There was a post on Shanghaiist yesterday about how Asians who have an inherited enzyme deficiency suffer more than just public humiliation at having their faces turn tomato red upon imbibing. It also means that they’re at an increased risk of throat cancer.
An ALDH2-deficient person who has two beers a day has six to ten times the risk of developing esophageal cancer as a person not deficient in the enzyme.
Fuck…Me.
