“A couple beers in the evening is gonna F—K. YOU. UP.”

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"Then need to get on dialysis and eventually a kidney transplant. Yes, this happened to me, and I got my wife's kidney a few months ago, and I'm only 46."—psycorpse

"It builds slowly over decades, affecting your weight, heart, blood vessels, joints, metabolism, and overall health long before you realize what's happening. When you're young, you feel invincible. Later, you discover that your body has been keeping score all along. I'd make that change in a heartbeat."—jonathalana

"People who keep their circles too small end up very lonely and isolated. People that don’t learn how to identify the difference between a party friend and a real friend end up with lots of people who never show up when it counts."—Alive_Comfortable123

"Then you hit them with freezing water, they clamp down like a panic attack – blood pressure spikes, coronary arteries spasm, and boom, heart attack waiting to happen. At 20, your arteries are rubber bands. At 40, they're brittle tires – one extreme temperature swing, and they crack."—Stephenzhou1883

"I can never stop working now. I'll never be able to retire. And if I can't do my job at some point in the future, too bad."—LetsTryAnal_ogy

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