Scientists have now discovered how alcohol can switch off an immune "alarm system" in the gut, allowing bad bacteria to escape their natural habitat to flood into the liver, rapidly causing ...

For decades, we have heard that excessive drinking creates liver disease that is mostly irreversible. However, the exact mechanisms through which alcohol accelerates liver damage remained unclear to ...

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Alcohol itself can directly damage liver cells. Now researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report evidence that alcohol is also harmful to the liver for a second reason ...