Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. I have some interesting information on how much alcohol you would have to drink

before you develop liver damage. Now, in high school, I drank some alcohol in college,

and then even after college, I continue to drink and experience many of those, what we call

hangovers. And I even remember in my late 20s, they had these, I don't know what they were called,

but they were like little 7-Eleven stores around town, and you can buy a margarita to go. And so,

of course, I would get myself and Karen a margarita, drive home after work,

and then get in this routine of drinking at least one or two of those each night.

For about six months, that probably was the thing that pushed me over the edge,

because you're combining alcohol with sugar.

And I noticed my back was very stiff. My hands were arthritic.

I had complete fatigue. I had bloodshot eyes. And of course, I was doing what I thought was healthy

at the time, which now I know was not very healthy. But I had a very low awareness of health

at the time. In fact, I had zero attention on creating a healthy body.

But of course, I was able to get away with it for so many years until eventually it caught up

with me. But here's the data on alcohol. In one study, just 21 binge sessions produced early

stage liver disease.

Now when I'm talking about binge drinking sessions, I'm talking about more than five drinks within a two-hour period.

And when I'm talking about a drink, let me define a drink.

That is 0.6 ounces of pure alcohol, which would be equivalent to a can of beer, 8 ounce malt

liquor, or a 5 ounce wine, or a 1.5 ounce shot of liquor. So if you did five of those,

21 times in a row, that could potentially push you right into an early stage liver disease.

And he also found that just one session of binge drinking increases your liver enzymes.

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