First . If you look online , you will sometimes be able to find sadly that some people believe that certain kinds of alcohol are not detrimental to fetuses . They'll say , well , champagne is safe for a pregnant mother to drink , but beer is not , that is absolutely categorically false .
There's an additional category that I wanna highlight , of course , and this is vitally important to state even though it's obvious , which is that people who are pregnant should absolutely not consume alcohol . Fetal alcohol syndrome is well known and established . It's terrible fetuses , experience diminished brain development , that's often permanent , diminished limb development , diminished organ development in the periphery , meaning you know , the heart , the lungs , the liver , et cetera , ingesting alcohol while pregnant is simply a bad idea .
Alcohol is a toxin . And the reason fetal alcohol syndrome exists is because the ability of that toxin to disrupt cellular processes . Remember , tumor growth and the way that alcohol can accelerate tumor growth by proliferation of cells , the wrong cells , the ones you don't want to proliferate .
Alcohol is alcohol . There is no evidence whatsoever that consuming certain types of alcohol is safer for fetuses than others . Alcohol is a toxin .
And before I realized I was ingesting alcohol , obviously , one can't undo what's been done . But I want to also emphasize that fetal alcohol syndrome while yes , there's a full blown syndrome that manifests as changes in the cranial facial development that are very obvious and you can look these up . You've probably seen these before , the pictures before .
