EP 724: Reader’s Question - How Does Alcohol Affect Hormones?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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How does alcohol affect hormones, and why should you care? Join Annie Grace on This Naked Mind’s podcast as she uncovers the science behind alcohol's impact on your endocrine system. We'll explore how a few drinks can disrupt your body's natural balance, leading to issues like hormonal imbalance, thyroid problems, and a weakened immune system. Whether you're struggling with mood swings, low energy, or fertility concerns, this episode will shed light on the hidden ways alcohol might be affecting your health. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you’re ready to see how This Naked Mind can help you on your personal health and wellness journey and wanna learn more. Go to ThisNakedMindpodcast.com to learn more. Again, that’s ThisNakedMindpodcast.com. We have all of our free resources, programs, social links, and more available for you there. Plus, if you have your own Naked Life Story, you can submit it there as well. Until next week, stay curious.

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0:00.0	Hey there!
0:05.0	Every month Annie has a call with our Path 365 members and answers their questions.
0:09.5	She tackles a wide range of topics from what to do with big emotions what kinds of tips and
0:13.4	advice she has for addressing difficult situations how to deal with cravings and
0:16.9	so much more listen in as she does some real life coaching for our path
0:20.4	members. Hi, this is Annie Grace and I am answering readers questions and the question I have
0:30.8	today is like how does alcohol affect our hormones?
0:35.1	So this is such a great question and alcohol has like as you would imagine because the
0:40.5	impact of alcohol on the body in general is just massive and it's interesting my son was
0:46.7	asking me recently he's like mom why don't people drink hand sanitizer it's like like, well, that's a good question.
0:53.7	Because the type of alcohol in hand sanitizer, A is different, slightly different.
0:59.0	It's a different type of alcohol. It's much, you know, it's even more harmful. The type of alcohol that we drink is actually ethanol and that's the type of alcohol. I think the type of alcohol in hand sanitizer is isopropol alcohol if I'm not mistaken I could be wrong about that but it's a different type of alcohol
1:19.7	Ethanol is the only one that allows us to even drink it,
1:23.6	although in very, very little doses, it would kill us.
1:26.8	But you can't even drink those other kinds.
1:28.6	You throw it up immediately because they're,
1:30.1	you know, mouthwash, stuff like that,
1:31.4	it's just not the same. Your body can't even process it's that toxic but ethanol we can actually process
1:38.3	although it's still wildly toxic so it affects so many parts of the body and especially the endocrine system of course your
1:46.2	hormonal system is a really really big impact so what the endocrine system does is it really helps all your organs and parts of your body and pieces to your body communicate and maintain more or less homeostasis, so stay in balance, right?
2:06.5	So if something's out of whack, you might have weight gain or hair loss or different things
2:10.9	that are symptoms to say like your system is out of balance.
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