system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If wine or beer were your only beverage, could your liver metabolize the alcohol fast enough to sustain life?

Asking out of curiosity, and not my crippling alcoholism.
gpt
Yes. In fact hundreds of years ago before modern water delivery and detoxification systems most people drank alcohol as much as we might drink water.  The early colonists drank hard apple cider for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. However, their alcohol-percentage was lower than it is today.

You could survive on 2% apple cider but not 13% wine, for example.