The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Alcohol has been used for medicinal purposes because indeed it does kill bacteria, and, as you'll soon find out, the fact that it kills bacteria, because that is absolutely true, it also kills the good bacteria in your gut, and the destruction of that good bacteria in your gut can lead to things like leaky gut syndrome and has all sorts of issues, and there are ways to deal with those issues and we'll talk about those.
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it does seem that alcohol can kill some of the good bacteria in the gut and promote the proliferation of some of the bad bacteria and allow them to escape the gut due to quote unquote leaky gut certain gut derived compounds may also influence alcohol intake and may be another way in which the gut could give rise to alcohol addiction