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Alcohol is metabolized into aldehydes which cross link your DNA, literally preserving you as you are alive. It is a biological miracle that your body has DNA re
by mjfl 5y ago
Alcohol is metabolized into aldehydes which cross link your DNA, literally preserving you as you are alive. It is a biological miracle that your body has DNA repair enzymes which can basically shrug this off. If we didn't have those enzymes drinking alcohol would lead to similar symptoms as radiation poisoning.
- darkerside 5y agoBiological miracle is a stretch. We wouldn't drink it if it were poison. It's just an interesting mechanism.
- OJFord 5y agoAlternatively, our entire bodies are 'biological miracles' and nothing specific is remarkable.
- makomk 5y agoMore like a biological necessity. There seems to be no shortage of fairly nasty chemicals produced by common biochemical processes that our bodies just had to evolve ways to seal with.
- sumedh 5y ago> It is a biological miracle that your body has DNA repair enzymes Maybe our ancestors who did not have this repair enzymes died while those people whose body mutated to make this enzyme survived?
- rambojazz 5y agoYou just described evolution.