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[Rick and Morty] How much of Rick's potential is limited by the amount of alcohol he consumes?

Rick drinks an obscene amount of hard liquor.  How does he still function at such an obscenely high mental capacity?  Would he be smarter if he took better care of himself and stopped drinking as much?
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I like to think of it more similarly to Bender or Archer. These characters *run on alcohol.* In Bender's case it literally fuels him, while in Archer's case it calms him and allows him to be a cool, suave "secret" agent in the face of intense, panic-inducing danger. Maybe for Rick it helps him to ignore the monstrosities he's witnessed in the Galaxy. Maybe it helps him forget his nihilistic beliefs. Maybe he drinks away crippling pain, and the ability to ignore this suffering is the only thing that permits him to wake up in the morning and go on yet another pointless adventure in a life he hardly believes is worth living.