I listened to his interview on NPR and it sounds terrifying. If he excerts himself too much, he gets drunk. If he eats carbs…drunk. Because his body made alcohol for so long, he had become an alcoholic even though he’d never had a drink. His alcohol dependence was so deep that he went through physical withdrawl, including the shakes, once he started treatment.
EDIT: Nobody believed him when he said he was not a drunk. Even his parents told his girlfriend (now wife) not to marry him. His wife believed him and is now a champion for the cause.
As an aside, tolerance only goes so far, and it changes with the drug. I wish I still had the graphic I once read in the cursed nyt 20 some years back, that broke it down with major drugs, how much of a tolerance can be built. Opiates for example, I think are high, you can get a major tolerance compared with an opiate naive person, other drugs it is less so.
Sounds like a yeast infection…
With all of the alcoholism, that could be the yeast of his problems.
That joke made me hoppy.
How does one acquire this power?
You must pray to bacchus. Then follow his instructions. Don’t do it.
