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20 Ways Quitting Alcohol Improves Your Health.
Here's the harsh truth.
Alcohol doesn't just damage yourliver, it shrinks your brain, it
weakens your bones, and itsilently raises your risk of
cancer.
But the good news?
The moment that you quit, yourbody starts to fight back.
In today's video, I'll walk youthrough 20 powerful health

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benefits of quitting alcohol.
You'll see which organs bounceback in weeks, which systems
take longer to recover, and whyevery day that you stay sober
compounds into a healthier,longer life.
Stick with me because some ofthese will absolutely shock you.
And when we get to the finalbenefit, you'll see the one
hidden reason why quittingalcohol might actually add

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decades to your life.
Something almost nobody talksabout.
So why exactly should you listento me?
Well, my name is Leon Sylvester.
I'm the founder ofSoberClear.com, which is a
coaching company that helpsbusiness people and
professionals get control oftheir drinking sometimes in as
little as 24 hours.
We have a new scientificallyvalidated approach, and you can

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I myself haven't drank alcoholfor seven years after almost a
decade of struggle, and I'veseen firsthand how dramatically
life can change on the otherside.
So when I tell you these 20health benefits are real, it's
not just theory, it's experiencebacked by evidence.

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Number one, liver regeneration.
Out of all of our organs, theone that alcohol damages the
most, along with the brain, isthe liver.
The liver is our body's detoxcenter.
It's where toxins, includingethanol, are sent to be broken
down and eventually expelledfrom the body.
This process is very harmful asit generates a highly toxic
metabolite called acetaldehyde,as well as other reactive

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molecules, which we will discussin detail later.
See, most moderate drinkers andnearly all heavy drinkers
develop fatty liver, a conditionwhere the liver cells accumulate
fat, leading to the entire liverswelling up.
While it has no overt symptoms,fatty liver can set the stage
for more serious damage,including hepatitis and
cirrhosis.

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Thankfully, these are much morerare than fatty liver.
Remarkably, if you haven't yetprogressed to hepatitis or
cirrhosis, only a few days ofsobriety is all your liver needs
to start healing.
After only three weeks, yourfatty liver will have basically
reversed.
At that point, your liver willappear essentially normal on an
ultrasound and biopsy.

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Blood markers of liver injury,notably the enzymes ALT and AST,
will also be back to baseline atthe one-month mark.
All this without any otherlifestyle changes and free of
medications.
It's not a bad deal if you askme.
Two, gastrointestinalfunctioning restored.
Another area that takes heavydamage is your gastrointestinal

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tract.
Alcohol's primary target is themucosa that line your GI tract,
starting from the mouth all theway to your anus.
This damage, particularly in thesmall intestine, allows
pathogens to enter circulation.
From there, they make their wayto the liver, further inflaming
it.
This is what we actually callleaky gut syndrome.
This syndrome can also causesystemic inflammation beyond the

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liver, leading to problems likebrain fog, fatigue, autoimmune
disorders, and foodsensitivities.
Alcohol also impairs the smallintestine from properly
absorbing nutrients.
This contributes to themalnutrition that is typical of
heavy drinkers and almostuniversal in late-stage
alcoholics.
It also upsets the naturalbalance of our so-called gut

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microbiota.
These are the countlessmicroorganisms that live in our
intestines and are key todigestion.
Fortunately, like the liver, therecovery happens remarkably
fast.
Studies show that three weeks ofabstinence can fully restore the
gut barrier, reducing the amountof harmful toxins entering the
bloodstream and easinginflammation.

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The gut microbiota recovery willtake slightly longer, at least a
month following sobriety.
This improvement in yourgastrointestinal functioning
will have a very beneficialconsequence in terms of reducing
inflammation, a topic that we'llreturn to later.
3.
The pancreas recovers.
Your pancreas is a small organhidden deep in your abdomen
behind the stomach, weighingabout as much as an apple and

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stretching around 15centimeters, most people aren't
even aware of its existenceuntil its decline demands their
attention, that is.
The pancreas has two criticalfunctions.
First, it makes enzymes that arecritical to digestion, breaking
down the various proteins, fats,and carbohydrates from food.
Secondly, it regulates bloodsugar levels by producing the

