"The drink is elixir for keeping healthy." This proverb is very famous in Japan.
I think that drinking is best medicine to keep healthy. Because drinking have the chemical and spiritual effects.

[The chemical effects]
We can see the effect on when we headaches, on having a stiff backs, on having poor circulation etc. because alcohol improve blood circulation. And we can keep entire body healthy (Brain, internal organ) because of better blood circulation due to alcohol.
So alcohol is called the cure-all.
{Digression}
There is statistically non drinkers are 3 times more likely to get liver cancer than drinkers. You would think it was the opposite.
Many Japanese people lack an enzyme that is important for breaking done alcohol. Alcohol turn to poison for them.

The liver resolves poison. And the people who cannot to drink alcohol cannot resolve poison. So they will get liver cancer easily.

[The spiritual effects.]
We can relax by drinking alcohol and we feel happy. So our body make adrenaline and it kill microbes.
We can keep healthy naturally as in the story "You can keep healthy by doing enjoyable things." reported before by me.

Let's drink in modulation.

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