https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articl ... tudy-findsDrinking even moderate amounts of alcohol is linked to changes in brain structure and an increased risk of worsening brain function, scientists said on Tuesday.
In a 30-year study that looked at the brains of 550 middle-aged heavy drinkers, moderate drinkers and teetotallers, the researchers found people drank more alcohol had a greater risk of hippocampal atrophy - a form of brain damage that affects memory and spatial navigation.
People who drank more than 30 units a week on average had the highest risk, but even those who drank moderately - between 14 and 21 units a week - were far more likely than abstainers to have hippocampal atrophy, the scientists said.
the Moderates are as bad as the extremists
the Moderates are as bad as the extremists
Sorry, moderate drinkers.
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I just checked, and my hippocampal is just fine...
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I don't have a hippocampal, I got a hippocambuddy.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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A hip campari and soda for me.
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The brain is massively adaptive. Don't need it all to consume alcohol. If bits fall off then other parts come into gear to compensate. And that is the same at the time, as well as later when you have sobered up to face the bleak reality of life as we know it these days.
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I call bullshit - Alfred E Einstein
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30 units a week...... amateurs
Give me the wine , I don't need the bread
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30 eunuchs a week?
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