Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Health

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Alcohol’s calming effect is also the reason why, as soon as the seatbelt sign is turned off on an aeroplane, the drinks trolley is wheeled down the aisle. Practical and non-judging, it made me feel positive about the steps I can make to reduce drinking and improve my physical and mental health. What I enjoyed most about his pragmatic approach is that he explains the impact of ANY amount of alcohol consumption. Alcohol - a simple molecule that can induce so much pleasure and pain at the same time… As the most harmful drug in the UK, it has a profound and wide-reaching impact on our health and on society at large. Alcohol is a huge dopamine stimulant, which is in part why it feels so good, and why we might crave it when stressed.

Other chapters of the book cover “AAA: alcohol, accidents and aggression”, mental health, and children and alcohol. So much so that if you drink enough, a man can become feminised, developing male breasts, losing muscle mass and facial hair, and seeing reductions in sperm count. David Nutt discusses alcohol in the same kind of context that a drug harm reduction NGO would inform about any substance, by framing it as: drinkers should mindfully find the minimum required dosage, for the pleasurable effects they seek. Plus get our latest news and special offers for members to choose better drinks, change your drinking and connect with others. This section starts with an exercise to think about the type of drinker you are: social, fitting in, looking for excitement, or coping/self-medicating.With only 9% of Brits informed about basics, such as the drink driving limit, Nutt instead asks us to be more personally responsible for our levels of drinking and aware of the harm we could cause both ourselves and others. Cocaine and alcohol produce a new chemical coca-ethylene which stays in the body for longer and makes it more toxic to the heart which is what causes so many heart attacks. A chapter on quality of life lists some possible positive effects of drinking, such as increased creativity and confidence, and help with shakes and tremors due to stress and some medical conditions.

invites you to question not only the normalcy of these actions in our lives, but how, personally and through policy, we can reduce the harm caused by drinking. Can we go back a bit and, and can explain quite briefly – you’ve written a book of 300 pages on the topic – what makes alcohol at any level of consumption so risky? Finally this book finishes up with a section on how to identify if you or a loved one has a problem with alcohol and what tactics and tools you can use to beat addiction. professor David Nutt, is director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London.The risk for the different harms of alcohol varies quite a lot, but the truth is if the risks of cancer is increased by even a glass of wine a year, or two glasses of wine a year, then you really are in a situation where you can say there is no absolutely safe limit. However, if you turn the GABA system on too much, it can switch off parts of the brain you don’t want switched off, for example your judgement or even your consciousness. And if you want to maximize your health benefits from red wine on your cardiovascular system, if you are a 65-year-old man, then it’s about half a glass of wine a day. So if you look very objectively, the threshold for alcohol consumption per year to have zero risk of cancer from alcohol would be one glass of wine a year. My continuing trend of reading health, brain/body, or psych types book lead me to this one, which outlines the relationship of alcohol to an individual.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.However, I was pleased that Professor Nutt was inclusive and did include science references to Asia and Africa along with Europe, the UK, and the USA. So, if you've ever been curious about the science of alcohol and how it truly impacts our health, this book is a must-read. There’s one thing I need to say about the rich versus poor argument, because it’s true across the world.

But the second thing is there’s more profit, so that the French wine industry is now more profitable because each bottle is making more money because it’s better quality. also what happens when people retire and find themselves with disposable income and with more time to drink and no reason to put on the brakes. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Although one section is subtitled, "Hangover Cures: What's the Evidence," implying he's presenting information and not recommendations, since this is a self-help book, I might assume that most readers aren't processing the "What's the Evidence" portion of the heading and merely focusing on the promise of "Hangover Cures. its's absurd that coming of age should still be about alcohol," and "Would you take a new drug if you were told it would increase your risk of cancer, dementia, heart disease, or that it would shorten your life?Definitely recommend the read, whether one is curious about their own relationship with the drug, or the issue as a general cause area for an improved society. Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that.