8 strong myths about alcohol

Alcohol - is not just vodka and beer, which for many people, like tea, is a practical everyday drink. But good or bad, and in general - do we understand how alcohol acts on the body or are content with the usual stereotypes? Try to understand ...

Many can only drink a healthy person

The ability to drink without getting drunk, you have to drink large amounts of alcohol immediately without intoxication in science is called tolerance to alcohol. To many it seems a unique ability, but doctors believe a "talent" a sign of the second stage of alcoholism. If a person has a high resistance to alcohol, it does not mean that he can not be alcohol dependence. Maybe! But this   alcohol addiction   very quickly it develops into severe illness, often with fatal consequences.

When a person can drink without getting drunk It is usually much more than other drinks. As a result, his body gets a horse dose of toxic products produced during the digestion of ethanol. Over the years, the wastes accumulate, until one day "for no apparent reason" does not happen a heart attack or stroke - cardiovascular system in the end can not withstand the load.

Alcohol increases the appetite

In fact, the famine provoked by light only strong drink, and in small quantities. Under the influence of alcohol activated the nerve centers responsible for the hunger-saturation - on their "awakening" takes about 15 minutes. Drink alcohol   to excite the appetite - a dangerous occupation. Especially on an empty stomach, and just before eating. Strong alcohol   irritate the stomach and esophagus, causing heartburn and gastritis.

Alcohol fattening

Yes!   Alcohol fattening Because alcohol contains carbohydrates, in which the processing in the body are converted to fatty acid only. Fat deposited on the stomach, the sides and the like. Particularly dangerous from the standpoint of nutrition spirits - each gram contains not less than 7 kcal.

By the way, large amounts of alcohol inhibit nerve centers signaling about saturation. Actively drinking, a person does not notice that overeating - simply does not feel satiety.

Expensive and high quality alcohol - is harmless

No alcoholic beverage per se is neither harmful or harmless. Health hazard is an alcoholic poison - or rather, acetaldehyde, which is formed in the body after treatment of ethanol. This poison is gradually neutralized by the liver, but with frequent binge liver does not have time to remove toxins, it begins to accumulate in the cells. And even quality alcohol   provokes the formation of alcoholic poison, particularly harmful to the cardiovascular system.

Taking antibiotics can not drink!

In fact   alcohol   only can reduce the effects of some antibiotics, which is not, in general, life threatening. You may also experience unwanted side effects such as excessive intoxication.

Much more dangerous combination of alcohol with painkillers, especially acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen and aspirin. In such a situation, increasing the risk of damage to the intestinal mucosa.

Alcohol helps to sleep

It really is. but alcohol It gives cyclicity sleep, and particularly its impact on deep phase. Falling asleep in a drunken state, the person wakes up easily, because somewhere in four hours alcohol is no longer valid and the nerve centers disinhibited. But under repeated ritual of "drink at night," the hypnotic effect of alcohol and all begins to fade.

Alcoholism can be encoded

Coding as a method of treatment does not eliminate the causes that led to alcohol addiction and restore the nervous system. Quite a large category of patients continue to get sick, even if you do not drink a result of coding: they suffer from depression and bouts of irritation. Such people are very painful to carry sobriety because the mechanism of the pleasure of real life they did not turn on after the "strings". Some just waiting coding   end of period, in "X hour" craving for alcohol escapes with great force. Sometimes after encoding patients start to drink even more than before.

Alcohol relieves stress

Raise your spirits with alcohol can actually be. But for this alcohol dose should be quite small - 20-30 ml of vodka or cognac. Under the influence of alcohol in the blood is ejected intensively dopamine - the hormone of happiness that causes a person exhilaration, euphoria. But a large dose causes the brain to develop too active substances, and for one night, you can deplete dopamine, that would support the mood all day tomorrow. Therefore, the morning after a stormy booze human condition characterized as stress and depression.

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