One or two drinks don’t harm your health. In 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that alcohol consumption is safe for our health. The more you drink, the easier you to have a harmful health risk. New studies have shown that eating more than eight alcoholic beverages per week can greatly increase the risk. Brain damage.
This study, led by Alberto Fernando Oliveira Justo at the Sao Paulo Medical School of Brazil, found that drinking more than eight drinks a week is related to memories and accidents. This study has been published neurologyAmerican neurological academy journal. But new research does not prove that severe drinking causes brain damage, but only shows association.
In a statement, “The heavy alcohol consumption is a global health problem associated with health problems and deaths,” said Dr. Alberto Fernando Oliveira Justo. It can lead to memory and thinking problems, which can lead to memory and thinking problems.
Alcohol and brain
To understand the influence of alcohol on the brain, researchers studied an average of 75 years old when they died. All of them had a brain autopsy. The researchers found signs of brain damage, including tau and hyalin atherosclerosis.
Hyaline atherosclerosis is a state in which small blood vessels are narrow and thick and stiff. This is more difficult for blood to flow, which can damage the brain over time. It looks like a damaged tissue area of the lesion, the brain.
Researchers also measured brain weight and height of each participant. Family members answered the participants’ alcohol consumption.
To better understand, the participants were placed in four groups. 965 people who did not drink 965 people, 319 intermediate drinkers with less than 7 drinks a week; 129 heavy drinkers who drank more than eight drinks a week; And 368 heavy drinkers. One drink is defined as an alcohol of 14 gm, which is about 350 milliliters (ml) beer, 150 mL of wine or 45 mL of distillation.
Researchers found that 40%of people had no drinking lesions. Middle school drinkers had 45%vascular brain lesions, 44%of heavy drinkers, and 50%of previous heavy drinkers.
After considering the factors that could affect brain health, such as death, smoking, and physical activity, heavy drinkers were 133% more likely to have vascular brain lesions than those who never drank, 89% higher for previous heavy drinkers, and 60% of moderate drinkers.
The study is also more likely to develop heavy drunkards in the past, which are likely to develop Tau Tongles, a biomarker related to Alzheimer’s disease, and 41% and 31% higher, respectively.
In addition, the previous heavy drinker has a lower ratio of brain mass, which has a smaller proportion of brain mass compared to the body mass and has worsened cognitive abilities. In addition to brain damage, cognitive abilities have been damaged. They also found that they died on average 13 years earlier than those who had never drunk.
Justo said, “We have found that severe drinking is directly related to the signs of injuries of the brain, which can have a long -term effect on brain health, which can affect memory and thinking ability, which is important for public health awareness and is important for continuing to implement preventive measures to reduce drinking.
