Everyone is aware of the fact that too much drinking leads to misery. Today I am not talking about excessive drinking, but rather moderate alcohol consumption.
You’ve probably heard that a glass of red wine daily is good for you, or that 7-14 drinks a week are not harmful and are even recommended.
Unfortunately, recent research has found that even moderate alcohol consumption shrinks the brain.
The researchers in this latest study looked at 300 people between the ages of 39 and 45 to understand the effects of drinking on the brain. Most people in the study reported that they drank at what was considered moderate or low-risk levels. Even at this level, there was a reduction in the amount of total brain tissue seen on brain scans.
Frontal lobe damage
We now know that the brain’s frontal lobes are actually damaged by alcohol at an earlier stage than those parts of the brain associated with memory.
The frontal lobes control our personality, behavior, and ability to think flexibly.
Source: https://theconversation.com
Alcohol consumption also raises cortisol and makes you more stressed on the days you don’t drink.
What’s in that drink?
How many times have you asked a bartender – what’s in that drink? It seems like a fairly innocuous question, right? You’re expecting to hear something like rum, triple sec, orange juice, pineapple juice, and a twist of lime.
What if someone answered with the truth about alcohol?
- Ethanol
- Arsenic
- Carcinogens
- Depression
- Pesticides
- Propylene Glycol (also known as antifreeze)
- Insulin disruptors
- Infertility
- Anemia
- Liver Disease
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Ulcers and more.
Alcohol, when you deconstruct it, is not “just a drink.” You’re not relaxing, letting loose, or enjoying yourself by ingesting it.
The truth about alcohol is that it IS dangerous – on a chemical, physical and psychological level.
The dangers of alcohol outweigh any perceived benefits.
https://thisnakedmind.com/truth-about-alcohol/ https://thisnakedmind.com/this-naked-mind-book/
Regions of the Brain Affected by Alcohol
Mesolimbic pathway
Alcohol stimulates the mesolimbic pathway, or the reward pathway, within the brain and releases dopamine causing a feeling of pleasure.
This pathway is the major pathway involved with addiction in which constant stimulation of the pathway requires more of a substance to create the same level of pleasure.
Studies have shown that a pathway that is repeatedly activated, in this case by drinking, becomes covered by a mesh-like glue that makes it difficult to form new synapses or break old ones.
This explains why addiction is so tough to overcome, the pattern is ingrained and held together that way in the brain. (6, 7)
Source: https://draxe.com/health/how-does-alcohol-affect-the-brain/
Besides the fact that alcohol makes you dopey, it also causes cancer. For the average person, this is perhaps unthinkable.
Most people do not understand that
the human body should be respected as a temple
since it gives place to the spirit and mind. It is as if the whole world conspired against health: non-kosher non-organic food, ultra-processed fast food, drugs, fluoride toothpaste, vaccines, and tap water all destroy the human body and soul.
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If not, sit down with your beer and watch Netflix, I don’t care.
Sincerely, Ben
In 2023-04-11