Between 30-40% of American adults have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition with no visible signs that rarely causes symptoms. Despite its near-invisibility, NAFLD raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. What’s more, a recent study suggests that people with a high-risk variant of the PNPLA3 gene are much more likely to have NAFLD if they’re obese than if they’re thin. [1]
According to a long-standing myth (and it IS a myth), drinking lots of coffee can sober you up if you’re drunk. While coffee can’t bring you back to reality or fix a sick liver, it may protect the organ against damage.
Like it or not, alcohol is a poison. Even the doctor or nurse rubs alcohol on the body prior to an injection in order to kill any pathogenic micro-organisms which might be lingering on the skin. Its killing capacity is that effective and dependable. Why then do not people understand that the over-consumption of alcohol can have highly destructive effects on their organs and tissues?
Just one sip of beer, wine, or whisky hangs out in your body for about 2 hours. Once it quickly enters your bloodstream, it touches down on nearly every organ and system in your body. [1]
