alcohol lies to us alcohol causes damage in the brain really even a little bit of alcohol it disrupts something called white matter so gray matter nerve cell bodies white matter nerve cell tracks so white matters the highways in your brain that transmit information and impulse and even a little bit of alcohol has been shown to disrupt the white matter by any alcohol increases your risk of seven different types of cancer you got to ask yourself wide so where does alcohol come in oh well it helps me relaxed while fifteen second breath will help you relax but there are no side effects that will increase your heart rate variability alcohol decrease are great variability and brain function and if it decreases brain function and decreases decision-making thirty percent forty percent people i see they initially come to my office because it's somehow alcohol related