What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health

Now is a good time to stop and summarise where we are. Essentially, alcohol provides us with a feeling of relaxation. However, the brain and nervous system reacts to this by releasing stimulants and becoming more sensitive, with the result that when the alcohol wears off we are more anxious and unrelaxed than we were before we took the drink. So we

trivial. In an ideal world, we would all have healthy stress-coping mechanisms and drink minimally, having one to two drinks per week at most—but we also aren’t living stress-free existences, frolicking through the woods and picking berries all day either.