Research has revealed a steep increase in liver disease in recent years. Meanwhile, there is growing evidence of health harms from alcohol, including drinking at levels that were previously considered “moderate.” These developments make a persuasive case for viewing alcohol consumption from a public health perspective. As an internal medicine physician and alcohol epidemiologist, I’m interested in the overlap between …
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Scientists Find Brain Circuit That Locks Alcohol Users in Addiction Cycle
Scientists have pinpointed a hidden brain circuit that may explain why withdrawal drives people back to alcohol. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers at Scripps Research have shown in an animal model that the brain learns to pursue alcohol as a way to find relief, rather than only for its rewarding effects. What drives a person to keep drinking alcohol despite the harm …
Read More »Alcohol is a neurotoxin and this is why there is no such thing as moderate drinking (sorry!)
A new study from the universities of Oxford, Yale and Cambridge has found that any level of alcohol consumption may increase risks of dementia. This wide-ranging study, published earlier this week on BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, suggested there may be no such thing as a “safe level” of booze, where brain health is concerned. Dr Anya Topiwala, lead author on the …
Read More »Drinking in moderation? Study warns even small amounts of alcohol may seriously harm brain health | Health – Hindustan Times
Drinking in moderation? Study warns even small amounts of alcohol may seriously harm brain health | Health Hindustan Times There is no safe amount of alcohol when it comes to dementia, study finds CNN Dementia: Drinking any amount of alcohol linked to higher risk Medical News Today There May Be No Safe Amount of Booze When It Comes to Dementia Risk ScienceAlert What’s the …
Read More »Any alcohol increases dementia risk
Getty Images The study suggests alcohol use, even at moderate levels, may have no safe threshold when it comes to brain health Any amount of alcohol consumption may increase the risk of dementia, a new large-scale study has found. The University of Oxford, Yale University, and the University of Cambridge have described their research into alcohol consumption and dementia risk …
Read More »Study shows “any amount” of alcohol increases risk of dementia
We have heard this claim for years: having one or two drinks of alcohol every day might actually help the brain and keep dementia at bay. It sounded neat and tidy – and pleasantly convenient. But appealing stories are not always true, including this one, especially when they come from snapshots of messy human lives. Here is the …
Read More »There is no safe amount of alcohol when it comes to dementia, study finds
Drinking any amount of alcohol increases your risk of dementia later in life, according to a new study that challenges prior research findings. Some research has suggested light drinking — such as fewer than seven drinks a week — may be more neuroprotective than no alcohol at all. Those studies, however, focused on older people and didn’t differentiate between former …
Read More »Why alcohol blocks the liver from healing, even after you quit
Excessive alcohol consumption can disrupt the liver’s unique regenerative abilities by trapping cells in limbo between their functional and regenerative states, even after a patient stops drinking, researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at Duke University and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago describe in a new study. This in-between state is a result of inflammation disrupting how RNA …
Read More »Scientists finally reveal the hidden mechanism linking alcohol to fatty liver
Mayo Clinic researchers have pinpointed how excessive alcohol consumption contributes to fatty liver disease, a condition that affects more than one in three people in the U.S. Also known as Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease, it is a long-lasting disease that can lead to type 2 diabetes and even liver cancer. Excessive alcohol can contribute to this fatty disease …
Read More »An Upsetting Number of Americans Are Dying From Alcohol
Fewer Americans say they drink alcohol now than they have done for decades, but for those that do, the habit appears to have become dramatically deadlier over time, with the alcohol-related death rate in the U.S. almost doubling in the last twenty years. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles examined data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control …
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