How does alcohol impacts your health?
It starts with the liver
Medical Medium goes into detail in Liver Rescue. When you drink alcohol the liver’s job is to soak up every drop to protect our brain and body. Alcohol in any amount is toxic.
Alcohol soaks into all three levels of the liver, from its outer layer to the deep inner layer, where most harmful toxins are stored to protect us.
It takes 90 days for the body to expel all residual alcohol from a night of drinking.
Liver damage from alcohol doesn’t just happen in heavy drinkers. Combining a single glass of wine every other night with a diet high in fats can lead to pericirrihosis, A Medical Medium term for the precusor to eventual precirrihosis and cirrihosis, which doesn’t show up on medical scans.
All of this happens inside the liver before someone starts to feel drunk, which is all about the brain.
Alcohol is an all time trick on the brain as the brain believes alcohol is glucose (sugar)
What people don’t hear is that when we consume alcohol, the alcohol begins killing our brain, starving the brain to death.
Our brain requires glucose, sugar, in order to function, and most people’s brains are already borderline glucose deficient from poor diets, unproductive trendy diets and lifestyles and toxic exposures, along with high stress that drains the brain of precious glucose reserves.
When we drink, alcohol enters our bloodstream and something dastardly happens to our brain: it gets tricked.
Our brain sees alcohol as sugar, as glucose, but yet alcohol is not sugar or glucose—it’s the ghost of sugar, it’s what sugar once was.
Only the essence of sugar is left, the phantom sugar, but yet our brain absorbs the alcohol as if it’s pure sugar, pure glucose. That’s when symptoms occur that aren’t from the effects of the alcohol, but instead from the effects of the brain starting to starve as it’s feeding off of the alcohol, as if it was real sugar and real glucose, but isn’t.
As the brain is taking in the alcohol, it loses strength and starts to weaken fast, causing slurred speech. As someone is getting intoxicated from drinking and they are getting tipsy and loosening up (which is not a result of how toxic the alcohol is, but a result of how fast the brain goes downhill when being starved from sugar), alcohol overrides the brain’s ability to choose wisely on other sugar sources, especially if those sugar sources have already been utilized.
If the bloodstream is empty of any easily accessible glucose, our brain becomes even more susceptible to alcohol, and instead what’s left is the alcohol in the bloodstream while we are drinking.
This is why if someone drinks on an empty stomach they will get drunk faster.
The problem is the alcohol is not real sugar anymore, it’s the ghost of sugar. It’s not what our brain needs to survive—it does the opposite: it starts to kill our brain. Without sugar, our brain dies. The more alcohol we drink, the more brain starvation symptoms occur. Too much alcohol can lead to eventually a combination of the brain starving to death and alcohol poisoning. But these are two very different occurrences, and the combination can make someone’s drinking condition so much worse.
One of your functions of your liver is to store glucose to release into your body when you need it and you’re in a deficit and the liver starts to release glucose reserves that go to the brain. This explains how people stay alive when water fasting, their liver glucose is being released to keep them going.
When alcohol is entering your body your liver has to be absorbing the alchol poisoning and as it’s becoming poisoned its not releasing the glucose to your brain, eventually your liver becomes paralysed and it’s main job is to focus on absorbing alcohol and to store it and stop it going to your brain.
It’s impossible for the liver to do it’s job and it gets oversaturated and it starts to push any glucose in the blood stream away and the brain starve to death, slurred speech, blacking out, loosing balance can then result.
Symptoms we see when someone is drunk its not just from alcohol its it’s symptoms of the brain starting the die as less glucose is getting into brain cells.Slurred speech and loss of balance are signs your brain is dying.
Drinking can reduce the brain’s ability to utilise healthy glucose by up to 95%, depending on how much alcohol someone consumes.
Even 5% capacity is enough to keep someone alive through a bender, but this back and forth between normal and survival mode takes a massive toll, and the brain begins to die.
Addictive Adrenaline
As your brain struggles to stay alive when on alcohol, our adrenals kick in as a back up. Adrenaline is designed to provide a quick source of fuel to the brain in the absence of glucose. Adrenaline also floods the body when we’re in any kind of danger, so there is a double whammy happening when we drink alcohol.
- Adrenal to feed and protect the brain
- Adrenaline in response to a poisonous substance entering our bloodstream
This is a huge missing piece in the understanding of alcohol addiction. Adrenaline is highly addictive, and adrenaline is an inevitable byproduct of drinking alcohol.
This is one reason when people drink they get suddenly energised: shouting, singing, laughing and feeling on top of the world, it’s from all the adrenaline that’s released from a night of drinking.
Adrenaline effects everyone differently, making some angry drunks, while others become sad and withdrawn. The adrenaline may kick some into high gear increasing risky or out of character behaviour while it can subdue others.
Adrenaline is true liquid courage as it flood our bodies and overrides normal behaviour, alongside brain impairment from a loss of its food source. And that sense of courage keeps you coming back for more and more, no matter how bad you feel the next day.
Be careful with the moderation trap. Of course one glass of wine is better than the whole bottle, any amount of alcohol is toxic to your liver, brain and body.
The excess adrenaline released while drinking is very draining to your adrenal glands that are responsible for your energy levels and producing the majority of your sex hormones.
This is why even after a small amount of alcohol you can feel really tired and drained the next morning and day.
Choosing a Wholesome Life Free of Alcohol
Committing to choosing an alcohol free life has been one of the best decisions I’ve made for my health.
Initially it was a bit awkward in social situations with others drinking and the pressure to “just have one” but as I became more aware and conscious about how my body loves to be cared for, not drinking alcohol that’s poisonous to my body is a natural choice.
Becoming a pioneer of a new path of health and healing
For my clients I recommend avoiding alcohol and instead focus on life giving hydration in lemon water, celery juice, cucumber juice, watermelon juice and coconut water.
There are fun mocktails you can make at home with sparkling water and organic grape juice, fruit punch with a base of organic grape juice, raw honey and lots of chopped up fruits and there are so many alcohol free alternatives you can choose now as awareness grows on the benefits of being free of alcohol for your health.
If you are committed to the path of healing your body, regenerating and addressing the root cause behind symptoms avoiding alcohol is really essential.
Life is so wonderful when you honour your body and find healthy wholesome ways to get a natural joy from time in nature, soul enriching conversations with family and friends, dancing and time in nature, playing with your children and grandchildren.
Your liver, brain and whole being will thank you and not to mention the money saved that can be put towards healing foods, supplements and life giving experiences.
Let me know are you inspired to be free of alcohol and have you made this journey already share what’s helped you?
To your health and energy,
Aisling xo
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