How High Blood Pressure Causes Alcohol-Related Embarrassment

Liver damage, injury causing falls, and chronic headaches (more commonly known as the hangover from hell) are not the only side effects from knocking back your favorite tipple.

Some people aren’t affected whilst others face riskier problems. Some people just get silly while others find their tempers getting hotter.

But then there are those that display more obvious physical side effects from alcohol, which researchers at Chungnam National University School of Medicine in South Korea 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 at Chungnam National University School of Medicine conducted a study to see if there might be a possible blood pressure risk involved with alcohol-related flushing. Turns out, there is!

In the study involving more than 1,700 people, researchers found that those who turned red after drinking (any amount of alcohol) had the highest incidences of high blood pressure.

Those who drank the most, or more than 4 drinks per week, were at a much higher risk for alcohol-related high blood pressure.

Doctors encourage those who get a red face after booze to consider phasing out alcohol, as over time the intolerance and high blood pressure could lead to 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…