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hormone insulin.
When blood sugar levels get toohigh, insulin signals to the
cells that they need to increaseits absorption, thereby lowering
the circulating levels in theblood.
While the liver is the primaryorgan responsible for processing
alcohol, the pancreas alsocontributes.
And over the years, this processcan lead to a toxic accumulation

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of certain enzymes called fattyacid ethylester syntheses, or
FAEE.
Alcohol also triggers oxidativestress in the pancreas,
something that we'll coverlater.
Now, unlike other organs, thepancreas doesn't generally give
subtle warning signs.
When it becomes inflamed, acondition is triggered called
pancreatitis.
You get abrupt and severeabdominal pain, nausea and

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vomiting, and it usuallyrequires hospitalization.
Around 70% of pancreatitis casesare alcohol related.
Once it sets in, the ball isreally in your court.
You can continue drinking anddevelop chronic pancreatitis,
which means a lifetime of painand possibly premature death, or
you can stop and hope that thepancreatitis won't return.

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Because unfortunately, even withabstinence, pancreatitis doesn't
always fully resolve.
Now, if you're like mostdrinkers, chances are that you
probably haven't developed thishorrible disease yet.
In which case, your pancreaswill thank you for your decision
to stop drinking.
Over time, the harmful buildupof substances that stress your
pancreas, including FAEEsyntheses, will clear, allowing

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it to recover.
Number four, the immune systemstrengthens.
Doctors first noticed over twocenturies ago that drinkers are
more prone to infections.
These include pneumonia,influenza, tuberculosis, HIV,
viral hepatitis, and bacterialmeningitis.
Not only are drinkers morelikely to get sick, but they
also tend to have worseoutcomes.

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Their hospitalizations arelonger, they have more
complications, recovery is oftenincomplete, and death is more
common.
This happens because alcoholdevastates the immune system in
various ways.
As we saw, it damages themucosal barriers lining our gut
and respiratory tract, making iteasier for harmful organisms to
enter the bloodstream.

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Alcohol also impacts the whiteblood cells.
These are our body's first lineof defense against infection and
impairs our immune system'sability to fight off things like
cancer cells, something thatwe'll discuss in a moment.
Within just a few weeks ofquitting alcohol, your immune
system will significantlyimprove, largely due to better
gut function.
You can further support it bycleaning up your diet, engaging

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in moderate exercise, managingyour stress levels, and
prioritizing your sleep.
Number five, hypertensionresolves.
Elevated blood pressure, alsocalled hypertension, is very
common among heavy drinkers.
It's actually known as thesilent killer.
Silent because it has no overtsymptoms, and killer because
it's a leading cause ofpremature death due to

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complications like heart attack,stroke, and aneurysms.
Even if it doesn't kill yououtright, hypertension can cause
serious vision problems, sexualdysfunction, and kidney damage.
It's no joke.
While scientists aren't sureexactly how alcohol causes
hypertension, the causalrelationship is not in question.
The more you drink, especiallyif you exceed just three drinks

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a day, the higher your risk ofhypertension.
Remarkably, just a few weeks ofabstinence are enough for
hypertension to resolve.
This happens without medicationsor any other kind of
intervention.
By the three to four week mark,barring other contributing
factors, your hypertension willhave reversed and your blood
pressure will return to thenormal range.

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6.
The heart beats better.
Alcohol can also affect how yourheart beats.
There are two aspects to this.
First, it will make your heartbeat faster, something you can
easily verify with a fitnesswatch that tracks your resting
heart rate.
This is a sign that yourcardiovascular system is working
less efficiently.
Your heart has to pump more todeliver the same amount of

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blood.
Remarkably, just a few daysafter quitting, your resting
heart rate may drop by 5 to 10beats per minute, sometimes even
more.
If you don't already have afitness tracker, I do strongly
encourage you to invest in one,especially if you're planning to
quit drinking.
Just seeing your resting heartrate drop in real time is proof
enough of alcohol's burden onyour health and just how much

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better off you are without it.
Alcohol not only speeds up yourheart, but can also make it beat
irregularly.
These alcohol-relatedarrhythmias often appear in
acute form after a few days ofheavy drinking.
They typically resolve after afew days of abstinence.
But if the drinking continues,the arrhythmia can become
chronic, making it much harderto reverse.
It goes without saying that ifyou haven't already developed an

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irregular heartbeat, stoppingdrinking right now is your best
option.
Remember that prevention todayis far easier than trying to
reverse damage in the future.
Number seven, blood sugarlowers.
Alcohol is filled with emptycalories and can cause
fluctuations in blood sugarlevels.
When you stop drinking alcohol,your liver, no longer busy

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processing alcohol, can resumeits normal role of regulating
blood sugar levels.
As a result, your body regulatesblood sugar more efficiently,
helping stabilize your energylevels during the day.
A study with social drinkers whostopped drinking for five weeks
found a remarkable 23% drop inblood glucose levels.
These fell from an average of5.1 to 4.3 millimoles per liter.

