Sarah Wakeman

So obesity.

Food does.

Yeah, food.

So your liver is very involved in glucose metabolism.

So our diet and our body weight impact our liver health.

And the other medications, so acetaminophen or Tylenol, which is a very common over-the-counter pain reliever, above a certain threshold can cause...

serious liver damage.

So sometimes we'll see cases where someone didn't realize that like their cold medicine plus the Tylenol they were taking both had that ingredient and then they go out and drink heavily and that kind of combination effect can cause liver damage.

So again, it varies person to person.

For liver damage, it does tend to be the moderate to higher amounts that cause damage.

One thing is that having these big surges, like these massive binge episodes, is probably more harmful than drinking at a moderate level for a long period of time.

Those big surges cause a big buildup of that toxic byproduct that your body has to clear.

And so if you have several years of

binge drinking heavily, that actually probably is going to cause more damage than a longer period of time of just drinking above the risk limit.

So really trying to minimize and avoid those very heavy drinking episodes is incredibly important.

And then keeping it to those low risk guidelines, which we just learned are kind of eye opening and how low risk they are is going to reduce the risk of liver damage.

No, I mean, alcohol has effects across our body.

So many parts of the body can be affected by alcohol.

So kind of starting from the top, your brain.

And we can look at this with pictures, like an MRI.