“Conditionally safe” doses of alcohol: how not to harm the liver

Paradoxically, for some reason, patients try to look perfect in the eyes of the doctor. And lie about exactly what is important for proper treatment: “NO! No, doctor, I just got a little carried away.”

Your liver doesn’t care whether you told the doctor the truth or lied. It doesn’t care what you think, as if the previous stack, glass, glass, glass, glass, glass, kiddush glass and shot drink “doesn’t count.” The liver simply needs to process and remove from the body the ton of ethanol you loaded it with.

On holidays, which pleasantly stand out from a series of gray everyday life, you can afford to take a break from the work bustle, relax and have fun. At such moments, you can rarely do without the faithful companions of any fun - champagne, wine and stronger drinks. However, feeling lightness, joy and fleeting delight after a few glasses, we hardly think about how harmful alcohol is to a person.

We remember and store the doses of alcohol that are called “conditionally safe” so as not to mislead the doctor and not provoke him into a long and tedious diagnostic search. WHO experts have developed the following approximate doses that are considered acceptable for an adult (a healthy man of average build) per day:

• 30–60 ml of vodka, cognac or other strong drink;
• 150–200 ml of dessert, fortified wine or port wine;
• 200–300 ml of champagne, red or white dry wine;
• 450–700 ml of light beer.

And this is provided that two days a week a person will not drink a drop of alcohol. The permissible doses for women are half as small. However, it is necessary to understand that all this is quite conditional. There are no identical people in the world, therefore there are neither exact nor absolutely safe doses of alcohol. It is always necessary to take into account a person's age, state of health, gender, weight, tolerance to alcohol.

PS It is worth taking care of a good snack for the Bacchus potion, which will protect the body and liver. What to choose, wine, vodka or cognac, is an individual wish of each of us. The most important thing is that the dose of the drink should be the smallest, only in this case it will not be able to harm your body.