E0: How Alcohol Affects Your Body: Here's What the Science Says

This episode is a deep dive into how alcohol affects the body, timestamps are below. This isn’t an episode meant to scare you, just to inform you about all the things you may be experiencing. Often we don’t know that alcohol is the cause. In the second half of the episode I’ll shift gears to the scary side of how alcohol impacts the body, specifically cancer and cirrhosis. I will give you a warning before I discuss the prognosis of cirrhosis so if that is information you don’t want to hear then you will be able to turn off the episode.

I designed this episode to be the most comprehensive episode on how alcohol affects the body that has ever been released. Plus, it’s coming from a sober person who knows from personal experience. If this episode helps you, then I would really appreciate you sharing it to help me spread the word.

What to listen to next:

E231: everything you need to know about alcohol withdrawal

E170: here's why the first year of sobriety is so hard

E196: how the brain recovers after quitting drinking

E211: the anticipation of a drink

E224: alcohol makes your brain stop working

E228: how alcohol automatically captures and holds your attention

E240: post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS)

Timestamps (may be shifted slightly due to ads. Thank you for listening to my ads to support all the work that goes into this podcast):

0:00-1:51 Intro

1:52-3:32 why alcohol makes you sweaty and red, night sweats

3:33-5:17 how alcohol affects sleep

5:18-13:00 heart rate and blood pressure

13:01-14:19 leg cramps

14:20-17:41 skin and aging

17:43-19:59 neurotoxin, alcoholic neuropathy

20:00-22:39 muscle building and losing body fat

22:40-24:24 alcohol shrinks the brain

24:25-27:58 how alcohol initially energizes us before making us exhausted

27:59-32:54 gut and oral health, inflammation, acid reflux

32:57-40:02 brain inflammation, memory and cognitive impairments

40:06-44:49 where does alcohol go after you drink it, alcohol metabolism 

44:50-48:48 how alcohol metabolism changes when you drink heavily

48:49-50:23 why women typically have more health related consequences than men

50:24-59:06 how alcohol causes cancer

59:07-1:07 how alcohol causes fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and cirrhosis

1:08-end the prognosis for someone with cirrhosis

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Disclaimer: all of the information described in this podcast is my interpretation of the research combined with my opinion. This is not medical advice.

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