I don't know when it began, alcoholic beverages have become indispensable supporting roles on the table.
After entering the society, many people will always take the initiative or be forced to raise the wine glass, through the wine of this kind of thing, play a role in paralyzing the nerves, temporarily forgetting troubles, increasing social interaction and so on.
However, between cups and cups, your health is also being stolen by alcohol!
This is not alarmist, in clinical view, alcohol for the human body, can be described as a hundred harms and no benefits. From the moment it enters the body, it can cause damage to multiple systems, organs, and tissues throughout the body.
Long-term drinking, no matter how much or how little you drink each time, will cause harm to the body, and the following problems may come to you:
1. Gastrointestinal injury
Although the digestive tract is not an organ that metabolizes alcohol, alcohol enters the human body and first passes through the mouth, esophagus and stomach. Alcohol has a certain penetrating ability, it can penetrate the protective layer of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, directly causing irritation and damage to the mucous membrane, the higher the concentration of liquor, the greater the damage.
Long-term alcohol abuse may cause erosion of the digestive tract mucosa or ulceration, inflammation and other problems. Drinking alcohol on the basis of having digestive tract diseases can even lead to gastric perforation;
2. Blood circulation system
When alcohol enters the stomach, it is not digested and absorbed in the stomach, but is quickly absorbed by the gastric mucosa into the blood circulation.
When alcohol travels in the blood, it will cause irritation to blood vessels, resulting in vasodilation, increased burden of heart pumping, and alcohol will also cause damage to the endothelium of blood vessels, promoting the formation of atherosclerosis, hypertension and other diseases. In clinical view, alcohol is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease;
3. Liver damage
As the circulatory system transports, alcohol enters the liver. Relevant studies have shown that more than 95% of the alcohol ingested by the human body is metabolically degraded in the liver.
However, in the process of alcohol metabolism, whether it is ethanol itself or acetaldehyde, it has a direct toxic effect on liver cells, and alcohol metabolism will also inhibit other biotransforming functions of the liver, which will induce a series of alcoholic liver diseases, such as fatty liver, hepatitis, fibrosis and cirrhosis;
4. Kidney damage
If you drink a lot of alcohol at once, it may also cause damage to the kidneys. Because the liver metabolizes alcohol, it takes a certain amount of time.
The diuretic effect of the drink itself, especially after drinking beer, part of the alcohol has not yet had time to be metabolized by the liver, along with the kidney filtration, involved in urine production, which may cause damage to the renal parenchyma or renal interstitial, becoming a breakthrough in chronic kidney disease;
5. Carcinogenicity
According to the list of carcinogens published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, alcohol is in the ranks of a class of carcinogens. Its carcinogenicity can be divided into two parts, the first is that alcohol damage induces chronic disease, reduces immune function, repeated damage to cells and changes in DNA during repair.
Second, the alcohol metabolite acetaldehyde has a certain cytotoxic effect, which can change the expression of cellular DNA and further increase the possibility of cancer.
From the above content, it is not difficult to see that alcohol does not have any benefits for the human body, the longer the drinking, the more prone to various chronic diseases, and even the risk of carcinogenic, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease attacks.
There is no so-called safe dose of alcohol consumption, and the optimal amount of alcohol consumption is 0. Therefore, if you don't want to find yourself with alcohol-related diseases in the future, it is necessary to actively quit alcohol from now on.