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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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What the Hell Is Like Alcohol?

In the old days, or back in the 19 seventies, before this pandemic of chronic disease started, those both, both those diseases were the diseases of alcohol. But kids don't drink alcohol, so i said, all right, is there something they're exposed to that's like alcohol? So i opened up my lenenger in a bio chemistry text book from 19 74. The answer is fractos. Fractos and alcohol are metabolized virtually identically. And it makes sense that that would be the case, because, after all, where do you get alcohol from? Fermentation of fractos is called wine. We do it in thap in sonoma every day. I

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