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The normal range is between 3.9and 5.6.
These findings suggest that thebody has become more sensitive
to insulin, the hormone thatregulates blood sugar levels.
As your blood sugar stabilizes,you might notice fewer cravings
for sugary snacks and a renewedappetite for healthier foods.
We'll revisit this topic later.
8.
Cortisol homeostasis restored.

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Alcohol disrupts the balance ofstress hormones, especially
cortisol.
Cortisol is essential for humansurvival.
It helps mobilize energyreserves, adapt to stress, and
maintain homeostasis duringchallenging times.
It also regulates metabolism andhas anti-inflammatory
properties.
But when cortisol levels becomechronically elevated, our health

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begins to suffer.
If you think of your body as acomplex machine with millions of
moving parts, excess cortisolcauses unnecessary wear and
tear.
That is exactly what happens toheavy drinkers who tend to have
chronically high cortisollevels.
This leads to a range of healthproblems, including poor sleep,
weight gain, mood changes,fatigue, and digestive issues.

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Unfortunately, when you stopdrinking, cortisol levels spike
even higher and remain elevatedfor several weeks.
This partly explains why thefirst weeks of abstinence can be
so challenging.
If you push through, however,your cortisol levels gradually
return to normal.
This leads to improved sleep,mood, and overall well-being.
Your energy levels stabilize andyour body starts to repair and

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regenerate, lowering your riskof stress-related health
problems.
9.
Healthy appetite and eatingpatterns return.
We touched on this earlier whendiscussing blood sugar, but
alcohol is very calorie dense.
It's basically unique amongtoxins in this respect.
It gives you 7.1 calories pergram, which is on the high end
for normal food, let alone atoxin.

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To give you an idea, an applehas half a calorie per gram,
broccoli has 0.3 calories, andcheddar cheese has four.
You have to look to extremelyrich foods like butter or olive
oil to match alcohol's caloriedensity.
The problem is that while ourbody extracts energy from
ethanol in booze, it doesn'tprocess it like normal food.
And our brain doesn't perceiveit as normal food either,

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because it isn't.
It's alcohol.
The key difference is thatunlike real food, we don't
compensate for the calories fromethanol.
In other words, we get thecalories from booze and then we
eat food as normal, as if we hadnever drank in the first place.
Not only are the calories notcompensated, but alcohol is
actually an appetite stimulant.
So when you drink before orduring a meal, you get a triple

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whammy.
A, the empty calories from thebooze, B, your appetite not
compensating for these calories,and C your appetite actually
increasing, and it's usually forunhealthy food.
Not only that, but years ofdrinking can condition someone
to associate drinking witheating, meaning that the drink
can then become a trigger foreating in and of itself.

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Stopping drinking alcohol willimprove your eating patterns so
that you consume less caloriesoverall, and these calories will
generally be healthier.
You will naturally start eatingsmaller, healthier portions and
probably cut down on bingeeating and junk food.
Number 10.
Weight loss.
A pleasant consequence of all ofthis is that you will lose
weight.
Simply quitting alcohol withoutany other dietary changes or

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additional exercise can loweryour weight by 1 to 2 kilos in
the first month, sometimes more.
The longer that you stay sober,the more weight that will come
off.
Beyond looking and feelingbetter, the loss weight will
also translate to improvedmetabolic markers, such as
better insulin sensitivity,lower blood sugar levels,
reduced blood pressure, and ahealthier cholesterol profile.

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All this reduces your risk ofchronic diseases, including
heart disease, diabetes, andcancer.
11.
Sleep quality restored.
People have used alcohol as asleeping aid for thousands of
years.
This is because alcohol shortensthe time it takes to fall
asleep.
Normally, this takes 10 to 20minutes, but alcohol can cut it
in half or more.
However, there's a pretty bigcatch.

