Re: Alcohol Bypassing the Liver?
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Liver is connected to the blood stream, not the alimentary canal.
Want a diagram? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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So that guy just made up the part about "two small veins at the very end of the rectum (called the middle and inferior rectal veins) that drain _directly_ into the veins of the systemic circulatory system -- thus, anything absorbed via this route goes directly into the main circulation without being subjected to first-pass effect?"
Dang! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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