Alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of several cancers. Potential mechanisms include altered oestrogen metabolism. Parent oestrogens metabolise into alternate pathways of ...

But the bad news is, once alcohol is in your bloodstream there is nothing you can do to speed up alcohol metabolism. As for ...

Exposure to alcohol during the first weeks of embryonic development changes gene activity and cellular metabolism. In ...

Urine tests can detect alcohol metabolites in your system long after you’ve had your last drink. When your body processes alcohol, it produces alcohol metabolites. These metabolites stick around ...

Urine tests can detect alcohol long after you’ve had your last drink by testing for traces of alcohol metabolites. The average urine test can detect alcohol up to 12 hours after drinking.

Consuming moldy food, drinking alcohol, and reusing fried oil can place undue stress on the liver’s detoxification process, ...

Among very heavy drinkers, alcohol metabolism and the resulting inflammation may even contribute to serious brain damage, possibly including shrinkage of the brain or alcohol-induced dementia, ...

“An alcohol urine test is one way of measuring the presence of alcohol in a person’s system,” said Seitz. “There are three types. Two of them involve measuring the alcohol metabolites ...