5. Alcohol
We could find you a thousand studies on the benefits of consuming alcohol in moderation right this very second. But we could also find you a hundred thousand studies that speak of the ill-effects of consuming too much alcohol – and this includes many symptoms of which the most severe is death.
Alcohol has the potential to tear families apart, but for some it’s just another way to an escape and they do not need to drink enough to experience harmful effects. Whatever you think about alcohol and however you might feel about it, you should remember that it is in reality still a blood thinner – which means that it can have the same effect on your body as if you were to take a handful of blood thinning medication: It can thin the blood to the point where you start experiencing seriously bad symptoms, including of course a nosebleed.