a damn vitamixer or good blender. Eat raw more often-get probiotics. Use a sauna.Man. there is so much to do to take care of yourself,people take better care of their cars,than simple (practically -FREE) steps of taking care of themselves.

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

^Um, what he said!^

 

[rhoop]

Beer will help you build good cholesterol, but it doesn't lower the bad variety.

That sucks, I had a whole five step plan made up on how to take one for the team and drink more beer to lower my cholesterol. Oh well. Guess I gotta stick with exercising and eating healthy and that boring stuff instead.

Actually, I enjoy exercising, and eating healthy. It's not boring at all. Maybe I will try and drink more beer anyway. I very rarely drink anything but homebrew, and if I do, it's usually bottle Conditioned anyway. I've never done any research on this, maybe someone else has, is it unhealthy to have high levels of the good cholesterol? I have a good intake of omegas and all that good stuff, but can your body have too much? Or does it regulate the good cholesterol better than the bad? Maybe the OP knows seeing as he's done a ton of research on it already. Save me some Google time...

 

[homebrewdad]

That sucks, I had a whole five step plan made up on how to take one for the team and drink more beer to lower my cholesterol. Oh well. Guess I gotta stick with exercising and eating healthy and that boring stuff instead.

Actually, I enjoy exercising, and eating healthy. It's not boring at all. Maybe I will try and drink more beer anyway. I very rarely drink anything but homebrew, and if I do, it's usually bottle Conditioned anyway. I've never done any research on this, maybe someone else has, is it unhealthy to have high levels of the good cholesterol? I have a good intake of omegas and all that good stuff, but can your body have too much? Or does it regulate the good cholesterol better than the bad? Maybe the OP knows seeing as he's done a ton of research on it already. Save me some Google time...

It is possible to have too much HDL, but this is rather rare, and is usually related to some other health issue (diabetes, liver issues).

The function of HDL is to remove LDL (bad cholesterol) from your arteries, where it returns it to your liver for processing. Excess LDL builds up and causes plaque in those arteries, which leads to heart attacks. HDL in and of itself isn't a problem (it doesn't cause arterial plaque), but it can indicate that you have another problem.

You want an HDL level of at least 40 (mine was 25 and change). HDL levels of 60+ are what you'd really like to have - these are associated with protection against heart disease. If you get an excessively high number, you may need to get a full lipid profile done to deterine what's going on.