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2. One Common Habit That Could Be Damaging Your Liver ... - AOL

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   Negbenebor points out that the earliest signs of liver damage would be abnormal liver function tests seen on a routine lab test that's usually ordered by your primary care doctor during an annual ...

3. Alcohol Contributes To 100K Cancer Cases Every Year—Here's ...

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   You may have heard warnings about how alcohol can damage the liver, but it can also affect organs throughout your entire body.And it starts as soon as you take a sip. “Alcohol is first absorbed ...

4. Alcoholic liver disease - Wikipedia

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   Sex: Women are twice as susceptible to alcohol-related liver disease, and may develop alcoholic liver disease with shorter durations and doses of chronic consumption. The lesser amount of alcohol dehydrogenase secreted in the gut, higher proportion of body fat in women, and changes in alcohol absorption due to the menstrual cycle may explain ...

5. Alcohol and health - Wikipedia

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   Enzymes. Women have lower levels of two enzymes—alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase—that metabolize (break down) alcohol in the stomach and liver. As a result, women absorb more alcohol into their bloodstreams than men. Hormones. Changes in hormone levels during the menstrual cycle may also affect how a woman metabolizes alcohol.

6. The One Surprising Habit That Could Drastically Improve Your ...

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   When liver damage is advanced, Dr. Bhinder says that the immune system becomes severely weakened due to a decrease in white blood cells and platelets, explaining, “The liver plays a very ...

7. Alcohol tolerance - Wikipedia

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   Direct alcohol tolerance is largely dependent on body size. Large-bodied people will require more alcohol to reach insobriety than lightly built people. [4] The alcohol tolerance is also connected with activity of alcohol dehydrogenases (a group of enzymes responsible for the breakdown of alcohol) in the liver, and in the bloodstream.

8. Long-term effects of alcohol - Wikipedia

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   The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...

9. Can alcohol cause cancer? Here's what the science says

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   A growing body of evidence has shown links between cancer and drinking alcohol. In a warning Friday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said cancer risk increases with the number of drinks, but ...