What Happens to Your Body When You Quit Alcohol: A Timeline

Dara Laine Murray
6 min readSep 5, 2022

Quitting drinking is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. I could write a novel on why this is, but today, I want to focus on the health benefits of sobriety. Giving up alcohol is a wildly underrated health hack that trumps even the most expensive, pure superfood powders and supplements on the market.

When we choose to forgo alcohol, not only are we refraining from poisoning our precious vessels, but we’re able to make better choices, be more mindful, and follow through more consistently. These actions further support a…

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Dara Laine Murray

Multi-passionate sobriety writer on Medium. Day job: Director of Research at a nonprofit. Stories = sober + stats. Editor: https://medium.com/modern-sobriety