Train Your Brain to Stay Away from Booze!

During this global pandemic, people have been consuming alcohol more than before, putting themselves in bigger risks which will affect their body and brain big time. Some of them will realize the risks and will seek treatment for their drinking problem but most of the consumers won’t even realize.

Here, we have listed out some information on how alcohol impacts the brain and how you can control and train your brain to stay away from booze. Check it out!    

How Alcohol Impacts the Brain?

• People who have been consuming alcohol for long periods of time run the risk of developing serious and persistent changes in the brain area.
• Long term drinking can produce detectable impairments in our memory. 
• Drinking can damage the liver. It is the organ chiefly responsible for breaking down alcohol into harmless byproducts and clearing it from the body. 
• Alcohol affects new brain cells
• Once the blood alcohol level reaches beyond 0.05 blood alcohol content, blood and body tissue begin to absorb the extra alcohol, and euphoria turns to depression. This is highly risky.
• Heavy, long – term drinking can damage heart muscles and nerve damage

How to Train Your Brain to Give up Alcohol and Stay Away from Booze

If you want to change a behavior like an alcohol problem, you should use your conscious brain to think about the risks and benefits of quitting alcohol. Stopping alcohol will improve your sleeping time and will help you be sharper in the mornings.

Continuous talk to yourself by using your conscious brain and tell yourself the disadvantages of drinking. There will be long term side effects if we continue to drink, like the unwanted calories, the cost, and the risk of harm to our physical or mental health.

Several parts of the brain and body are affected when you drink. In the brain the frontal lobes, which are involved in evaluating choices and making decisions, become more and more suppressed with the more alcohol you consume.

These are the reasons why alcohol addicts have problems with shivering, over-sharing, losing control of emotions, ending up fighting, and overeating in small situations.