Can a damaged liver worsen the effects of alcohol?
Your liver is the primary organ for the breakdown of alcohol in the body. If this organ is damaged it won’t be able to do its job as efficiently and the alcohol will last longer before being broken down for excretion. What does this mean? If you drink, say a can of beer, you won’t get any drunker but you will stay affected by the alcohol for much longer than if your liver was functioning better. Question is: if a person has known liver damage why are they continuing to drink alcohol? Alcohol’s molecular chain make it a toxin to the body which puts any liver under stress. Hence alcoholics will eventually develop scar tissue from alcohol damage = cirrhosis of the liver. A liver already working harder doesn’t need more toxins to further damage it. You can’t live without a liver.
