Steven Bartlett
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And then what are the stats saying in terms of my cancer risk profile?
And then if I have other sort of, do they call them comorbidities?
So other illnesses, other diseases in my body, my probability is going to go up further if I'm obese, if I'm overweight, etc.
How does that work?
What's going on in the body then?
If I drink alcohol, how is that leading to cancer?
You referenced it slightly there, but I want to make sure I'm super clear in my brain as to what the knock-on effects are and how that ends up as cancer.
Because your body sees ethanol as poison.
So I also found this graph, which shows for anyone that can't see what we're describing at the moment, it shows the acceleration in liver disease, death rates and general liver disease compared to other parts of the body.
Other organs in the body, I believe it shows.
What impact does alcohol have on the liver?
And we have our little mannequin here of the human body.
Where is the liver?
It's big.
It almost looks like it's as big as the lung, as one lung.
Really?
So I've got a bunch of questions around the liver.
Does that mean that my liver can take a bit of a beating before there's any real problems?
Should I, you know, someone like me, I don't drink alcohol.
I'm not engaging in anything too bad.