Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
shootingstar, sounds like you have the same metabolic problem that I have. Your body doesn't break down the alcohol properly .This is genetic and extremely common in Asian people, I am 100% Italian (of all things) but i have it too!
Drinking alcohol never made me feel good, it just made me feel bad. So at a certain point I just quit drinking. There was no point to it, and I certainly wasn't going to drink to make OTHERS feel good.
My whole family (that's 7 other people) seems to be similar to me, with only slight variations where another person or 2 might be able to drink 1-2 whole glasses of wine, before feeling the effects.

I've been told supposedly there's some sort of enzyme that doesn't break down the alcolhol as fast in certain people.

I actually drink abit "more" compared to 20 yrs. ago..which was about..once annually. But "more" is such a relative term.