"Some of the patients that I look after do Dry January and then on 1 February they go out on a big binge... this is really harmful, because suddenly you're drinking excessively, causing harm to your liver and undoing all the good of not drinking in January."
"It's not a bad thing to do [January detox], because it proves social life and everything else can go on without alcohol. And it reduces people's overall alcohol intake, so that's a good thing in terms of general health."
"Your liver is a huge factory in your body, with hundreds of production lines that are involved in more than 500 key metabolic processes. When we eat a meal, our food is digested in our guts, then all those nutrients pass directly into the liver for processing."
"The two biggest causes of liver disease are related to weight gain or alcohol... Damaging the liver is known as cirrhosis, which can be caused by anything that injures the liver."
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