Two glasses of wine a day are dangerous for the brain

Do not rely on the experts' recommendations, which advised every day to drink a small amount of red wine. Even two drinks a day is enough to numbers produced by the brain cells was reduced by half.

Moderate alcohol consumption, which some scientists believe one of the most effective methods of prevention of cardiovascular diseases, in fact, represents a danger to human health. Two glasses of wine a day is reduced by 40-50% of the production of adult brain cells. In the long term, this threatens to memory impairment, as scientists have found from Rutgers University in the US. According to them, between moderate drinking and alcohol abuse   is a very fine line.

"Moderate drinking may go to alcohol abuse   so that people will not even notice it, - said study author Megan Anderson. - In the short term breach of some motor skills or functional problems generally imperceptible, but in the long infatuation alcohol affects the learning opportunities and memory. "

Dr. Anderson has proved this by constructing a human model of alcohol abuse using laboratory rats. It turned out that even valid for US drivers blood alcohol level at 0, 08% in rats have a negative effect on the production of brain cells. This level was not enough to affect the motor skills. But the number of nerve cells in the hippocampus of the brain of rats was reduced by 40%. This could have negative long-term effects on the adult brain, as new cells come into contact with other neurons to regulate brain health.

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