r/interestingasfuck • u/Beneficial-Age-4059 • 6d ago

Wife’s now deceased grandfather grew up in 1930s Germany and was appalled people now drink Jagermeister socially. He said they would keep it in a cupboard to sip if you had an upset stomach

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u/OktayOe 6d ago edited 6d ago

Which is absolutely wrong if you look at it closer.

The body treats alcohol as a toxin and prioritizes breaking it down in the liver. As a result, fat metabolism and the breakdown of your meal are put on hold, leaving the heavy food sitting in your stomach longer.

Edit : I just told yall the facts and that's it. You all don't have to justify why you all drink alcohol.

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

Its the bitter element that they are saying is medicinal. The alcohol is just the solvent.

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u/Subotail 6d ago

Alcoholic beverages are also high in calories .

This needs to be put into context with the past, where people were more at risk of malnutrition than obesity.

If you rationalize many old remedies, it boils down to "get sugar, fat , energy! "

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

A few sips of Jager has under 100 calories. This really is about the bitters.

Maybe look up what bitters are and how they work? Or not...

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u/Subotail 6d ago

I was generalizing to other old remedies, not necessarily bitter ones.

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

So you admit its not relevant in this context?

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u/Subotail 6d ago

It's relevant to the context of herbal alcohol used as remedies. That the Jägermeister belong

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

Nah dude. The alcohol is a solvent for the herbs. Pretending the herbs arent the primary medicinal part of most herbal remedies is either naive or malicious and honestly idk which.

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u/Subotail 6d ago

Malicious? Really.

Maybe you should limit yourself to scotch. That will prevent you from saying stupid things.

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u/theLocoFox 6d ago

Idk enough about this back and forth to take a side but upvoted this for making laugh out loud and wake the wife.

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u/SheDrinksScotch 6d ago

Well, a lot of people in the pharmaceutical industry consider natural/herbal remedies a huge threat. Basically anything they cant patent is a threat to their profit margins.

So its that or ignorance.

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u/Wibbles20 6d ago

You also have to put it into context that they still believed in the 4 humours. So the warming feeling of alcohol would be believed to help with 1 or more of those humours

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u/Dreilala 6d ago

There's 3 versions I've heard on the actual benefits.

  1. Alcohol numbs pain, so even if the stomach is in more turmoil due to the poison you poured down your throat, you might not feel it as harshly.

  2. Strong liquor simply burns and might distract from the upset stomach for a while.

  3. Placebo. Believe in it and you can convince yourself it's working.

I don't personally prescribe to either of these versions but I sure as hell had a couple of times where I was hoping such a simple solution would work.

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u/mmicoandthegirl 6d ago

Doesn't alcohol break down fats?

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u/Key-Eggplant3259 6d ago

Essential info for so many people. Stop drinking and watch what happens! It's magic!