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I would like to argue that it's the one legal drug that's also celebrated in culture and society.

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I call it as a socially acceptable poison.

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What is a feminine liver versus a masculine liver?

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A guy develops liver disease with 200 ml of alcohol. Woman can develop the same liver disease with maybe 10 ml of alcohol.

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What? If you're pregnant with a baby, which is 8, 9 months inside the stomach, and you have a night of drinking, binge drinking, what happens?

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Alcohol use in mothers during the second and third trimester can actually promote alcohol use in the baby when they become older.

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The baby also gets drunk? Of course.

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I'm telling you, I have patients who drink 1.5 to 2 liters a day. They vomit blood, they come with cancers. It's a very messy affair with them. With somebody who has alcohol-related hepatitis, I do something known as stool transplantation. We put a small feeding tube to the small intestine, that is, after the stomach. We gave these patients the fresh stool sample of healthy people, and 88% of those people survived without a liver transplant.