Most people get a hangover, even heavy drinkers may experience mild withdrawal symptoms when they drink for a few days. How can alcohol kill a serious alcoholic when they stop drinking? What actually kills them?
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When you constantly have alcohol in your system the body adapts by changing the amount of various hormones it produces. Specifically in the GABAergic system where the GABAA receptor gets down regulated. This is a receptor in the neural system which respond to various drugs such as alcohol and benzodiazapines but also other hormones vital for the functioning of the central nervous system (brain). So simply said the alcohol replaces vital hormones in the brain and pushing it out of the body. When you suddenly stop drinking the hormones does not get produced and this damages the nerves causing the brain to die.
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