Drinking too much –
on a single occasion or over time – can take a serious toll on your
health. Here’s how alcohol can affect your body; it can cause serious
damages to your brain, heart, liver pancreas and can cause other disease such
as cancers (throat, mouth, nose, etc. )
- Brain:
Alcohol interferes
with the brain’s communication pathways, and can affect the way the brain looks
and works. These disruptions can change mood and behavior, and make it harder
to think clearly and move with coordination.
- Heart:
Drinking a lot over
a long time or too much on a single occasion can damage the heart, causing
problems including:
*Cardiomyopathy – Stretching
and drooping of heart muscle
*Arrhythmias – Irregular heart
beat
*Stroke
*High blood
pressure
Research also shows
that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol
may protect healthy adults from developing coronary heart disease.
- Liver:
Heavy drinking takes
a toll on the liver, and can lead to a variety of problems and liver
inflammations including:
*Steatosis, or fatty liver
*Alcoholic hepatitis
*Fibrosis
*Cirrhosis
- Pancreas:
Alcohol causes the
pancreas to produce toxic substances that can eventually lead to pancreatitis,
a dangerous inflammation and swelling of the blood vessels in the pancreas that
prevents proper digestion.
- Cancer:
Drinking too much
alcohol can increase your risk of developing certain cancers, including cancers
of the:
*Mouth
* Esophagus
*Throat
*Liver
*Breast
- Immune System:
Drinking too much
can weaken your immune system, making your body a much easier target for
disease. Chronic drinkers are more liable to contract diseases like
pneumonia and tuberculosis than people who do not drink too much.
Drinking a lot on a single occasion slows your body’s ability to ward off
infections – even up to 24 hours after getting drunk.