The effects of alcohol on the human body.

Alcoholism is one of the most difficult problems in modern society.Alcohol and its effect on the body is the subject of debate among scientists from various specialties who are trying to establish the reasons for the rapid increase in incidence, ways to get people out of this condition, as well as the risk factors for developing a tendency to drink alcohol regularly.

At first, alcohol-induced changes in internal organs are not characterized by a sudden alteration in their functionality.But over time, the influence of alcohol on a person increases, causing acute disorders in the activity of vital systems of the body and breaking the chain of complex mechanisms of its neurohumoral regulation.

Features of the mechanism of action.

How does alcohol affect the body?Once in the human stomach, alcohol is almost instantly absorbed into the bloodstream.Few people know, but alcoholic beverages begin to decompose in the oral cavity, so the blood is saturated with alcohol from the first minute of its contact with the body.From this moment the harmful effects of alcohol on human organs begin.Approximately 20% of alcohol is neutralized by the liver enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, which deactivates substances containing alcohol toxins.

Most alcohol continues to act in the small intestine.It is from here that alcohol penetrates all the watery areas of the body, to be partially excreted through sweat, urine, saliva, etc., and partially oxidized and accumulate in most organs for several days.During this period, alcohol acts as a poison, slowly poisoning all cells in the body, affecting the development of a person, the state of his psyche and the functionality of internal structures.

The effects of alcohol on systems and organs.

The harmful effects of alcohol on the human body are expressed not only in dysfunction of the brain and liver.Alcoholism has a negative effect on all organs and systems of the human body.In short, regular consumption of alcoholic beverages completely destroys the normal functioning model of the patient's body, has a detrimental effect on its full functioning and is one of the main causes of mortality among people of working age.

Impact on the psyche

We probably all know how alcohol affects the human psyche.Heavy drinkers may experience hallucinations, an overwhelming feeling of anxiety, apathy, and prolonged depression.Alcoholics completely lose themselves.These people become asocial, pay little attention to their appearance, stop caring about everyday human concerns, taking care of their family and the like.

The consequences of alcohol consumption on the human body.

Each stage of addiction has certain distinctive symptoms and characteristics.There are 4 of them in total.

For the initial stagecharacterized by a gradual increase in the consumed dose of alcohol, the formation of dependence and the influence of alcohol on a psychological level.

In the second stagethere is a desire to increase the dose of alcohol.Addiction develops on a physical level.

in the third- destruction on a physical and psycho-emotional level, formation of dementia.

The fourth stage cannot be treated and leads to the death of the addict.Failure of the body's systems and death occurs.

25 reasons to quit alcohol

Many people see nothing wrong with drinking alcohol at night, on weekends or on holidays.But few people have a sense of proportion and willpower.And a seemingly harmless hobby turns into a bad habit.This article provides 25 reasons to quit alcohol, discusses the harm of alcohol and its effect on the human body.

1. Alcohol is the cause of many diseases, meanness, indiscipline, wasted talents, meaningless conflicts and poverty.
2. It is difficult to find a greater evil than alcohol, which would so persistently and mercilessly alter the health of millions of people, so dramatically destroy all human tissues and organs (especially the cerebral cortex), the mind and personality of a person, ultimately leading to a premature death.The insidiousness of this poison lies in the fact that the serious consequences of alcohol damage do not occur immediately, gradually and imperceptibly.
3. The influence of alcohol on a person's life is evidenced by the following facts: 50 percent of accidents, 1/3 of suicides, 80 percent of deaths from oral cavity and esophageal cancer are due to alcohol abuse.
4. As a result of research carried out using the latest technology, Australian scientists have come to the conclusion that both alcoholics and moderate consumers experience a gradual shrinkage and shrinkage of the brain.A glass of alcoholic beverages destroys between 1,000 and 2,000 cells in our brain.These data were confirmed in 95% of alcoholics and 85% of moderate drinkers.

5. Studies have shown that the probability of drinkers giving birth to a healthy person is 15 times lower than that of non-drinkers, the mortality rate of their children is 5 times higher, and morbidity is 3.5 times higher (note that we are only talking about drinkers, not alcoholics).Alcohol affects children before they are even born.Even in families that drink alcohol in moderation, children are born slowly developing, mentally underdeveloped, and even dead.Due to alcohol and drug addiction, women in the United States alone give birth to thousands of premature babies every day.Drinking parents are the worst thieves, they rob their own children of the happiness of future discoveries, the happiness of living a full life (according to F.G. Uglov).
6. Experiments carried out with chicken eggs showed the following: 160 eggs were placed in an incubator in a barn, in the basement of which alcohol was made.The alcohol vapor affected the eggs.When the time came, the following result was obtained: only half of the chicks hatched, 40 of them were non-viable, 25 were mutants (without beak, without claws, etc.).
7. If a person's genetic code is damaged, the entire generation is in danger.Today, 96% of violations of the genetic code are due to various drugs (alcohol, cigarettes, other drugs).
8. Alcohol as a drug is harmful in all its forms and in any dose to the human body, because it acts like morphine or marijuana, that is, it creates the illusion of goodness and happiness, while causing irreparable damage, like any other poison.
9. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), one in three people on the planet dies from causes related to alcohol consumption, and one in five people die from causes related to smoking.This means that for these reasons in Russia we lose almost one and a half million people a year, twenty times more than the number of victims of the Hiroshima atomic explosion.
10. The ban operated successfully in Russia at that time for more than 10 years.During this period the number of sick people decreased, prisons were emptied, peace came to families and prosperity appeared in homes.All this data can be verified using a large medical encyclopedia and many scientific works of the time.
11. Claims by some heavy drinkers that they feel relief after drinking are pure self-deception caused by paralysis of the centers of attention and self-control.The patient, after ingesting any dose of alcohol, falls into a state of euphoria and everything, including his own illness, appears rosy.In fact, drinking alcohol in any quantity only aggravates the process and harms the person.

