Ototoxic agents impair mitochondrial function, disrupt ATP synthesis, and activate caspase-mediated apoptosis via the intrinsic (mitochondrial) pathway, leading to irreversible auditory cell loss
Alcohol affects the body in many different ways and can have both short-term and long-term health effects
Clearly, the method of fermentation which kokuto shochu utilizes, combined with the pot still distillation, creates a profile that would give the incautious serious pause, and I now suspect there was probably something of a shochu element in the Seven Seas Japanese rum by which I was so nonplussed in 2018
Gastric dysmotility and low serum vitamin D levels in patients with gastroparesis
Iron deficiency, cognitive functions, and neurobehavioral disorders in children