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i have some interesting information on

how much alcohol you would have to drink

before you develop

liver damage now in high school i drank

some alcohol in college

and then even after college i continued

to drink and experience many of those

what we call hangovers

and i even remember in my late 20s

they had these

i don’t know what they were called but

they’re like little 7-eleven stores

around town

and you can buy a margarita to go

and so of course i would get myself and

karen a margarita

drive home after work and then get in

this routine of drinking at least one or

two of those each night for about six

months

that probably was the thing that pushed

me over the edge because you’re

combining alcohol with sugar and i

noticed my back was very stiff my hands

were arthritic i had complete fatigue i

had bloodshot eyes and of course i was

doing what i thought

was healthy the time which now i know

was not very healthy but i had a very

low awareness of health at the time in

fact

i had zero attention on creating a

healthy body

but of course i was able to get away

with it for so many years until

eventually it caught up with me but

here’s the data in alcohol in one study

just 21 binge sessions

produced early stage liver disease

now when i’m talking about binge

drinking sessions i’m talking about more

than five drinks within a two hour

period and when i’m talking about a

drink

uh let me define a drink

that is point six ounces of pure alcohol

which would be equivalent to a can of

beer

eight ounce malt liquor

or a five ounce wine or a 1.5 ounce shot

of liquor so if you did five of those

21 times in a row that could potentially

push you right into an early stage liver

disease and he also found that just one

session of binge drinking

increases your liver enzymes now what

happens when you drink

is that about 25 percent of the alcohol

gets absorbed in your stomach into the

bloodstream and then the rest gets

absorbed in your small intestine now as

it goes through the bloodstream

it goes through your liver and your

liver now is going to break it down and

deal with this toxic material and in

this process of the stages of breakdown

of alcohol

the first stage is pretty toxic to your

liver cells that’s where you’re going to

get inflammation and eventually you’re

going to be getting scar tissue that’s

called cirrhosis but on average when you

drink just one drink

it takes about an hour with all the

different enzymes in your liver to break

it down into a

less toxic material but what happens

over time when you continue to do this

is you start to lose the enzyme network

that breaks down this toxic material and

then the toxic material builds up and it

creates a lot of damage within your

liver your pancreas etc what initially

happens first is that you start

developing fat in your liver and then

that fat can create inflammation which

can then lead to scar tissue and also

the fat can create insulin resistance

which can now increase inflammation so

it’s kind of a never ending cycle now as

far as inflammation in the liver okay

it’s called hepatitis that usually

starts within five years of heavy

drinking on a regular basis

now as far as cirrhosis or scar tissue

that usually takes between five to ten

or more years because if we keep that

liver in a constant state of

inflammation the body is going to start

healing with scar tissue because we also

now have the immune system involved but

what’s interesting is that this whole

period of time

you don’t have many symptoms you might

have some fatigue

you might look down and see your belly

but not necessarily all the time because

you also can have skinny fat words

throughout the organs but definitely if

your belly is sticking out that usually

means that your liver is fatty now there

also is a condition called ascites which

is not necessarily fat but it’s a

protruded belly because your liver is so

bad it’s leaking fluid into a sac around

your stomach so that situation is a

fluid-filled sac in your gut because

your liver is very very sick that’s a

very advanced stage of liver disease

and then as things progress then you

start developing more and more symptoms

arthritis would be one

itching through the body especially in

the bottom of your feet

you may have jaundice yellowness around

your eyes or your skin

you may have a spike in estrogen and a

lowering of your testosterone

and start developing man boobs things

like that but you’re definitely going to

feel lethargic kind of tired you might

have bad breath a loss of muscle but

other than that you’ll be perfectly fine

now there’s some other variables that

affect how alcohol affects your liver

number one the concentration of alcohol

that you’re drinking so you have diluted

drinks or you have more concentrated or

stronger alcohol so we have the

concentration if it’s carbonated or not

apparently carbonation increases

the

negative effect on your liver then you

have if you’re consuming any food with

that alcohol the food buffers the

negative effect of alcohol on your liver

but what happens is you have a

tremendous amount of oxidation in the

liver and you’re getting a lot of free

radical damage and the ability to

counter that with all these enzymes

becomes less and less and less then we

lose the liver function and now we can’t

detoxify and now we can’t digest like we

should and there’s dna damage and even

risk of liver cancer but people with

cirrhosis used to be diagnosed

maybe in their 40s or 50s or 60s but

nowadays it’s younger and younger 25

year olds are now being diagnosed with

cirrhosis

in fact between 1999 and 2016

the deaths from cirrhosis have increased

by 65 percent so more and more younger

people are are drinking and experiencing

the negative effects from that now

there’s a couple other things that you

need to know about liver damage

consuming sugar okay has roughly about

the same effect as consuming alcohol

especially if you’re drinking fructose

as in high fructose corn syrup so just

because someone’s not drinking alcohol

doesn’t mean they can end up with

any type of problem with the liver

and that is called non-alcoholic liver

disease also

a lot of the medications that people

take also cause a lot of liver damage

so i would say number one alcohol

sugar medications are the top three

things that can destroy the liver as

well as viruses

so if you decide to drink a lot and

become alcoholic it’s very very

important to eat healthy at the same

time

to minimize the damage that’s going to

occur on your liver and i’m being a

little funny here because usually if

someone is drinking a lot of alcohol

they’re probably on a high sugar diet at

the same time now the good news about

the liver

is that it is the only organ

that can completely 100 regenerate

if you stop doing the things that are

causing the destruction

in fact if you have a fatty liver you

can remove 50 of that fat from the liver

just within two weeks

of

avoiding those things that cause the fat

however there’s going to be a point of

no return where you’ve developed so much

scar tissue that

it’s going to be irreversible so

hopefully you’re not in that situation

yet but if you want to know how to

reverse the liver damage and turn things

around

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