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Wernicke-Korsakoff is actually not a direct consequence of alcohol or quitting alcohol… it is caused by a deficiency of thiamine ( vitamin B1). Alcohol consumption interferes with thiamine uptake, which is why people who regularly consume large amounts of alcohol have thiamine deficiency, especially when they don’t eat well/enough at the same time. It also means that they are not the only ones at risk for Wernicke-Korsakoff…. If you, for some reason or other, suffer from disordered eating (anorexia, bulimia ,etc…), do not have access to sufficient/healthy food or have a condition that impairs thiamine uptake ( gastric sleeve operation…) you are also at risk. The solution, however, is very simple and does not require a subscription from a doctor ( though if you can afford it, visiting one is still very advisable). It’s called multivitamin pills. Since it is rather hard to overdose on thiamine, thiamine and the other vitamin Bs ( who can help with the uptake of thiamine) are often highly dosed in multivitamin pills. So even if you don’t intend to stop drinking, it doesn’t cost you much to make a detour to the nearest drugstore and buy the multivitamins that have the highest dosage of thiamine, pregnancy multivitamins in particular tend to have a lot of thiamine and folate since they are also essential for the proper construction of the neural tube . It will mitigate some of the damage alcohol does to you, and since Vitamine B ( both thiamine and the others) are known to improve depressive feelings, maybe you will feel well enough at a later date to try stopping even if you don’t feel up for it now…