Stop normalizing daily alcohol consumption. Alcohol causes a type of serious liver disease known as cirrhosis, and you may not know about it until it is too late.

The liver serves a wide variety of body functions including removing toxins from your blood, producing bile that helps in food digestion, and storing special vitamins. All these functions are affected in liver disease.

Initially, alcohol causes swelling and inflammation in your liver, or something called hepatitis.

Over time, this liver inflammation (hepatitis) can lead to liver thickening (fibrosis) and then liver scarring (cirrhosis). Cirrhosis is the final phase of alcoholic liver disease. Unfortunately, the damage caused by cirrhosis is NOT REVERSIBLE.

The chances of getting liver disease from alcohol go up the longer you have been drinking and the more alcohol you consume the higher the chances. You do not have to get drunk for the disease to happen.

Stop normalizing daily alcohol consumption.