Effects of alcohol on the human body

Alcoholism is one of the most serious problems of modern society.Alcohol and its effect on the body is a subject of discussion among scientists from various specialties who are trying to establish the reasons for the rapid increase in morbidity, the ways to get people out of this state, as well as the risk factors for developing a tendency to regular alcohol use.

Initially, alcohol-induced changes in internal organs are not characterized by a sharp disruption of their functionality.But over time, the influence of alcohol on a person increases, which leads to acute disturbances in the activity of vital systems of the body and disrupts the chain of complex mechanisms of its neurohumoral regulation.

Characteristics of the mechanism of action

How does alcohol affect the body?Once in the human stomach, alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream almost instantly.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.About 20% of alcohol is neutralized by the liver enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, which deactivates substances containing alcohol toxins.

Most of the alcohol continues to work in the small intestine.From here the alcohol penetrates into all the watery regions of the body, to be partially excreted through sweat, urine, saliva, etc., and partially oxidized and accumulated in most organs for several days.During this period, alcohol acts like a poison, slowly poisoning all the cells of the body, affecting the development of the person, the state of his psyche and the functionality of the internal structures.

The effect 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, the regular consumption of alcoholic beverages completely destroys the pattern of normal functioning 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

Probably, each of us knows how alcohol affects the human psyche.Heavy drinkers may experience hallucinations, overwhelming feelings of anxiety, apathy, and prolonged depression.Alcoholics completely lose themselves.These people become asocial, pay little attention to their appearance, stop worrying about everyday human concerns, family care and the like.

The consequences of drinking alcohol on the human body

Each stage of addiction has certain symptoms and distinctive features.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.

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

The fourth stage is not treated and leads to the death of the addict.Damage to body systems and death occurs.

25 reasons to give up alcohol

Many people see nothing wrong with drinking alcohol in the evening, on weekends or on holidays.But few people have a sense of measure and will.And a seemingly harmless hobby turns into a harmful habit.This article provides 25 reasons to give up 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, senseless conflicts and poverty.
2. It is difficult to find a greater evil than alcohol, which so persistently and relentlessly upsets the health of millions of people, so dramatically destroys all human tissues and organs (especially the cerebral cortex), the mind and personality of man, ultimately leading to an early death.The insidiousness of this poison consists in the fact that the serious consequences of alcohol harm do not occur immediately, gradually, imperceptibly.
3. The influence of alcohol on a person's life is proven by the following facts: 50 percent of accidents, 1/3 of suicides, 80 percent of deaths from cancer of the oral cavity and esophagus are due to alcohol abuse.
4. As a result of research conducted with the help of the latest technologies, Australian scientists concluded that both alcoholics and moderate drinkers experience a gradual reduction and shrinkage of the brain.One glass of alcoholic beverages destroys 1000-2000 cells in our brain.These data were confirmed in 95% of alcoholics and 85% of moderate drinkers.

5. Studies prove that drinkers are 15 times less likely to give birth to a healthy person than non-drinkers, their child mortality is 5 times higher, and morbidity is 3.5 times higher (note that we are only talking about drinkers, not alcoholics).Alcohol affects children even before they are born.Even in families that drink alcohol moderately, children are born with slow development, mentally underdeveloped and even dead.Because of their addiction to alcohol and drugs, women in America alone give birth to thousands of premature babies every day.Drinking parents are the worst thieves who steal from their own children the happiness of future discoveries, the happiness of living a full life (according to F.G. Uglov).
6. Experiments conducted on chicken eggs showed the following: 160 eggs were placed in an incubator in a barn, in the basement of which alcohol was being brewed.The alcoholic fumes 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 (beakless, clawless, etc.).
7. If a person's genetic code is damaged, the entire generation is at risk.Today, 96% of genetic code violations are due to various drugs (alcohol, cigarettes, other drugs).
8. Alcohol as a drug is harmful in any form 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 harm, like any other poison.
9. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), every third person on earth dies from causes related to alcohol consumption, and every fifth person dies from causes related to smoking.This means that for these reasons in Russia we lose almost a million and a half people a year, which is 20 times more than the number of victims of the atomic explosion in Hiroshima.
10. The ban had been operating 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 these data can be checked with the help of a large medical encyclopedia and many scientific works of the time.
11. The assurances of some drinkers that they feel relief after drinking is pure self-deception caused by paralysis of the centers of attention and self-control.The patient, after taking any dose of alcohol, falls into a state of euphoria and everything, even his own illness, looks rosy.In fact, drinking alcohol in any quantity only worsens the process and harms the person.

