At 12:31 +0100 07/01/04, Heikki Levanto wrote:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:42:01AM +0100, thorkild nielsen wrote:
Nej. Alkohol reagerer ikke kemisk med stoffer i
vores organisme, mig bekendt, bortset fra under
nedbrydningsprocessen i leveren til
acetyl-coenzym-A via acetaldehyd. Og det er noget
helt andet.
I am not a biochemist, but I have a strong suspicion that
alcohol does have some effects in my body, other than
disappearing in the liver. I don't say it reacts with every
possible substance inside me, but somehow, somewhere, it
does make a difference. That's why people drink alcohol.
Sure alcohol does interact with some molecules in the nervous system
and with cell-membranes on the whole, but it dores not enter in
chemical reactions with them. And the difference is quite big. The
result of a chemical reaction is a new chemical compound, the
interaction is only temporary.
I do not (necessarily) believe it has anything to do with
gender-specific hormones, although some men seem to acquire
feminine chracateristics when consuming lots alcohol (talking a
lot, getting overly sentimental, loosing the ability to drive
a car or to think logically...)
-H
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