Acetaldehyde can reduce strength and stamina, cause excessive fatigue , cloud thinking and take away ambition

Acetaldehyde can reduce strength and stamina, cause excessive fatigue , cloud thinking and take away ambition. One mechanism for these problems is that it directly destroys neurotransmitters, which are chemicals responsible for completing all nerve impulses. Needless to say, this is not a desirable situation! Another mechanism is that it can bind to the walls of red blood cells, making them less flexible and therefore less able to get into and through the capillaries of the circulatory system. This causes oxygen deprivation in the tissues. Added difficulty is that the liver converts aceta hyde to the mycotoxin alcohol.

DNA (genetic material) may also be damage when excess acetaldehyde reacts with it, creating the following symptom pictures: pancreatitis (inflamed pancreas), Cardiomyopathy (enlarged, weakend heart), dilated cardiomyopathy (heart muscle discord with an enlarged chamber), brain atrophy dement (wasting away of brain with loss of reasoning), atrophied brain with large ventricles (interior fluid spaces), jaundice, spider angina (broken surface blood vessels), enlarged spleen, stomach ulcers, esophagea varicosity (enlarged blood vessels in the esophagus) ascites (fluid in abdomen), Cirrhosis, enlarged spleen tremor, bleeding tendency, easy bruising, ankle edema and reddening of the palms, just to name a few.

Another example of the damaging effects of the waste products of Y/F is the mycotoxin cyclosporin. This toxin suppresses the immune system so greatly that it's used to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs. The irony is that people rarely get it directly from the fungus, but are dosed with it by doctors doing transplants. Granted, the transplant may be necessary at the time it's done, but the important question is what series of events created the crisis. Cyclosporin has been shown to cause cancer and atherosclerosis (complete with high blood fats as noted above) in all humans who have been long-term survivors of transplants.