Do you like to drink a lot?
 

The affects that alcohol have on the body are consistently predictable regardless of the use pattern. Alcohol is a mood altering depressant drug. The reason that alcohol can cause such extensive damage to the body because it can go everywhere. There is no body cell resistant to alcohol. The first stop is the stomach, where without food, alcohol is absorbed directly into the blood stream. Food will actually slow the absorption of alcohol as will fruit juice and water. Vomiting, one of the body?s defenses against an alcohol overdose, and is caused when you drink too much.

Alcohol moves quickly to the brain and passes the blood-brain barrier, which normally keeps harmful substances away from the brain. In the brain, alcohol affects the neurons, causing judgement problems, coordination problems, and a host of other problem.

Once in the blood stream, alcohol goes to the liver for detoxification, or break down, by the alcohol-attacking enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase. Eventually, the alcohol is broken down and excreted from the body.

Your Appearance - If you want to have clear skin and bright eyes, don?t drink alcohol. According to researchers, more than one or two drinks a week promote aging. Alcohol is considered a food with non-nutritional calories that quickly add up. When you abuse alcohol, you tend to be undernourished, making your hair dry, giving you cracked lips, aggravating acne, making your eyes look glassy, and giving your skin a puffy, broken vein look.

Your Brain - Alcohol is a depressant that slows brain activity down. While one or two drinks makes most people feel relaxed, more alcohol may cause feelings of anxiety, depression, and often aggression. Alcohol?s first effect as it reaches the outer brain is to distort your judgement and lower you inhibition, while producing euphoria (a sense of pleasure). As you consume more alcohol, and it reaches the cerebellum, your coordination and perception are affected, and you can have memory blackouts. As the alcohol reaches your mid-brain, reflexes diminish, you experience confusion, stupor, and may lapse into a coma. Once the alcohol finally reaches the medulla, or inner core of the brain, your heart rate drops and breathing ceases, resulting in death. Research suggests that continued alcohol use can cause depression. Alcohol robs brain cells of water and glucose, the brain?s food, contributing to a hangover the next day.

Your Gastrointestinal Tract - The stomach is irritated by alcohol, causing increased stomach acid production, causing heartburn and eventually ulcers. Alcohol use is linked to cancer of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and intestines. The liver, due to it?s role in breaking down alcohol, suffers the most damage. Alcohol use leads to destruction of liver cells, fat accumulation around the liver, and cirrhosis which is a fatal condition. Alcohol is also a diuretic, which causes the kidneys to incre ase urinary output, contributing to dehydration and your hangover.

Your Reproductive System - Although the research here is new, it is know that alcohol decreases the male hormone testosterone. Long-term use causes not only decreased function, but size. The use of alcohol in men and women causes increased sexual desire, but decreased performance. Alcohol is toxic to unborn children causing permanent tissue and organ damage.

Other - Alcohol depresses the body?s immune system making it easier to get sick. It also disrupts your sleep patterns, further depressing the immune system. Alcohol has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, constipation, and strokes.

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I'd rather drink than smoke

I drink but I make sure it's always within reasonable limits.

I have one or two glasses or red everyday.

thanks for the info, quite interresting and scary

drinking makes me get less work done.

even Dr. Phill recommends that.... or may be it was Oprah

Not gonna stop me from having a drink once in a while... or getting pissed drunk.

I drink two to three times a week.

cheers! glugglug

thanks for making me realize that alcohol has bad effects. if i am not mistaken, that's a new discovery right?

Yes, and please, stay out of cigarettes. They cause lung cancer.

No, but sometimes I got drunk too much so thanks for the info.

I only drink a lot when the leprechauns tell me to.

I drink a lot, daily.. I find it helps me work better..

I drink a bottle of beer or a glass of wine every night

I only drink on occasions.

That is actually really healthy for you. If you drink 1 or 2 glasses of red a day then you lower your chances of having cardiovascular problems by 40%. It's known as the French Paradox and will help increase your lifespan. :thumbsup

I drink a glass or two of red a night myself.

My drinking is hard right now, this was not a funny read :Oh crap

Ive been doing ~3 bottles of vodka a week for the last 2-3 years atleast

Good read... I hate alcoholics.

Alcohol is for losers.

weired ???????

I like to drink only on the weekends anyways

I used to...but not these days. I've had to tone it down for various reasons.

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I could have learned ctrl c, ctrl v before I started drinking:(

I am getting black out drunk right now to forget about all of this.

I need to tone down my drinking a bit...Well alot. Jager is just too damn good though!

Every two weeks we kinda go mad. Im a sucker for a bottle of apple shots and a bottle of peach schnappes. The reason I drink so much is cause of the size of the glass.

I take the shots bottle and pour me apint glass and I take the schnappes and fill me a pint glass. I cant help it, I get thirsty.

Although its not very good for me. Binge drinking is very bad..

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What is considered allot anywayz ? 1 or 2 drinks/week ? LOL.. that'z breakfast before wheaties =)

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Id rather smoke than drink :stoned

How dare you spread such lies about alcohol like that how dare you

Mwuuah... :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

WHAT? Alchohol doesn't make you sexier, smarter, and more better at everything you try? Damn!

I will do any intoxicating substance (except those that involve needles), anytime, anywhere

you only live once!

I realised I had a problem when I lost it after realising I couldn't have my cereals that morning cause I was out of beer.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Sounds like a plan to me!!!

That is terrible, I hope you dont chug it atleast. A pint glass is 16 shots of Schnapes, and the other is 16 shots of apple shots.

I wouldnt even attempt that, even though the % is low 20's, that shit is dangerous in quantity.

I totally agree with you here man :stoned

All things in moderation... including moderation! We're young healthy people who like to party every once in a while... big deal!

We all know about the negative effects of alcohol, but let's be honest - who cares?

Why is marihuana not legal? It's a natural plant that grows in the dirt, you know what's not natural? 80 year old dudes with hard-ons, that's not natural, but we got pills for that...

no, usually no,... but on some parties... I drink a lot :)

I haven't touched alcohol in a long time. Don't plan to anytime soon either. Although I don't drink, I have no problem with people drinking as long as it doesn't become a public safety issue.