why does chronic excessive drinking change how you look?
In: Biology
Collagen is a protein in your body that helps hold things together. When we build a big house we use a scaffold to hold things up and collagen can act like that scaffold. But when you drink a lot of alcohol, your body produces a lot of free radicals which act like darts. As these darts get more common, they start to punch little holes in the collagen scaffolding until it gets weak which means your skin starts to visibly sag and not appear as tone.
More of a ELI8 but I hope it works.
Latest Answers