12. It is not for nothing that people say: "A river begins with a stream, and drunkenness begins with a glass."Let's think about this fact.From the point of view of the contagion of the habit of drinking alcohol, drunks and alcoholics are not the most dangerous, because, looking at them, no one will have the desire to imitate them.More contagious is the example of those who drink “moderately”, “culturedly”, those who drink “observing a ritual”, etc.Unfortunately, our media has “worked hard” to present the holiday in a broader and more seductive way.Rarely does a movie go by without drinks, lavish celebrations and toasts.People drink enthusiastically after these toasts, almost mystically hoping that an empty glass or shot glass is the surest way to fulfill their cherished desires.And children become spectators and witnesses, and then accomplices in alcohol consumption, because they imitate their parents on a subconscious level.
13. Many researchers have shown that if children are invited to play at a birthday or wedding, they reproduce and copy the attributes of an adult party in the games: they sit at a common table, open bottles, clink glasses, toast and walk with a staggering step.A survey of 100 children in one of the kindergartens showed that 97% of children described alcohol poisoning well.From childhood, the idea of alcohol begins to form as a special and obligatory companion to celebrations and meetings, an attractive symbol of adult life.By the age of 11 and 12, adolescents form fairly stable stereotypes of attitudes towards drunkenness.They copy their parents and loved ones in this.
14. Teenagers prevail over who drinks the most.Euphoria is cultivated in these companies.Adolescents project their ideas about courage, masculinity, and maturity onto alcoholism;They induce each other to see who is the drunkest, who shouts, laughs or screams the loudest, who behaves with the most impudence.There is a lot of ostentatious, demonstrative and hysterical behavior.Loud music is usually played, which increases destructive behavior.
15. According to statistics, people who drink live an average of 10 to 15 years less.Smokers for 8 years.Which directly shows the harm of alcohol to the human body.
16. The short answer to the question of why people drink is: they drink because it is a widely advertised and freely sold drug.They drink because alcohol has become a legal drug and is sold cheaply.

17. There is a misconception that you should drink alcohol "for fun."In fact, fun and laughter are very important moments in a person's life.They give the brain rest, distract thoughts from everyday worries, thus strengthening the nervous system and preparing it for new work and worries.But laughter and fun are useful only in cases where they arise in a sober person.According to the scientific and reasonable understanding of this state, there is and cannot be fun with drunks.Drunken "fun" is nothing more than excitement under anesthesia - this is the first stage of anesthesia, the stage of excitement that surgeons observe every day when they give the patient other drugs (ether, chloroform, morphine, etc.), those that are identical in their action to alcohol and, like alcohol, are drugs.This stage of excitement has nothing to do with fun, and there is no rest for the nervous system afterwards.On the contrary, instead of rest, depression appears with all the consequences (headache, apathy, weakness, reluctance to work, etc.).Which is never observed in sober fun.So alcohol is not a friend, but an enemy of fun.It eliminates the time a person reserves for fun and relaxation.Instead, he gets a headache and becomes fatigued.Alcohol acts the same way when you are tired.A person is given a day off so that he can rest physically and mentally and, with new strength and a new desire to work, get to work after resting.
18. Alcohol creates the illusion of stress relief.In fact, the tension in the brain and the entire nervous system remains, and when the effect of hops wears off, the tension turns out to be even greater than before drinking wine.But added to this is a weakening of will and weakness.
19. An innate need to drink beer, wine, vodka, etc.people don't do it.If there were no alcoholic beverages or traditions of drinking them in the world, one could live peacefully without them and not cause harm to the body or loved ones.
20. To make a conscious decision “to drink or not to drink”, it is necessary to know how alcohol affects our body."Advertisers" can invent legends about the usefulness of alcohol.In television commercials they call beer "correct", "life-giving", "for real men", they try to "link" alcoholic products with sexual, patriotic, national and high-status characteristics of people.In order not to be fooled, you yourself must have objective information and learn how to counteract advertising.
21. After drinking alcohol, the amount of urine excreted (diuresis) increases, that is, water and salts are lost.After poisoning, there is intense thirst that "attracts" brine and mineral waters.A brief systematic review of the actual effects of alcohol on all types of metabolism of a living organism leads to one conclusion: all types of metabolism are disturbed.It is this combination of "killer" effects that determines the antiseptic effect of ethyl alcohol and should be an obstacle to its use as a drink.

22. The phrase “alcoholic beverages” is incorrect.“Beverages” must have nutritional value and contain substances involved in nutrition.These include proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins.They are not found in alcohol.There is very little in cognacs, wines and beers.To obtain your daily amount, it is necessary to drink an amount of these liquids whose alcohol content is many times higher than their lethal dose.
23. For example, you can buy a car with the money you spend on alcohol.You can calculate for yourself how much money you spend on alcohol over months and years.
24. There are often references to studies by foreign scientists, for example from various Munich institutes, which prove that beer helps with many diseases.First of all, it should be noted that all of these studies were conducted with the financial support of the alcohol industry.Therefore, these results circulate in the media, but they are difficult to find in serious scientific journals, since such journals usually ask authors to indicate the source of funding for the research, and if it is from the alcohol or tobacco industry, the publication of such studies is perceived as a sign of bad taste.
25. You have the power to get rid of another addiction, be free and happy!