Category Archives: Sober living

Alcohol and Autoimmune Disease: What You Need to Know

It’s not just heavy drinkers who face the consequences; research suggests that drinking just a few alcoholic beverages can weaken our defenses against illness. Alcoholics and laboratory animals chronically ingesting alcohol have lower-than-normal numbers of all subpopulations of T cells in the blood, in the thymus—the gland where T cells mature—and in the spleen, where […]