Stop Drinking Alcohol For 30 Days And THIS Happens

The benefits are far reaching . By the end of this video , you'll see why so many people who try to stop for 30 days think twice before picking up the next drink .

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So our body breaks down and expels alcohol at a constant rate . In other words , it doesn't matter if your last drinking session consisted of one drink only or if you got absolutely hammered .

Your liver will work at its own fixed pace , which in practice means eliminating about 14 grams of alcohol an hour , or about one drink per hour , and there is nothing that you can do to speed this process up . Contrary to popular myth , hydrating well or drinking lots of coffee will not actually help .

Instead , you will just have to wait patiently while the poison actually leaves your body . The good news is that , no matter how much you've had to drink , after about 10 to 12 hours all the alcohol will most probably have been metabolized .

Now , unfortunately , getting rid of the alcohol leads you with one last hurdle to climb , part two , recovering from the last hangover . So , for all the massive research on alcohol and alcohol abuse disorders , scientists have allocated remarkably little effort in studying the hangover .

To this day , there is no consensus on what causes it , and there is no explanation for its most puzzling characteristic , namely that it pops its ugly head after alcohol levels have declined . It actually peaks in intensity just when the alcohol levels at zero A bit of farewell , so to speak .

One theory is that the hangover is simply the first phase of acute alcohol withdrawal . Another is that it's caused by acetodehyde , the main metabolite of ethanol . Support for this latter theory comes from how similar some hangover symptoms are to those that you get from experimentally inducing high acetodehyde levels .

Whatever causes it , even the most severe hangovers will have resolved 24 hours after the last drink , and at this point the worst is behind you . Which leads us into part three fatty liver reversal . So if you've been drinking heavily , chances are that you will have developed fatty liver .

This is a condition where fat accumulates in your liver cells , causing it to literally enlarge in size , just like any other part of the body that gets fat . Though it often has no symptoms , fatty liver in and of itself is a marker of poor lifestyle and impaired health , and if you don't treat it , it can progress to more serious forms of liver disease .

Now , among heavy drinkers , fatty liver is near universal . Now the good news is that , if it hasn't progressed to more serious forms of disease , fatty liver will resolve very fast Insanely fast , given the unimaginable abuse that you might have been piling on it for the years . After only two to three weeks , the fatty liver will have reversed .

This structural improvement is accompanied by a dramatic improvement in markers of liver function . By the end of the month , you can expect your blood ALST and AST levels to also fall significantly . These are liver enzymes that are elevated in heavy drinkers because they literally leak out of the damaged liver cells into the bloodstream .

One month of abstinence and their levels will have dropped substantially , which leads us into part four , which is dramatic blood pressure improvement . So one of the most common adverse effects of heavy drinking is chronically elevated blood pressure . This in turn is linked to an increased risk of death from all sorts of conditions .

These include heart diseases , stroke , blood clots , you name it . Now , unfortunately , close to half the people who have high blood pressure just don't even know it . If you are a heavy drinker and haven't tested your blood pressure in a while , chances are is that you'll be in for a nasty surprise when you see the result .

However , the good news is that blood pressure will normalise remarkably fast after you stop . In one study with a group of heavy drinkers in London , one month of abstinence was enough to reduce the systolic blood pressure from an average of 136 to 125 , and diastolic pressure fell from 89 to 82 .

This is the same kind of drop that you'd get from anti-hyperintensive medications . Think about it for a minute . You get the same effects if you were taking meds without the meds , without the side effects , without seeing the doctor , without paying a penny . Pretty good deal .

And unlike the meds which you have to take for the best of your life , the drop in pressure is permanent . How cool is that ? Part 5 , we've got blood markers improving . Now , the London study that we just mentioned found that one month of abstinence led to significant improvements in all sorts of blood markers .

Triglycerides and total cholesterol were significantly lowered , as was insulin resistance , which is typically a hallmark of an unhealthy lifestyle . Part 6 , we've got cancer-related growth factors . So a startling finding of the London study was that only one month of abstinence was enough to lower the risk of cancer .

Now , this was established through the rapid decrease in blood levels of two growth factor proteins called vascular endothelial growth factor , vegf , and epidermal growth factor EGF . Our body naturally produces these growth factors and they are essential to its normal functioning . They regulate the growth , differentiation and survival of ourselves .

At the same time , overexpression of these growth factors is linked to the appearance and development of all sorts of solid tumors . The tumors then use these growth factor proteins to develop uncontrollably and grow in size throughout the body . Many novel cancer treatments now being researched target these growth factors specifically .

Remarkably , only one month of abstinence was enough to dramatically lower both of these growth factors VEGF levels dropped by 40% and EGF by a whopping 79% . This is pretty encouraging when you consider that alcohol is a known carcinogen .

It's proven to directly increase the risk of developing all sorts of solid tumors , including the mouth , throat , liver , breast , esophagus and colon . At part 7 , your bone density starts restoring . So heavy drinkers tend to suffer from reduced bone density , so-called osteopenia . This leads to a weakening of the bones and it increases the risk of fractures .

Scientists aren't exactly sure why this is so . It might be related to nutritional deficiencies and poor absorption of Vitamin D , or to alcohol's effects on the hormonal system , or even on alcohol directly attacking the bones . What we do know for sure is that markers of bone density show a dramatic improvement just a few short weeks after your final drink .

Now one study measured the levels of the protein osteocalcin in heavy drinkers who had just stopped drinking . Osteocalcin is a convenient marker of bone formation and overall bone health . Now three weeks of abstinence were enough to bring about a dramatic increase in the average osteocalcin levels .

The increase was so high that the average osteocalcin levels of the former drinkers were no longer significantly different from those of a control group of non-heavy drinkers . At number 8 , we've got brain changes . So if you are a regular viewer of this channel , you probably know very well by now that alcohol and your brain they don't get on particularly well .

Heavy drinking is related to all sorts of brain changes at multiple levels . Some are at the level of neuronal connections . Certain neuronal pathways become artificially strengthened , whilst others weaken At the same time . Because alcohol is a neurotoxin , the brain as a whole suffers , and this can easily be measured from a noticeable decrease in brain mass .

Your neurons literally die off and your brain shrinks . This leads to all sorts of deficits in cognitive and neuropsychological function , including , first and foremost , memory , as well as attention , problem solving , social cognition and more . The bad news is that the neurons that have died are never coming back , even after you stop drinking .

Unlike most of the tissue in the body , your brain can't make new ones to replace them . Remarkably , however , even though you will always be working with a slightly lower number of brain cells , your brain will find its work arounds .

Nobody knows exactly how this happens , but most likely it takes the form of the remaining neurons forming new connections to compensate for the lost ones .

Whatever the case , just a mere few weeks after your last drink , you can expect to start seeing improvements in cognitive functioning , and make no mistake about it .

It will take months , or even a few years , for your cognitive functioning to make a complete recovery to your pre-drinking levels , but the good thing is that you will already get measurable improvement in some donates in under a month .

One study out of Belgium found that two and a half weeks into sobriety , former drinkers had made a recovery in their working memory , with their performance matching that of a control group . At part nine . We've got weight loss , though this is not as certain as some of the other changes that we've discussed .

Chances are by the end of the first month of freedom , you'll also be relatively lighter . There's no mystery in this when you consider that your average drink can have as many as 200 calories .

Not only that , but for reasons that aren't clear , alcohol also stimulates the appetite , and listen , let's be honest here when you're drunk , you're not really going to start craving green salad , are you ? The London study that we mentioned earlier found that one month of abstinence was enough to lower participants' weight by around three and a half pounds .

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