Alcoholics are born?

Some people are born into the world to get more pleasure from alcohol than others, as it turned out during the study.   These "lucky" genetically programmed out to experience the joy of drinking - more complete than most other people.
  Scientists believe that such genetic program, causing some people to drink. However, this does not necessarily make a person alcoholic . Genetics and earlier managed to identify different genes that increase the risk of addiction to Alcoholism . But a group of researchers from the University of Colorado in rats found new genes related to those parts of the brain that are responsible for feelings of pleasure and encouragement.

Then, experiments were conducted to determine whether having a similar effect genes in the human body. One of the study participants Boris Tabakov says that some people who drink only moderately, may lose control of himself, and eventually turn into   Alcoholics .

On the other hand, as noted by Oleg Tabakov, there are people whose genes allow them to consume large amounts of alcohol fairly while avoiding dependence on alcohol . These people get more pleasure from drinking alcoholic beverages.

UK Department of Health strongly recommend that women consume no more than three units of alcohol a day and men no more than three or four units. According to international classification, one unit of alcohol are considered to be 10 grams of pure alcohol.

These studies are American scientists published in the journal BMC Biology.

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