Logically your point makes sense, arbd, but a brain--especially human brain--is far more sophisticated than herd of buffalos (no pun to my name

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It is true that alcohol will supress majority of brain functions. But the brain has the ability to bypass the malfunctioning axon and remap the brain path. This has been proven over and over for many years. For example, a blind person developing an extra sense of higher hearing to move through daily tasks of life.
The "slow" axon of brain cell will slowly fade or die away while a new neuron will emerge and relink the missing axon. But the rate of regeneration of new neurons will slowly fade away as we age. The only way to replce these missing axons by new neurons is to keep stimulating the brain with new information and training them to retain and recall. That why learning never stops and should never stop. But this is another topic.
Alcohol is bad for your body only if you abuse it--and many of us do abuse it. And by no means I'm condoning alcohol consumption. A moderate consumption is what I'm referring. But alcohol does not lead to attacking just weak brain cells. Brain cells die whether you do or not do. It's a normal biological function. And there's no order of which cells die out first.
I think instead of making an effort of keeping what is remaining of brain cells, make an effort to regenerate as much as we can.
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