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Excessive alcohol consumption can significantly affect the liver and contribute to three types of liver disease: Excessive buildup of fat in the liver, also known as fatty liver or hepatic steatosis. Inflammation of the liver or alcoholic hepatitis. Replacement of normal liver tissue by scared tissue or alcohol-related cirrhosis. Fatty liver.
Below, we’ll explore the early signs of alcohol-related liver disease, what alcohol actually does to your liver, and what steps you can take in your day-to-day life to improve your liver...
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is caused by excessive alcohol consumption, which is defined as five or more drinks in a day or 15 or more drinks a week for men, and four or more drinks a day or eight or more drinks a week for women.
In the long term, prolonged alcohol use can cause severe damage to your liver. Your liver has a specific pathway that the toxins follow to be broken down, so if over time, this pathway becomes overwhelmed by too many toxins, it can affect the efficiency of your liver’s work. In other words: It can’t keep up. Advertisement.
This article looks at the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol on the liver and what happens if you drink alcohol occasionally, daily, or heavily. It also explains the consequences of heavy drinking and whether it's possible to recover from liver damage after heavy alcohol use.
Heavy alcohol use can severely damage the liver and cause a number of liver diseases, which can negatively impact your health. Find out more.
Steatotic (fatty) liver can happen in anyone who consumes a lot of alcohol. Alcohol-associated hepatitis and cirrhosis are linked to long-term unhealthy alcohol use. Healthcare providers don’t know why some people who drink alcohol get liver disease while others do not.
Alcoholic hepatitis is swelling, called inflammation, of the liver caused by drinking alcohol. Drinking alcohol destroys liver cells. Alcoholic hepatitis most often happens in people who drink heavily over many years.
Alcohol’s effects go far beyond hangovers. Prolonged drinking affects your liver, brain, immune system and more. Learn why.
Over years of regular and excessive drinking, sustained damage to the liver from alcohol can cause liver cancer, alcohol-associated liver disease and cirrhosis. Liver cancer often has no signs or symptoms until it reaches an advanced stage.