Liver damage, injury-causing falls and chronic headaches are not the only side effects to drinking. Some can be relatively ‘minor’ compared to the more risky problems.

Some people just get silly. Others find their tempers running hotter. But some have outward physical expressions of what doctors now believe are warning signs of alcohol-related high blood pressure.

Whether a person drinks a little or a lot, sometimes it is easy to see if he or she has an intolerance to alcohol. The dead giveaway- a red face.

Doctors have known for a long time that people who get red-faced after drinking even small amounts of alcohol have a difficult time metabolizing a chemical in alcohol called acetaldehyde.

This difficulty is what defines the intolerance. However, there is more going on than just a flushed face.

Doctors in Chungnam National University School of Medicine in South Korea conducted a study to see if there might be a possible blood pressure risk involved with alcohol-related flushing. As it turns out, there is.

In the study involving more than 1,700 people, researchers found that those who flushed after drinking (in any amount) had the highest incidence of hypertension, or high blood pressure. Those who drank the most, or more than 4 drinks per week, were at much higher risk for alcohol-related high blood pressure.

Doctors encourage those who have the red face reaction when drinking to consider phasing out alcohol consumption, as over time the intolerance and high blood pressure could mean dangerous long-term health problems.

But if you have high blood pressure, there are several things you can do: Here is how I dropped my blood pressure down to normal- without changing a thing- with 3 simple exercises that anyone can do…