12. It is not for nothing that people say: "A river begins with a stream, and drunkenness with a cup."Let's think about this fact.From the point of view of the contagiousness of the habit of drinking alcohol, it is not drunkards and alcoholics who are more dangerous, because, looking at them, no one will want to imitate them.More contagious is the example of those who drink "moderately", "culturally", those who drink "following a ritual", etc.Unfortunately, our media have "made an effort" to present the holiday more broadly and more seductively.Rarely does a movie pass without a glass, lavish celebrations and toasts.People drink enthusiastically after these toasts, almost mystically hoping that an empty glass or shot is the surest way to fulfill their innermost desires.And children become spectators and witnesses, and then accomplices in drinking alcohol, 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 celebration in games - they sit at a communal table, open bottles, clink glasses, make toasts and walk with a wobbly gait.A survey of 100 boys in one of the kindergartens showed that 97% of the children described alcohol intoxication well.Since kindergarten, the idea of alcohol begins to form as a special, obligatory companion of celebrations and meetings, an attractive symbol of adult life.By the age of 11-12, adolescents form fairly stable stereotypes about attitudes towards drunkenness.They copy their parents and loved ones in this.
14. Teenagers assert themselves by who drinks more.Euphoria is cultivated in such companies.Teenagers project their ideas of courage, masculinity, maturity onto alcoholism;they goad each other to see who is more drunk, who shouts or laughs or squeals louder, who acts more brazen.There is a lot of ostentatious, demonstrative, hysterical behavior.Loud music is usually played, which increases destructive behavior.
15. According to statistics, drinkers live an average of 10-15 years less.Smokers for 8 years.Which directly shows the harm of alcohol on the human body.
16. The short answer to the question of why people drink is: they drink because it is a drug that is widely advertised and sold freely.They drink because alcohol is a legal drug and is sold cheaply.

17. There is a misconception that alcohol should be taken "for fun".In fact, fun and laughter are very important moments in a person's life.They give the brain a break, divert thoughts from everyday worries, thereby strengthening the nervous system, preparing it for new work and care.But laughter and fun are only useful when they occur in a sober person.There is and cannot be drunken revelry in the scientific and reasonable understanding of this condition.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 after it there is no rest for the nervous system.On the contrary, instead of rest, depression occurs with all the consequences (headache, apathy, weakness, unwillingness to work, etc.).Which is never seen in sober fun.So alcohol is not a friend but an enemy of fun.It eliminates the time one spends on entertainment and rest.Instead, he gets headaches and fatigue.Alcohol works the same way when you're tired.A day off is given to a person to rest physically and mentally and with new strength and a new desire to work, after resting, he goes to work.
18. Alcohol creates the illusion of stress relief.In fact, the tension in the brain and in the entire nervous system remains, and when the hops subside, the tension is even greater than before the wine was drunk.But to this is added weakening of the will and weakness.
19. Innate need to drink beer, wine, vodka, etc.people don't have.If there were no alcoholic beverages and traditions for drinking them in the world, a person could live peacefully without them and not cause harm to the body and loved ones.
20. To make a conscious choice "to drink or not to drink", you need to know how alcohol affects our body."Advertisers" can invent all kinds of legends about the usefulness of alcohol.In TV commercials, they call beer "correct", "lively", "for real men", try to "associate" alcoholic products with sexual, patriotic, national, high-ranking characteristics of people.In order not to be deceived, you yourself must have objective information and learn to counter advertising.
21. After drinking alcohol, the amount of urine (diuresis) increases, that is, water and salts are lost.After intoxication, there is a strong thirst, "pulling" of brine and mineral waters.A brief systematic review of the actual effects of alcohol on all types of metabolism in the living organism leads to one conclusion: all types of metabolism are impaired.It is this combination of "killing" effects that determines the antiseptic effect of ethyl alcohol and should be an obstacle to its use as beverages.

22. The term "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 beer.To accumulate their daily amount, you need to drink an amount of these liquids, in which the alcohol content exceeds its 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 for months and years.
24. Research by foreign scientists, for example a number of institutes from Munich, proving that beer helps with many diseases, is often mentioned.First of all, it should be noted that all such studies were conducted with the financial support of the alcohol industry.That is why such results are circulated in the media, but it is difficult to find them in serious scientific journals, because such journals usually require the authors to indicate the source of funding of the study, and if it is the alcohol or tobacco industry, then the publication of such studies is perceived as a sign of bad taste.
25. You have the power to get rid of another addiction, become free and happy!