Alcohol kills 2.5M people per year

Generally, symptoms of alcoholic liver disease include abdominal pain and tenderness, dry mouth and increased thirst, fatigue, jaundice (which is yellowing of the skin), loss of appetite, and nausea. Your skin may look abnormally dark or light. Your feet or hands may look red.

Reality: Even in heavy drinkers, alcohol consumption doesn't kill brain cells. It does, however, damage the ends of neurons, called dendrites, which makes it difficult for neurons to relay messages to one another.

Some signs your liver may be struggling are:

• Fatigue and tiredness. ...
• Nausea (feeling sick). ...
• Pale stools. ...
• Yellow skin or eyes (jaundice). ...
• Spider naevi (small spider-shaped arteries that appear in clusters on the skin). ...
• Bruising easily. ...
• Reddened palms (palmar erythema). ...
• Dark urine