E0: How Alcohol Affects Your Body: Here's What the Science Says

Sober Powered: The Neuroscience of Being Sober

Gillian Tietz, MS, CPRC

Science, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This episode is a deep dive into how alcohol affects the body, timestamps are below. This isn’t an episode meant to scare you, just to inform you about all the things you may be experiencing. Often we don’t know that alcohol is the cause. In the second half of the episode I’ll shift gears to the scary side of how alcohol impacts the body, specifically cancer and cirrhosis. I will give you a warning before I discuss the prognosis of cirrhosis so if that is information you don’t want to hear then you will be able to turn off the episode. I designed this episode to be the most comprehensive episode on how alcohol affects the body that has ever been released. Plus, it’s coming from a sober person who knows from personal experience. If this episode helps you, then I would really appreciate you sharing it to help me spread the word. What to listen to next: E231: everything you need to know about alcohol withdrawal E170: here's why the first year of sobriety is so hard E196: how the brain recovers after quitting drinking E211: the anticipation of a drink E224: alcohol makes your brain stop working E228: how alcohol automatically captures and holds your attention E240: post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS) Timestamps (may be shifted slightly due to ads. Thank you for listening to my ads to support all the work that goes into this podcast): 0:00-1:51 Intro 1:52-3:32 why alcohol makes you sweaty and red, night sweats 3:33-5:17 how alcohol affects sleep 5:18-13:00 heart rate and blood pressure 13:01-14:19 leg cramps 14:20-17:41 skin and aging 17:43-19:59 neurotoxin, alcoholic neuropathy 20:00-22:39 muscle building and losing body fat 22:40-24:24 alcohol shrinks the brain 24:25-27:58 how alcohol initially energizes us before making us exhausted 27:59-32:54 gut and oral health, inflammation, acid reflux 32:57-40:02 brain inflammation, memory and cognitive impairments 40:06-44:49 where does alcohol go after you drink it, alcohol metabolism 44:50-48:48 how alcohol metabolism changes when you drink heavily 48:49-50:23 why women typically have more health related consequences than men 50:24-59:06 how alcohol causes cancer 59:07-1:07 how alcohol causes fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and cirrhosis 1:08-end the prognosis for someone with cirrhosis About me: https://www.soberpowered.com/about Sober Support: Community & Meetings: Living a Sober Powered Life https://www.soberpowered.com/membership Anger Management Program https://www.soberpowered.com/anger Weekly emails on Fridays https://www.soberpowered.com/email Free resources https://www.soberpowered.com/free Thank you for supporting this show by supporting my sponsors. Learn more: https://www.soberpowered.com/sponsors If you enjoyed this episode please consider buying me a coffee to support my work https://www.buymeacoffee.com/soberpowered Sources are posted on my website Disclaimer: all of the information described in this podcast is my interpretation of the research combined with my opinion. This is not medical advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the sober-powered podcast. I'm your host Jill and this episode is a deep dive into how alcohol affects the body.
0:09.0	I'll have time stamps in the show notes if you'd like to hear specific things, but I do encourage you to listen to all of it over time.
0:17.0	This episode is not meant to scare you, just to inform you about all the things that you may be experiencing
0:24.6	because often we don't know that alcohol is the cause or a main contributor.
0:29.7	In the second half of the episode I'll shift gears to the scary side of how alcohol impacts the body, specifically cancer and cirrhosis.
0:39.2	I'll give you a warning before I discuss the prognosis of cirrhosis so if that's information that you don't want to hear then you will be able to safely turn off the episode.
0:49.0	I'll also recommend some episodes in the show notes for you to check out next for more information and if you're new here and you want to learn more about who I am then that will be in the show notes too.
1:00.4	I design this episode to be the most comprehensive episode on how alcohol affects the body that has ever been released.
1:08.0	Plus, it's coming from a sober person who knows from personal experience.
1:14.0	If this episode helps you, then I would really appreciate you sharing it
1:17.6	to help me spread the word and get this information out there
1:21.5	and spread the word about the sober community.
1:24.0	And with that, let's dig in. So, We have a lot to cover so stick with me the The first thing that I want to talk about is why alcohol makes us
1:56.4	sweaty and red. So the liver gives off heat as it processes alcohol, which can cause us to feel warm, but this actually lowers
2:06.2	our core temperature. Alcohol initially relaxes the blood vessels and it shifts
2:12.1	the distribution of blood throughout the body. the blood
2:13.6	throughout the body.
2:15.0	One example of this is facial flushing.
2:18.4	Body heat is lost as the blood rushes to the skin
2:22.1	and shifts away from our core.
2:24.6	We feel warmer because of this shift in blood,
2:28.2	but our core temperature is actually decreasing.
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