Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login At the end of a busy week, I’m dreaming of getting home, opening the fridge and pouring myself a glass of a crisp, white wine . On nights out with friends, I look forward to sipping on cocktails .

Inevitably, the night ends with a couple of shots . When too many of these occasions cluster together, I always commit to cutting back the following week “to give my liver a break”. That’s the only organ I ever pay much mind to when it comes to drinking, as, famously, alcohol kills off liver cells.

I’m guilty, as I presume many others are, of not thinking about how drinking is hitting my brain. The Telegraph London Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.

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