Three weeks without a drop of alcohol. Three weeks, in which I was more alert, fitter and more relaxed feel. What exactly is happening in my body?
Many people drink the most in society. The author (right) is no exception
At 5: 30 get up, after a round of sports questions from the lively son also cheerfully answer before the child go to school and I to work. For three weeks, to me this is easier than ever before. Coincidentally, it was the three weeks in which I have completely on alcohol waived.
To a coincidence neither I nor Helmut Karl Seitz, the Director of the centre for alcohol research (CAR) in Heidelberg believe, however. The Professor of Internal medicine and gastroenterology is certain that in these three weeks, already a lot in my body has done.
I jump before the son, who is a proven early risers, almost out of bed, could be related to the fact that I can sleep without alcohol is much better. “Alcohol activated catecholamines, which include adrenaline. This does not come to rest at night properly.”
No alcohol, no complaints
After a week of sleep have returned to a normal rhythm, says Seitz. The physician has repeatedly stressed that we are talking of alcohol-dependent people, but of which, now and again, but definitely drink regularly.
“You are not a chronic drinker,” says Seitz several times to me. That is, the expert seems to be convinced of it, pleased me so much that I let the statement pass without comment. I wasn’t quite so sure.
The abstinence was difficult for me, however, at all difficult. Certainly also because I felt so comfortable. Apart from the sleeping Norma, the blood pressure, at the tap of itself, Seitz says. Alcohol driving the upward pressure, headaches and dizziness are typical symptoms.
Those who abstain from alcohol can enjoy a better digestion. “In the villi of the small intestine proteins that break down the food. These proteins recover relatively quickly,” says Seitz. Without going into further Detail: harmony in the gastroin tinaltrakt makes life quite liveable.
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Not to forget: the liver. For our detoxifying organ of the renunciation of alcohol as a kind of Spa vacation. Because beer, wine, and liquor the risk of gaining fat in the liver. Adiposity was not initially as bad, explained Seitz. However, it is also the first step on the way to the liver hardening, the so-called cirrhosis of the liver.
My liver has always lived a quiet and unremarkable in my Innermost. Changes I could not feel it. “No matter what stage the liver is at, whether it is fat easily or already an advanced connective tissue hardening is present, If you abstain from alcohol, which is always good for the liver. You will recover,” stresses Seitz.
No alcohol is also (k)a solution
I tell them that I broke my fast after three weeks and a few days with a friend and a wine spritzer. Surprisingly, I found the feeling of the slight intoxicated one more uncomfortable than funny. And to sports the next Morning at 5:30 PM is not the only one thinking right.
“The metabolic processes that break down the alcohol, not more for you automatically,” explained to me the alcohol researchers. The metabolism of a trained drinker knows what to do, my metabolism had after the alcohol break, however, bother to remember.
Seitz recommends me for a future wine nights, what I stop myself each Time, like a mantra try: drink plenty of water! Alcohol dehydrates the body, the blood circulation will be worse, the headaches are guaranteed.
Also, I should stick to the recommended amount of alcohol, of course. I don’t know, however, how low this value is. For men not more than a quarter of a litre of wine a day. Women should only drink half of it. That’s not even a glass!
I consider, therefore, whether it is worth it to Drink at all. The next round of alcohol determined is can fast not have to wait long. For now, however, is the weekend. And the dad watching the son.
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