How Much Alcohol Would You Have to Drink Before Liver Damage

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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 this is the video you need to watch next