In a post that has now gone viral on social media platform X, a doctor posted the pictures of the liver of a "weekends only" drinker, leaving the internet shocked. He compares it with the liver of his teetotaller wife.
Alcohol is a poison. Period. Your liver works overtime to process it, and when you binge—even if it’s ‘just on weekends’—you’re overwhelming it. Over time, this leads to fatty liver, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and eventually liver failure. And guess what? By the time you feel the symptoms, it's already too late. This man didn’t just wake up one day with a failing liver. He spent years slowly killing it, one drink at a time, while probably telling himself, 'It’s not that bad.'
Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, famously known as ‘The Liver Doc’, often posts pictures and stories of his patients. He is an avid social media user and also debunks several myths around liver health.
In a recent post, he shared the two pictures and wrote, “Hello. Just wanted to show the inside of the liver of a 32 year old, ‘weekends only’ alcohol-drinking man, and the healthy donor liver of his wife, that he received, that will help him survive to see their little daughter grow up".
In the post, the wife's liver looks healthy, but the drinker's liver is dark and spotty.
Irrespective of popular belief, research has now shown that even a small consumption of alcohol could have a harmful impact on a person's health. There is no safe quantity of alcohol consumption. It impacts not only the liver but other organs like heart and brain as well.
Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, the Indian doctor who shared his post on the effects of alcohol consumption on the liver. (File Photo, X@theliverdr)
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