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Alcohol reduces how the body can replace scar tissue.
When the liver processes it, some liver cells die and are replaced by scar tissue that can’t filter anything anymore.
With prolonged alcohol abuse, this might lead to permanent liver damage as the cells lose the ability to regenerate.
Alcohol is a poison that can kill you in high enough doses by causing parts of your body to shut down (like the parts of your brain responsible telling your heart to beat). Your liver helps keep you from dying by turning alcohol into other stuff that is less poisonous, then eventually organs like your kidneys can remove that stuff from the body. However, even the less poisonous stuff is bad for your liver in high enough concentration, so over long periods of time your liver gets more and more damaged. Eventually your liver can’t do its regular day-to-day job of processing other toxic byproducts of your body’s systems, and so you start to get poisoned by your own body’s waste.
I heard a biochemist say that if alcohol was regulated by the FDA, as a new product, the acceptable ANNUAL dose would be about a 5 Oz glass of wine. It really is pretty darn toxic!
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