Of course, most of us are aware of the immense harm alcohol does to the liver, but the article goes on to explain that alcohol can be just as deadly to our muscle tissue (which includes the heart), our sexual ability and sexual organs (including testicular atrophy), our brains, and even down to our individual cells. In fact, alcohol damages the body in just about every conceivable way. (click here for a larger version of the above picture).
- Your Brain: Excessive consumption of alcohol leads directly to brain lesions and cognitive problems. Years of heavy drinking will cause alterations to the neurons, resulting in reductions in the size of brain cells leading to a shrinking brain mass. This lower brain mass, in turn, is largely responsible for poor motor skills, quality of sleep, learning and memory.
- Your Liver: Long-term alcohol abuse will damage and/or destroy liver cells, thereby preventing your liver from doing what its designed to do: filtering harmful substances from your blood, as well as processing food into the energy and nutrients required by your body.
- Your Heart: Long-term alcohol abuse will eventually weaken the heart muscle, causing it to actually sag slightly in the chest, resulting in a condition known as alcoholic cardiomyopathy. A weakened heart is incapable of pumping enough blood, often resulting in severe damage to organs and tissues. Cardiomyopathy symptoms include difficulties in breathing, constant fatigue, swollen feet and legs, and can even lead to heart failure.
- Your Pancreas: Heavy alcohol consumption will often result in either acute or chronic pancreatitis, leading to such symptoms as upper abdominal pain (often radiating into the back), swollen abdomen, fever, nausea, vomiting and an increased heart rate. Other symptoms may include extreme weight loss caused by malabsorption of food.
- Your Stomach: Alcohol acts as an irritant in your digestive system, and can interfere with the digestive process, thus robbing your body of necessary vitamins and minerals. Chronic irritation will also lead to severe damage of the stomach lining.
- Your Kidneys: Alcohol interferes with your kidneys ability to filter the waste that builds up within your body. Alcohol causes cell damage, kidney enlargement, and has a negative impact on many metabolic processes.
Alcohol Damages the Body Until You Stop Drinking Alcohol
Fortunately, the human body is a miracle of design, able to repair itself from almost any damage we force upon it, and this includes damage from alcohol. And the sooner we arm ourselves with the kind of knowledge in Rubins article the easier it becomes to once-and-for-all remove alcohol from our lives.
In addition to reading Dr. Rubins article, I strongly urge you to educate yourself about how damaging alcohol is to your body. Read every article and book that you can on the subject, until the true impact of how deadly this poison is to you is fully understood.
If you need a few additional health reasons to stop drinking alcohol see my article Reasons to Quit Drinking Alcohol. If you are not sure that you presently have the strength to quit or cut back right drinking, please read Take Action to Overcome Alcoholism, and make up your mind to do something today about your addiction no matter how small of an action you take.
Let your body heal itself by refusing to drink any more alcohol. Youll be glad you did.
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