Some of the ways alcohol affects our health are well known, but others may surprise you. Here are six less-known effects that alcohol has on your body, according to gastroenterologist K.
Narayanan Menon, MD :. Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Your liver detoxifies and removes alcohol from the blood through a process known as oxidation. Once the liver finishes the process, alcohol becomes water and carbon dioxide. Many Australians enjoy a drink. Like all drugs, alcohol can damage your body, especially if you drink heavily every day or in binges.
Even small amounts of alcohol are still linked to the development of certain diseases, including numerous cancers. Alcohol affects your body in many ways. Some effects are immediate and last only a while; others accumulate over time and may significantly affect your physical and mental health and quality of life.
How much harm alcohol causes your body depends on how much you drink, your pattern of drinking, and even the quality of the alcohol you drink. Your body size and composition, age, drinking experience, genetics, nutritional status, metabolism, and social factors all play a part as well. The severity of the short-term effects of alcohol typically depends on how much a person drinks, but other factors such as hydration and food consumption also play a role.
Most people can recognise the signs and treat the symptoms themselves. Some people can experience a hangover from one drink. The severity of a hangover often has to do with how your body metabolises alcohol, as when you drink, alcohol triggers a number of reactions in your body. These reactions can contribute to hangover. They include:.
Most hangovers typically start once your blood alcohol level starts to return closer to zero. Hangovers generally only last up to 24 hours, and go away on their own. Pacing yourself aiming to drink one drink or less every hour , and drinking water between alcoholic drinks may reduce the severity of a hangover.
If you are regularly experiencing hangovers, or hangovers are affecting your relationships, work or life in general, talk to your doctor about potentially cutting back your drinking. Sometimes heavy drinking results in the much more serious effect of alcohol poisoning.
This is a life-threatening emergency. Call for emergency care if you see these signs in someone who has been drinking:. If someone is unconscious or cannot be woken up, they could be at risk of dying.
If you suspect someone has alcohol poisoning — even if you don't see the signs and symptoms — seek immediate medical attention. Historically it has been believed that consuming on average more than two standard drinks a day is what can cause many long-term health problems and other harms.
Nowadays, current research states that any level of alcohol consumption can pose an increased risk of chronic disease development. The WHO reports that in , 5. Worldwide, more men die as a result of alcohol consumption than women. Generally, binge drinking means drinking heavily over a short period of time with the intention and result of getting immediately and severely intoxicated drunk. In the short term, binge drinking may result in a hangover, alcohol poisoning, or any of the other short-term effects of alcohol consumption, such as accidents and violence, discussed above.
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