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The health benefits of quitting alcohol

Alcohol is one substance that when consumed gives you instant happiness but many people when consuming even though they know the repercussions of the drinking habit. Alcohol although medically found to have a few good effects on the body. It has eaten deep into so many people can’t even see themselves not consuming the substance. However Giving up alcohol comes with it’s own benefits too numerous to even mention in just one post.
Giving up alcohol—for even just one month—has been linked by medical experts to cause significant changes in people’s health.
One of the major benefits is the organ called the Liver which is heavily affected by consumption of Alcohol. The consumption of Alcohol affects Liver cells which when they start to die at an increasing rate it can eventually lead to permanent damage of the organ. However, if you stop drinking alcohol the wound caused to the liver will start healing and as a result your Liver can heal as soon few days of stopping the consumption.
Not only can you make serious progress toward increasing your chances of weight loss, it saves work out time by half. Alcohol impedes the effect of exercise on the body, that’s why most professional athletes and exercise experts don’t consume alcohol. Quitting alcohol extends beyond losing weight, it can also include lowering your cancer risk, studies have shown that the risk of cancer is lesser in people that consume alcohol.
Alcohol has overall effect on the heart and quitting the consumption boosts your heart health as it enables your heart to pump more blood. This will ultimately result in to having a better sex life, a study was carried out in Baltimore, Maryland where men that stopped alcohol intake had better sex performances after quitting. It improved their testosterone levels which increased their sex drive.
If you drink alcoholic beverages, you should definitely be interested in knowing how your body will change if you cut out beer, wine, and liquor . Whether it’s for a day, a week, or even a month, it can make a difference.
One advantage of quitting alcohol that a lot of people are not aware of is that you will save a lot of money, Alcohol is relatively expensive! Some people don’t only buy for themselves they also buy for friends and others to show status. If you workout how much you spend in alcohol consumption you will find out that if you use that money for other things, you will rake in better profit than consuming alcohol.
Your skin will ultimately clean up, leaving you better looking. Drinking alcohol will cause frequent acne and increase the chances of premature aging. However, this can easily be cured with abstinence for just a few days.
Alcohol consumption reduces productivity, those hangovers, those mornings where your head is spinning, will reduce your contribution to active work. Alcohol naturally makes you drunk so if you stop drinking it will eliminate hangovers totally and makes you sharper and quicker.

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