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Methanol: The Alcohol You Should Never Drink, Not Even A Sip.

Methanol is the alcohol that kills hundreds of Iranian during COVID-19 pandemic.

Multiple headlines showing Iranian died after drinking methanol. Source: DailyMail, Independent, FoxNews.

The headlines published on famous news sites in late March showed hundreds of Iranian died after drinking methanol.

So, let’s talk about a little about the production of ethanol and methanol, the danger of methanol and the danger of assuming “what works outside the body must be working inside the body”.

All alcohol is toxic for the body when exceeds a specific threshold. What makes methanol so dangerous is that it has a very low threshold for toxicity than ethanol.

The production of alcohol: Ethanol vs Methanol