The liver has amazing regenerative abilities, but scarring is just too much for it to handle, why is that?
In: 541
Alcohol, with its endless properties, can dilute and “break” the chemical mixture made by the liver to heal itself.
Your liver will actively try to heal itself while you are abusing alcohol, and since the alcohol makes this process fail, or atleast not be as potent, the liver fails to turn scar tissue into living cells, meaning it loses its healing capabilities everytime it is exposed to more alcohol than it can handle.
If, in some magical alternative universe, a livers healing capabilities were paused and essentially got whitewashed by pure alcohol for 20 years, it could still fix itself. However the owner of the liver would be dead very fast without a working liver that carries out a plethora of functions during that time but yknow, it is how it is.
It’s not the copious amounts of alcohol that damages your liver, it’s the liver itself trying to heal through that damage actively, during the consumption.
I am no way qualified to be the one to explain this but I hope it helps ✌️
Edit: misspelling
Latest Answers