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What heavy alcohol intake can do to your body?
Are you addicted to alcohol? It’s time to break your pattern and know how it can harm your health.
Drinking alcohol can make you feel tipsy and it starts the moment you take your first sip. An occasional glass of wine or beer isn’t a problem but if it becomes a regular habit, it can lead to several hazards. Frequent consumption of alcohol can be harmful to the body as cumulative effects add up.
Not many people are aware of the fact that the liver helps break down and make your body free of alcohol after you’ve gulped it in. If you drink more than your body can handle, it does increase the risk of chronic liver inflammation and liver disease. Not just that, it also directly affects the central nervous system.
Moreover, drinking too much can directly tamper with your ability to judge, create long-term memories and make decisions. The person doesn’t realise their dependency on alcohol and it slowly lessens the capacity to make rational choices and also damage the frontal lobe, which is mainly responsible for emotional control, short-term memory, and judgement.
Dr Kaushal Madan, Director - Gaestronology & Hepatology at Max Hospital, Gurgaon enlists some serious medical conditions it can lead to:
If you know you’re leaning towards alcohol and it is harming your health, it’s better to stay away and take long breaks between consuming drinks. Later on, professional help may be needed to break the addiction. Many people seek medical detoxification to get rid of the physical addition and get back to their normal lives.