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While this is an important partof what we call a good night's
sleep, it's just one piece ofthe puzzle.
Every night we go through aseries of sleep cycles, which
last around 90 minutes each.
Each cycle begins with lightsleep, moves into deep sleep,
and ends with REM sleep, thestage where we dream.
These stages always occur in thesame order, but their duration
shifts as the night progresses.

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During the first half of thenight, sleep cycles favor deep
sleep over light and REM sleep.
But as the night progresses,light and REM sleep become
longer and deep sleep shortens.
This is why we typically haveour longest and most vivid
dreams just before we wake up.
Alcohol disrupts the sleep cycleby increasing deep sleep early
on at the expense of REM andlight sleep.

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Early in the night, this workswell, as the deep sleep allows
us to sleep soundly.
The problem begins during thesecond half of the night, once
alcohol effects start to wearoff.
At that point, suppressed REMand light sleep rebound.
This means the person will wakeup easier and will have more
trouble falling back asleepevery time.
Another problem is that alcoholis a diuretic.

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In other words, it increases theproduction of urine.
This leads to frequent bathroomtrips, further disrupting our
sleep.
All things considered, it's nosurprise that insomnia and sleep
problems in general are verycommon among heavy drinkers.
And thankfully, here, recoverywill be swift.
During the first week ofabstinence, you might experience
restlessness and sleepdisturbances, but things settle

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quickly after that.
If you're like most, at the 4-5week mark, your sleep should be
back to your pre-drinking days.
12.
Reduced inflammation.
Inflammation is your body'snatural response to health
challenges like infections,injuries, or toxins.
When your body detects aproblem, it sends white blood
cells and signaling moleculeslike cytokines and
prostaglandins to the affectedarea.

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This triggers the classicsymptoms of inflammation,
including swelling, redness, andpain.
Although unpleasant, these aresigns that the body is working
to repair itself.
The problems begin when theinflammatory response becomes
chronic.
Instead of shutting down afterthe threat is gone, the body
stays in a constant state ofalert, gradually damaging
healthy tissues.
Where it was once the solution,inflammation now becomes the

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problem, leading to problemslike cardiovascular disease,
cancer, and autoimmunedisorders.
As you might have guessed, boozeis highly inflammatory.
It's actually one of the leadinglifestyle factors linked to
chronic inflammation, alongsidea poor diet, lack of physical
activity, smoking, and stress.
The inflammation affects theentire body, as evidenced by

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elevated levels of inflammatoryproteins in the blood.
Having said that, certain organsare particularly affected,
notably the brain, liver,pancreas, and heart.
Long-term inflammation in any ofthese organs can lead to
debilitating chronic illness andeven death.
The digestive system can becomechronically inflamed,
potentially causing leaky gutsyndrome, autoimmunity, and

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cancer.
To support your body's recoveryfrom inflammation, when you stop
drinking, you can cut out badfoods like refined
carbohydrates, packaged snacks,and sugary beverages.
You'll also want to increaseyour consumption of
anti-inflammatory foods likeberries, green vegetables, and
fatty fish.
You can also considerincorporating turmeric into your
diet.
This is a highlyanti-inflammatory spice that you

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can add to various foods.
13.
Lower oxidative stress.
As part of their normalmetabolic activities, our cells
naturally produce harmfulmolecules called free radicals.
Free radicals are unstablemolecules that can damage cells
by destabilizing proteins, DNA,and other cellular components.
To counteract free radicals, ourbody uses antioxidants.

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These are molecules that canstabilize free radicals without
becoming unstable themselves.
Most antioxidants come fromfood, but we also make some
internally.
When the levels of free radicalsrise to the point where we can
no longer effectively neutralizethem, our body is said to be in
a condition of oxidative stress.
This can lead to chronicinflammation and contribute to

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the development of diseases likeheart disease, diabetes, and
neurodegenerative disorders.
The longer you stay in oxidativestress, the more you accelerate
aging and impair the body'snatural repair mechanisms, and
the more your health willsuffer.
Alcohol significantly raisesoxidative stress.
It does this by generating freeradicals during its metabolism,

