If you are a daily drinker you may feel a bit worse to start with while your body adjusts to not having alcohol in its system ...

Taking a break from alcohol can lead to immediate and long-term health benefits. Improvements in brain function, liver health, mood, and weight reduction are just a few. Quitting alcohol reduces the ...

While you may get drunk sooner and experience more severe hangovers, there isn't a difference in the basic physiology of day drinking versus night drinking. "Alcohol creates a lot of dysfunction in ...

Short-term effects of alcohol Speech. ... In this case, the region of the brain that alcohol is impairing is the prefrontal cortex, which controls reasoning, judgment, ...

ANALYSIS: Katinka van de Ven and Nicole Lee explain how the body recovers after removing alcohol from your life ...

While there's no reason to believe females aren't subject to alcohol-related brain damage, ... that there "could be sex-related sensitivities in long-term alcohol effects on brain function." ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers investigated the effects of alcohol consumption and short-term abstinence on gut dysbiosis in individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder ...

Here's how alcohol affects a person's body, from a first sip to potential long-term fallout. This Dry January, the US Surgeon General is warning that the cancer risks of drinking rival smoking and ...

And the short- and long-term effects of alcohol on sleep can impact your health in unwanted ways: ... Ian M. Colrain et. al. Alcohol and the Sleeping Brain. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. 2014.