Ready for some math? If sugar is
“empty calories,” and alcohol has
almost twice as many calories per
gram as sugar, then isn’t alcohol
the mother of all empty calories?
It’s got more than enough energy
to mess up your hormones, but
doesn’t provide a lick of valuable
nutrition. Lose-lose.Finally, as a special bonus hormonal
effect, acute and chronic alcohol consumption
have been known to inhibit testosterone
production.
Ouch.
Numerous studies also show—rather
conclusively, in fact—that alcohol directly
promotes intestinal permeability and
overgrowth of gut bacteria, contributing to a
leaky gut and all of the downstream
inflammatory effects. But that’s not the only