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as well as depleting ourantioxidants.
Along with smoking, a poor diet,chronic stress, exposure to
pollution and chemicals, it'sactually one of the most common,
modifiable lifestyle factors foroxidative stress.
Inflammation and oxidativestress are the twin pillars of
systemic alcohol damage.
They feed into each other toslowly but steadily erode your

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health.
You can think of oxidativestress as the immediate
consequence of ethanol'smetabolism, the initial insult,
which then gradually triggersthe inflammation.
The inflammation then triggersmore oxidative stress, which
feeds back into the inflammationand so on and so forth, creating
a vicious cycle of damage.
Over time, the inflammationbecomes the central driving

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factor in tissue damage anddisease progression.
14.
Healthier skin.
The reduction in oxidativestress after you stop drinking
can noticeably improve your skinhealth.
Researchers found that aftersmoking and sun exposure,
alcohol consumption is one ofthe major lifestyle factors that
drive facial aging.
Through studying geneticallyidentical twins, as well as

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large-scale surveys, scientistshave pinpointed alcohol's
effects on the face withastonishing precision.
In the early stages, the cheekslose volume and the areas under
the eyes become puffier.
As the person keeps on drinking,the damage spreads, leading to
forehead lines, crows' feet, andvisible blood vessels in the
face.
Alcohol also increases the riskof an inflammatory skin

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condition called rosacea, whichprimarily affects the face.
By stopping drinking alcohol,you reduce the oxidative stress
on your skin and slow down theaging process.
Skin damage is notoriouslydifficult to reverse, and the
results will vary widely fromone person to the next.
But many former drinkers reportthat their complexion becomes
healthier looking and their skinregains some of its former glow.

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Having said that, I want toemphasize once again that
preventing skin damage isinfinitely easier than reversing
it.
So, stopping drinking can't comesoon enough for your skin.
15.
The bones strengthen.
A little known secret of boozeis just how severely it can
weaken bones.
Doctors first realized somethingwas off when they noticed heavy
drinkers turning up to emergencyvisits, and they were showing up

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with multiple fractures.
These fractures often occurredin the ribs and went unnoticed
by the patients for very longtimes.
See, bones are constantlyrenewing themselves, breaking
down old tissue in a processcalled resorption while forming
new tissue through boneformation.
This dynamic process keeps ourskeletons healthy and resilient
throughout life.
We now know that alcohol weakensbone density by disrupting the

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bone's natural balance.
So alcohol inhibits the cellsthat create new bone, called
osteoblasts, whilesimultaneously leading to more
aggressive resorption.
As a result, bone mass andstrength decline.
Fortunately, osteoblasts recoverrapidly after sobriety.
After three weeks, osteocalcinlevels, a key marker of bone
formation, return to those ofnon-drinkers.

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A few months after your finaldrink, your bone mass and
strength will have rebounded,even if you were a very heavy
drinker.
And by then, your risk offractures will have
significantly decreased.
16.
Fertility improves.
If you're unsuccessfully tryingto have children, one of the
first things that your doctorwill recommend is you cut out
alcohol.
It's one of the easiest,quickest, and most effective

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ways to boost your fertility.
In men, alcohol lowerstestosterone and damages cells
in the testicles that supportsperm development.
Over time, this means fewer andless mobile sperm cells.
The hormonal changes can alsocontribute to sexual
dysfunction, like loss of libidoand erectile dysfunction.
In women, alcohol disrupts thebalance of hormones that

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regulate the menstrual cycle andovulation.
This can lead to irregularperiods or no periods at all, as
well as poor egg quality.
The speed and extent of thefertility improvements will vary
from person to person andobviously depend on the degree
of damage.
As a general rule, a minimum oftwo to three menstrual cycles
are necessary for women to seeimprovements.

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It's a similar time scale formen, since sperm takes around
three months to fully mature.
17.
Brain volume recovers.
One of the most terrifyingeffects of alcohol is how
mercilessly it attacks yourbrain, killing off countless
cells.
And it also shrinks the entirebrain in the process.
By the time of their death,heavy drinkers' brains weigh
about an ounce less compared tonon-drinkers.

