Your body is full of internal membranes that compartmentalize your organs and allow life-sustaining fluids and minerals to reach them. But they need water to do this and alcohol deprives the membranes of this critical fluid.
Among the first areas that get affected by the consumption of alcohol is that of the membranes. Membranes can be thought of as an envelope to not only protect organs but to allow tiny substances to pass through. For example, the human skin is a membrane that protects the underlying tissues of the human body but it also allows waste products such as perspiration to pass from the internals to the outside. Membranes can be found throughout the body. You will find that even your bones are covered by a membrane that protects them. This includes the bone joints and it makes sense because the joints must stay lubricated. Other organs covered by membranes include the kidneys, heart, lungs, and liver.
A very thin membrane known as the peritoneum wraps the intestines. You will find membranes covering all of the muscles. We call these bundles of muscle fibers fasciculi. You will find that your eyeball is a complex grouping of membranes. In fact, the eyeball is really nothing but membranes. The list of organs covered by membranes continues with the spinal cord and brain. In fact, the spinal cord and brain are covered by three distinct membranes. The first membrane is nearest to the organs covering the complex network of blood vessels. The second membrane has somewhat serum-like characteristics and the outer or third membrane is stronger with its fibrous composition.
The purpose of the membranes is to act as filters protecting organs within the human body. Without the membranes, organs and body structures are unprotected. For example, without membranes, some solid body structures cannot build up. The membranes also act as dividers and keep things in the position that they must hold within the framework of the human body.
And alcohol does not do well for the membrane structures within the human framework. In fact, it wears down membranes and inhibits them from doing their job. All creatures on the earth need food and water for their sustenance. They need food in order to build muscle fiber and this comes in the form of substances that do not filter or settle easily. These same creatures need energy and they get that from food that combusts easily. Water is necessary so that life-sustaining substances can be held in solution. Salt is instrumental in body construction. The arrangement and compartmentalization of the human body is defined internally by its membranes. Keep in mind too that only water and soluble minerals can pass through membranes—colloidal substances cannot. Colloidal substances must be broken down chemically to a water-soluble state in order to pass through membranes.
An example of this is when we eat food that is from animal flesh. After we consume that food, it must be digested so that it becomes soluble and can be absorbed through membranes. Any colloidal substances resulting from animal food eaten gets used in building new structure. Basically when this absorption process is complete, it goes through another digestive process that converts it into soluble substances that can be disposed of through dialysis (a process through the membranes), into the bloodstream, and passed through excrement or urine.
As one can see, the membranes are very critical to the sustenance of animal life and the building of the structure of the animal body. So critical are these membranes that if they get into a state where they are too porous, all of the critical colloidal fluids are released (like the albumen in the blood) and the body will die. It is analogous to the body bleeding to death slowly. And just as damaging is when these same membranes become clogged with foreign matter to the point where they no longer allow critical fluids to pass. This is known as a failure in a dialysis and the prolonging of such will result in fluids building up in an internal cavity or constriction of flow within the area enclosed by the membrane. Sometimes the membranes are not kept lubricated because of the constriction of fluids and they get dangerously dry. The latter is typically the effect of aging on many of the membranes. The shrinkage and dryness of membranes in old age results in such conditions as dimming in the eyesight, deafness, and feebleness.
So what part does alcohol consumption play in all of this? Alcohol distorts and alters the functions of the membranes. Alcohol can contribute to them shrinking and cause that dangerous thickening which causes clogging. The membranes require water constantly in order to keep them moistened and in a condition that allows fluids to pass. Their lubrication by water also allows them to work quickly which is essential to so many body functions. The problem with alcohol is that it deprives these membranes from the water they need. This also interferes with their ability to extract critical mineral and salts from the bloodstream. The result of this deprivation of water means that some membranes will contract on the organ they service resulting in shrinkage of it.
To sum it up, prolonged consumption of alcohol causes damage to the membranes because it deprives them of water. The body’s structures begin to deteriorate because of shrinkage of membranes around internal organs. If this condition is not reversed by reducing intake of alcohol it can become fatal.
source:- Medicalneeds
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