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Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:31 am by *WillEase*

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Myth: Alcohol kills brain cells. Now, to qualify that title, pure alcohol will absolutely kill brain cells and many
other types of cells, which is why it is used as a disinfectant. However, recent research has shown that the
quantity of alcohol you could possibly take in, without killing yourself, does not introduce enough alcohol into
your bloodstream to kill brain cells.
This was proven by a study by Grethe Jensen and co. (1993), who meticulously counted neurons in matched
samples of non-alcoholics and alcoholics. What they found was that there was no real dierence in the density or
overall number of neurons between the two groups.
Various other research since has backed up Jensen's ndings. Thus, even alcoholics who are continually taking in
unhealthy amounts of alcohol aren't going to see brain cells die because of their drinking problem. However,
alcohol does have other eects on the brain, both positive and negative, that have nothing to do with brain cells
dying.
First, the positive: drinking moderate amounts of alcohol on a regular basis has been shown to have various
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positive eects on your body. The one that pertains to this article's topic is that it has been shown to help protect
people from cognitive impairment as they age. According to a study done at the Catholic University of the Sacred
Heart, in Italy, 29% of people 65 years or older who almost never drank alcohol throughout their life had mental
impairment issues. On the ip-side of that, only about 19% of people 65 years or older who drank moderate
amounts of alcohol regularly had any mental impairment.
It was further discovered that, among the various groups where other problems, such as health problems or the
like, might impair them mentally, the same trend appeared. In every group, those who drank moderately on a
regular basis throughout their lives always had a diminished chance of becoming mentally impaired in their old
age compared to those who didn't drink at all or almost never drank.
Now for the negative (there's a lot when it comes to intemperate alcohol consumption, so I'll only cover a few):
while brain cells aren't being killed as the result of drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, the ability for your
brain cells to communicate with one another is being inhibited. What's going on here is that the alcohol ends up
damaging dendrites, which are the things at the ends of neurons that conduct electrochemical stimulation from
another cell to the cell body in question. Basically, with some of these dendrites damaged, it inhibits the ability of
your brain cells to talk to one another.
Luckily, you have an amazing number of connections and neurons in your brain (about 100 billion neurons, along
with 10s of billions of glial cells, which support the neurons). So this helps mask the problem. Also, even among
long time alcoholics, it has been shown that simply quitting drinking copious amounts of alcohol is all that is
required for your body to be able to reverse most of the damage to the dendrites and restore the ability for your
brain cells to communicate. So you can aord to damage some of the neurons temporarily without any real
lasting eect.
Unfortunately, for the people who have an extreme habit of excessively drinking, there are other side eects on
your brain that aren't so easily completely xed, such as developing Wernicke-Korsako syndrome, which is
characterized by: confusion, coordination problems, hallucinations, memory problems, eye problems, and even
inducing a coma or death, if it's left untreated. What's going on here is that excessive alcohol consumption over a
long period of time causes a vitamin B1 deciency (8 out of 10 alcoholics are vitamin B1 decient), due to the
alcohol inhibiting the body's ability to absorb thiamine (also many alcoholics are often malnourished because of
their own bad eating habits). This, in turn, causes neuron death, among other things. This is treatable, in most
cases, but certain eects stick around forever as your body won't be able to repair itself completely from this
particular brand of damage.
Another brain-related side eect caused by excessive drinking is that high doses of alcohol, while not killing your
brain cells, inhibits the growth of new brain cells. However, recent research has shown, at least with rats, that
once the alcohol was no longer given to the rats, new brain cell production went into overdrive to try to
compensate for the previously inhibited brain cell production. Now, if you go for long enough without giving your
brain a chance to recover, drinking excessively on a regular basis, it is thought there may still be lasting eects
due to this inhibited new brain cell growth over extended periods, but whether this is actually the case or not,
isn't yet known.
There are also a variety of other known neurological problems that are associated with intemperate alcohol
consumptions over long periods of time and some that even show up in a short amount of time in children and
teens who abuse alcohol, but this article is already too long. Then of course, there are the myriad of other
problems, non-brain related that come with alcoholism, such as liver problems, other nervous system problems
outside of how it aects your brain, and others.
Bottom line, alcohol consumed in moderation, such as a small glass of wine a day, can be very good for you. On
the other hand, drinking excessively won't kill you brain cells directly, but is still bad for your brain. Although,
your body can compensate, to a certain extent, and repair the damage caused in most cases, at least as far as
your brain is concerned, so long as you don't make a regular habit of it.
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:40 am by Opalserpent

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Yeah moderation is important.

I can't see you drinking much Willease, your a smoker aren't you?
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Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:01 am by RATRODROB

Opalserpent wrote:
Yeah moderation is important.
I can't see you drinking much Willease, your a smoker aren't you?
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Yeah OPAL moderation is important, but why do you think WILL would be a small drinker because he smokes, I
cant stand cigarettes, but once ive had a couple of bourbons I love a few cigs, they and alchohol go hand in hand
to me, unfortunately.

Too much booze too often can be worse than weed ever will.

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Oh crap, I just realised you was talkin bout weed and not cigs

, fckn der. But still, when I were a choon I still

drank at the same time.

Ah screw it, I thought abandoning this reply but didn't...........................

hahaha

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Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:09 pm by *WillEase*

Opalserpent wrote:
Yeah moderation is important.
I can't see you drinking much Willease, your a smoker aren't you?

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These days I try to keep my "White Russian" intake to a couple during league, except in my case it's
pool. But anytime is a good time to smoke some ganja.

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Sat Jan 11, 2014 3:28 pm by Toxic32

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