Women and Alcohol: Dangerous Liaisons

Female alcoholism - the phenomenon is complex and ambiguous. Numerous observations show that experience alcohol dependence can be equally representative of all social groups. But here's the paradox: in today's society than a woman more successful and better educated, more often applied to the glass.

Medical statistics show: about 50 percent of the women for the first time drink alcohol   (meaning spirits) under the age of 20 years. This is partly due to the space ethical and aesthetic education - the problem, by the way, not only in our country. Partly as early attached to alcohol contribute to characteristics of female psychology. For the fairer sex is characterized by high emotions, sensibility. Among women more often than men are found closed nature, sensitive, hysterical, excitable, suspicious. Often, women simply do not know how to deal with these complexes and is that looking for a way to relax and disturbing effects of alcohol. And with age the habit of just taking root.

Genes and alcohol

That is, the intensity with which men and women drink alcohol   and respond to it, is largely influenced by heredity. Physicians, for example, well known so-called flash syndrome, implying low enzyme activity atsetaldegidrogenazy - one of the two hepatic enzymes involved in the degradation and processing of alcoholic components. In this syndrome in humans there is a very high sensitivity to alcohol, where even very small doses of alcohol cause specific sensations.

Most often such a problem faced by Asians. Therefore, the gene responsible for the "lazy" atsetaldegidrogenazu, called the Asian and the opposite option, processing alcohol quickly and without consequences - European.

The Russian media Asian gene   - About 40% of the population. But if you want to know whether there is Asian gene   directly into your body, you can test yourself in our days is not such a difficult task. This analysis is done in many genetic laboratories in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Not be discounted and the genes that are responsible for neuropsychiatric function. Simply put, for our ability to experience pleasure. With these genes, the body can produce pleasure hormones - dopamine, serotonin, endorphins. The release of hormones into the blood pleasure occurs, for example, during sex or by absorption of delicious food. Alcohol, too, provokes a similar hormonal surge. For this reason habits are drawn by those who in everyday life loses joy. The need for the pleasures of the body at physiological well - in such moments it happens to reboot. And alcohol - perhaps the most accessible way to almost anyone to get a much-needed joy hormones.

Alcohol addiction   occurs if the genes responsible for the production of these hormones, there are defects - that is, the same serotonin and endorphins appear in short supply or too quickly "resolve" excreted. Then a person drinks in order to maintain these genes in normal "working" condition.

Alcohol and women: the danger zone

A woman can not drink on an equal basis with men - so ordered nature. To break down alcohol, need water and moisture in the female body is 10% less than men. That is, at the same dose drunk ethanol concentration in the blood of women will always be higher than in men, even if the height and weight is the same.

In addition, the alcohol concentration in the blood are able to influence female sex hormones. They weaken already mentioned enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, ethanol while accelerating the processing in the liver. As a result of drunk alcohol cleaved more slowly than men, but quickly affects the liver.

Especially careful in dealing with alcohol women   It must be in the second half of the menstrual cycle. - At this time the alcohol is rapidly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract into the bloodstream, thereby increasing the toxic effect.

The psychological factor - another weak spot for women. Most of them dominates right brain responsible for emotion, empathy, intuition. Alcohol addiction For example, often develops in married women who are prone to codependency. They can ispytvat guilt over bad moods and failures of her husband, bear the responsibility for the atmosphere in the family, trying to become indispensable. If there is such a woman partner, groggy, she is at risk of becoming his equal.

Another fairly common psychological scenario - the behavior of a woman who grew up in a family with drinking father. Her childhood formirutesya morbid idea of ​​spirits, which it considers the worst evil. And if her husband becomes a man who saw no great sin to drink a glass of vodka after work or a glass of beer, it sounds the alarm: the guard, alcoholism Family at risk! There is a conflict, alcohol becomes a topic in the family taboo, infernal. And just in the forbidden fruit - tempting for growing in her children. Becoming teenagers, it is the children of these families first try alcohol - and they have a high risk of addicted to it.

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