989 On: Health

Unlike most of our topics on random disorders and diseases, this is one that the average person is likely to have had at least a little experience with. Alcohol has been around for a long time, and was probably one of the first drugs that humanity discovered on the long road to civilization. We’ve touched on alcohol before, in the episode on fermented foods, and as as we mentioned back then, there are even some theories that indicate that one of the incentives to quit the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and start farming full time was to have a steady supply of alcohol.