I always hear people say that drinking liquor can kill bacteria and fight cancer. Is this statement credible?

This statement is of course untrustworthy and completely wrong.

First, let’s look at a joke: In the experimental class, the teacher put a worm into an alcohol beaker, and the worm died after a while. The teacher asked the students what this experiment meant. One student said, "It means that people who drink alcohol do not have worms in their stomachs."

I think everyone understands this joke. The teacher's original intention was to use alcohol to kill bugs to prove that alcohol can also kill human tissues and organs, but a student misunderstood it. However, this misunderstanding also exists in reality. For example, drinking alcohol can kill bacteria and fight cancer.

In addition, a paper last year claimed that a variety of anti-cancer active substances were found in liquor, so it was said that liquor can fight cancer. This may seem more reasonable than the example above, but it is actually a lie.

First of all, substances with anti-cancer activity may not be good for the body. We know that cancer chemotherapy drugs often have serious side effects and are used by cancer patients as a last resort. It may not be beneficial for good people to take anti-cancer substances.

Secondly, containing anti-cancer substances and being able to fight cancer are two different things. This is just like saying that drinking water is good for health. Sewer sewage contains a lot of water, so drinking sewer sewage is good for health. Even though there are many so-called effective anti-cancer substances in liquor, liquor itself is a real carcinogen. Drinking liquor to fight cancer is still not worth the gain. For patients who have already suffered from cancer, drinking liquor is even worse.

So, it is a complete fantasy that liquor can prevent cancer, and drinking alcohol does more harm than good. It would be better if it did not cause cancer. The most basic common sense, we all know that alcohol is harmful to human health, so how can liquor with such a high alcohol content be good for people's health?

And in medicine, there is currently no basis for saying that liquor can prevent cancer! Moreover, long-term drinking of high-concentration alcohol can easily damage the liver and cause a series of liver diseases. It is not recommended to drink large amounts of liquor for a long time!

Of course, it is impossible to completely abstain from alcohol in society. It does not mean that everyone should completely quit drinking. It is a good thing to be able to quit. If you want to drink, try to control the amount of alcohol you drink, at least not exceeding the recommended intake. .