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Now this translates to countlessbrain cells that have died over
the person's drinking career.
Scientists have given thisphenomenon various names,
including brain atrophy, brainshrinkage, and brain aging.
While the entire brain isaffected, certain parts are hit
particularly hard.
These include the hippocampus,which is critical in the
formation of new memories, aswell as the prefrontal cortex,

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which is involved in executivefunctioning.
Executive function is a rathercomplex ability that encompasses
aspects of decision making andimpulse control.
On paper, the shrinkage shouldbe irreversible, since brain
cells are generally notreplaced.
This sets them apart from mostother cells in our body.
Remarkably, however, our brainsfind a way to recover its loss

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volume following abstinence.
This is very likely a result ofthe remaining brain cells
multiplying their connections tocompensate for the dead ones.
This recovery can take placeremarkably fast, especially
during the first few weeks ofabstinence, and then slower over
the following months.
By the one-year mark, your brainmass will largely return to its
pre-drinking days.
18.

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Cognitive function rebounds.
As the brain shrinks, yourcognitive abilities decline.
Compared to the generalpopulation, heavy drinkers show
significant impairments in moreor less every aspect of
cognitive functioning.
We already saw how certain brainregions are particularly
affected, especially thoserelated to memory and executive
functioning.
But because the damage is spreadacross the entire brain,

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virtually all cognitivefunctions are affected.
So the speed with which youprocess information, your social
and verbal skills, the abilityto emphasize with other people
and adopt their perspective,your visual spatial abilities,
these are all impaired to somedegree.
At the same time, yourmetacognition, namely your
awareness and understanding ofyour own thought processes, is

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impaired as well.
This actually means that youwill not generally be aware of
just how much alcohol isdamaging your cognitive
faculties.
Pretty scary.
The improvement in cognitivefunctioning following abstinence
will mirror that of your brainvolume recovery.
Faster at first and then slowerlater on.
At the one year mark, when yourbrain volume has mostly
recovered, your cognitivefunctions will largely be back

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to their natural baseline,though some lingering deficits
may persist for years.
19.
Your cancer risk reduces.
So alcohol increases your riskof at least seven types of
cancer.
These are in the mouth, throat,voice box, esophagus, colon,
rectum, liver, as well as breastin women.
In the US alone, there are morethan 520,000 alcohol-related

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cancers estimated every year,with an estimated 20,000 adults
dying.
The large majority of thesecancers are in people over the
age of 50.
Cutting out alcohol will loweryour risk of developing cancer,
but the decrease will be gradualand the timescales will vary
depending on the site.
For example, the risk of livercancer is believed to fall by

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6-7% a year, which means morethan 20 years of abstinence are
required for the risk toresemble that of someone who
never drank.
Number 20 is a longer lifeexpectancy.
See, all of this leads up to themost important way quitting
alcohol will improve yourhealth.
You will live longer.
People don't generallyunderstand exactly how deadly

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alcohol is.
Sure, many of us have a heavydrinking relative or
acquaintance who died from liverfailure.
And on the news, there arealways those horrific DUI
accidents and deaths and so on.
But we generally give alcohol apass when it comes to mortality.
Unlike, say, tobacco.
But when you look at the coldhard numbers, you start to get
an idea of the carnage, and it'sabsolutely mind-blowing.

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According to the Centers forDisease Control, in the US from
2011 to 2015, alcohol wasresponsible for an average of
93,000 deaths annually.
This translates to 255 deathsdaily.
And shockingly, each of thesepeople lost on average 29 years
from their expected lifespan.
So they went 29 years beforetheir time on average.

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For comparison, those who diefrom tobacco lose only 10 years
of their life.
Just let that sink in for amoment.
Cigarettes, 10 years lost.
Alcohol, nearly three timesthat.
Now, it is true that there aresome types of alcohol-related
deaths where even if you quittoday, you're not off the hook
yet.
Cancer being the main one.
As we just saw, depending on thebody site, it can take years or

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even decades for the risk toresemble that of another
drinker.
I just want to be completelystraight with you here.
On the other hand, there areother causes of death where your
risk drops to that of thegeneral population from day one.
For example, accidents,poisonings, and homicides.
Then there are variousalcohol-related diseases, which
if you haven't yet developed,you can prevent with a very high
degree of certainty.

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For example, hepatitis,pancreatitis, dementia, or
alcohol cardiomyopathy.
If you're still drinking andhaven't developed these, then
quitting today makes it verylikely that you'll enjoy the
rest of your life without everhaving to worry about them
again.
And if you click the video onthe screen now, I'm going to
show you how to stop drinkingalcohol with a totally new
method.