There's "poisoning" from lots of stuff that we wouldn't traditionally classify as "poison", like water [1] or oxygen [2].
I am not a chemist or a doctor, but I think the common adage is "it's the dose that makes the poison". Most stuff is bad for you if you get too much of it.
What? Maybe I was unclear. I'm not saying it's not a poison. It seems like I walked into some entrenched debate and I don't even know what it is. Is it obvious that alcohol has sex specific effects? I didn't know. Is this some kind of culture war thing?
I don't get it. Is poison generally sex-dependent?
Sometimes, yes. For example:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5677564/
They're just teedioustotal.
Some of their side effects can obviously be sex-dependent thus this study.
You say obvious. I say I've never heard of it. Interesting to me anyway.
I don't know. If it's not a poison, why do they call it "alcohol poisoning"? Go figure it out.
There's "poisoning" from lots of stuff that we wouldn't traditionally classify as "poison", like water [1] or oxygen [2].
I am not a chemist or a doctor, but I think the common adage is "it's the dose that makes the poison". Most stuff is bad for you if you get too much of it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
What? Maybe I was unclear. I'm not saying it's not a poison. It seems like I walked into some entrenched debate and I don't even know what it is. Is it obvious that alcohol has sex specific effects? I didn't know. Is this some kind of culture war thing?
As is water in large quantities
If you're comparing alcohol to water you may be an alcoholic.
The point is this study has nothing to do with alcohol being a "poison" , that's completely irrelevant to what was tested and discovered.
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