Sarah Wakeman

So the brain, for sure.

The next is the mouth and your esophagus.

So obviously, you're drinking alcohol.

It's bathing your mouth.

It's bathing your esophagus and your stomach.

So we do see an increase in cancer, like we talked about, and that's accelerated by smoking.

But we also see benign but annoying and problematic health conditions, most notably acid reflux, so heartburn.

So if you notice, like, I'm always having heartburn.

I'm having to pop all these antacids and take this medicine.

You might want to think, like, how much am I drinking?

Is that contributing to my heartburn?

So that's a very common thing.

The heart is affected by alcohol.

So, you know, the heart is an organ where at low risk levels, there doesn't seem to be harm from alcohol.

But once you get into the moderate and high, we see harms and the harms can be

A couple folds.

One is something called atrial fibrillation, which is basically where your heart starts beating really irregularly.

So in your heart, there's four chambers, the two chambers at the top.

So this is really showing the ventricles and the atrium.

So there's two chambers that blood flows through.