Increase in urine flow is due to suppression of antidiuretic hormone. This leads to protein deficiency leading to reduced production of testosterone. This leads to impotency, gynecomastia in men and amenonhea in women. Alcohol liver disease causes increased clearance of testosterone with testicular atrophy leading to true hypogonadism. Sperm formation is also affected leading to infertility.
Infants bom to alcoholic mothers can also have undescended testes and labial hypoplasia.
In addition, the cortisol levels are increased during withdrawal while LH and LH-RH levels are suppressed during chronic alcoholism. It is the suppression of the latter that discards the shame and removes control. Therefore, what an average person does not normally do i.e. use abusive language, undress in public, etc. One third of all auto accidents are due to alcoholism. Under the influence of alcohol, mental judgment and motor skill are affected.