Alcohol is a narcotic neurotropic and protoplasmic poison that affects the nervous system and destroys vital human organs. Frequent use of alcoholic beverages leads to the formation of alcohol dependence. How and when the moment of transition from “drinking” to “becoming dependent” comes is difficult to predict.
We are used to alcohol being freely available on grocery store shelves. A lot of almost useful properties are attributed to it.
Myth 1: Alcohol is a food product
A food product can only be a substance that is absolutely harmless to the body. Alcohol, as a narcotic poison, in any doses does a person great harm, poisoning and destroying the body, it shortens life by an average of 20 years.
Myth 2: Alcohol in small doses is harmless
There is no amount of alcoholic drink that can be consumed without risk to health. The World Health Organization has recognized that even small amounts of alcoholic drinks have a negative impact on the body. Cardiovascular problems, liver problems, overweight, deterioration of brain function – these are the most obvious problems that arise in a drinking person.
Talking about “moderate” doses and “cultural” drinking is a trap for simpletons. All drinkers and alcoholics start, naturally, with small doses. It is well known how it ends.
Myth 3: Alcohol warms
Under the influence of ethanol, skin vessels become paralyzed, they dilate, and more blood flows to the surface of the body. It seems to the person that he warmed up, but in fact heats up only the skin, which very quickly gives the received heat to the outside. The body temperature decreases.
Myth 4: Alcohol cheers up, relieves tension
Taking small doses of alcoholic drinkl can indeed lower restraint, “loosen the tongue” and create some conditions for fun in people with inhibited reactions. This is due to the fact that alcohol, quickly absorbed from the alimentary canal into the blood, acts primarily on the cells of the higher centers of the nervous system in the cerebral cortex, causing their paralysis. Hence excessive talkativeness, frivolous actions, self-boasting and a sense of self-righteousness.
An intoxicated person becomes swaggering, uncritical, tactless. His actions are impulsive, ill-considered.
As for the assertion that alcohol relieves tension, it is complete nonsense. Alcoholic beverages do not reduce, but aggravate stress, which is an absolutely proven fact.
Myth 5: Alcohol removes radiation
Many people drink alcoholic beverages naively believing in the claim that they remove radionuclides from the body. In fact, alcoholic drinks can be neither preventative nor curative against radiation. Studies using labeled atoms have shown that alcohol redistributes radionuclides throughout the body, not removes them.
Myth 6: In the Caucasus they drink wine and live a long
life In fact, longevity has been observed only in three small mountainous regions of the Caucasus: in the mountains of Azerbaijan, in the south of Dagestan and in Abkhazia. And it has nothing to do with alcoholic drink consumption.
“Avoided abundant food. I have never tasted wine in my entire life and do not even know its taste” – this is what, in particular, many Abkhazians over 100 years old say.
Myth 7: Beer and wine are less harmful than vodka and cognac
It is not beer and vodka that are harmful to health, but the ethyl alcohol they contain, which is exactly the same in all alcoholic products. It only matters how much ethyl alcohol enters the body, for example, in a week or a month.
Beer and wine just like vodka and cognac lead to the development of alcoholism. For example, beer alcoholism is widespread in Germany and Denmark, and wine alcoholism in France.
The effect of alcoholic drink on a person
- On the psyche
Not only the development of higher forms of thinking, the elaboration of ethical and moral categories and aesthetic concepts is delayed, but also the already developed abilities are lost. A person degenerates intellectually, emotionally and morally.
- On mental activity
Both on the day of taking alcoholic drink and on the next day it is difficult for a person to concentrate, the ability to perceive and assimilate knowledge is impaired. It is difficult to study, read books. There is indifference to others, irritability, aggressiveness. Even a small amount of alcohol leads to the fact that a person begins to behave swaggeringly. Often he becomes the cause of ridicule from others.
- On the liver
It is in the liver that alcohol is broken down by enzymes. If the rate at which alcohol enters the liver cells is higher than the rate of its breakdown, alcohol accumulation occurs, leading to disruption of the structure of liver cells. With systematic use of alcoholic beverages, the change in liver cells leads to necrosis of liver tissue – liver cirrhosis develops. The effect of alcoholic drink on the liver of a young person is even more destructive, since this organ is in the stage of structural and functional formation.
- On the stomach
It acts “burning” on the inner surface of the stomach, which leads to its diseases – there are pains, food is poorly digested, the digestion process is hampered, which adversely affects human growth and development.
- On the lungs
About 10% of the alcoholic drinks consumed is removed from the body through the lungs. Alcohol and its breakdown products have a direct toxic effect on the delicate bronchial tissue, disrupting the permeability and tone of blood vessels. Damage to bronchial tissue, opening the “gate” for infection, can lead to respiratory disease.
- On my heart
The rhythm and frequency of heart contractions, metabolic processes in the muscle cells of the heart change, which prevents the full formation of the muscular and nervous apparatus of the heart of a young person.
- On blood
The activity of leukocytes, an important tool in the defense of the body, decreases, the movement of red blood cells carrying oxygen to tissues slows down, the function of platelets, which are important for blood coagulation, is pathologically altered.
Conclusion
Alcohol has a devastating effect on the human body, despite common myths about its “benefits” or “harmlessness”. alcoholic drink consumption in any dosage poses a serious health threat, leading to diseases of various organs and systems, including the heart, liver, stomach, and brain. It is important to realize that alcoholic drink not only impairs physical health, but also affects the mental state, leading to personal degradation. The only way to stay healthy and avoid serious consequences is to stop drinking alcohol or reduce alcohol consumption to the minimum safe levels.
