Alcohol and Your Body
One of the more powerful reasons to stop drinking alcohol is to recognize the disastrous effect it has on your body. From your physical appearance to your internal organs, alcohol can cause untold damage - oftentimes unseen to the naked eye, or unknown without a visit to the doctor. The articles in this section help point out just a few of the physical consequences that you will experience when you drink alcohol.
Alcohol and Testosterone If you're a guy and you're STILL unsure whether to reduce or eliminate alcohol from your diet, here's yet another fact for you to ponder: alcohol lowers testosterone and increases estrogen. This boatload of extra estrogen causes many men to develop the secondary physical characteristics of a woman, such as extra breast tissue, loss of body hair and more. All of this added estrogen is a bad thing for women, as well, as it creates a virtual breeding ground for a myriad of diseases.
Alcohol Made You Sick If you're trying to quit or cut back on your alcohol intake, one of the more important steps is to constantly remind yourself of all the negative experiences related to your alcohol abuse. Perhaps the biggest negative experience most of us have faced is the vomiting and sickness that is the result of alcohol abuse. How many times in your life did you end up getting sick from drinking?
Alcohol is a Liar An important step in overcoming alcoholism and alcohol addiction is to recognize alcohol for what it is - a liar and a thief. Alcohol has lied to YOU, and stolen from YOU - in every way imaginable. You wouldn't put up with this from a spouse or loved one. Why put up with it from a stupid beverage?!
Alcohol Damages the Body The evidence that excessive alcohol consumption is damaging to our bodies has been piling up for a number of years. Here is an older article I found that helps point out some of the negative consequences of drinking alcohol.
Beer, Hops and Estrogen Drinking hop-based beers can dramatically increase the level of estrogen in your body, bringing about internal and external changes that are far from desirable. This is true even with non-alcoholic beers, and beers that are consider "lite" or "low calorie".
Kudzu and Alcoholism Kudzu has traditionally been used as a remedy for alcoholism and hangovers in Chinese Traditional Medicine. But is all of this hype true? A few years back I decided to give it a try and judge for myself if kudzu was all it was cracked up to be. Here are the results.
FAQ's I've noticed that a few of the same questions keep popping up over the years. Perhaps these are the same ones you have about alcoholism, sobriety, or this website specifically. By the way, I don't claim to be an expert on alcoholism, so these are just my honest answers based on my own personal experience.