What's the harm of long-term drinking? What's the harm of alcohol
Sihaiwang: in our daily interpersonal relationships, wine plays a very important role. China's five thousand years of culture, wine culture has more than three thousand years, can be seen in the importance of wine in interpersonal relations, moderate drinking is good for health, but a lot of drinking will cause great harm to the body, so let's see, what harm a lot of drinking to people!
On the brain
A small amount of wine can make people excited, make the brain in an active state, and has a certain sedative effect. But excessive alcohol intake will reduce people's attention and judgment, and even lead to slurred speech, blurred vision, loss of balance ability, and even more seriously affect people's memory.
The liver
Old people often say that drinking damages the liver. It seems that the damage to the liver caused by drinking is the most well-known. Wine is mainly metabolized and detoxified by the liver. It will increase the burden of the liver after entering the human body, seriously affect the normal function of the liver and cause liver damage. In the process of liver metabolism and detoxification, alcohol will also produce a carcinogenic substance acetaldehyde. Under normal circumstances, acetaldehyde will be decomposed by aldehyde dehydrogenase in the human body and discharged from the body. However, a large number of long-term drinking will cause acetaldehyde not to be completely decomposed, but remain in the body, which will bury a timing hidden danger to the body.
For the stomach and intestines
Drinking a lot of alcohol will cause bleeding in the stomach or damage the gastric and intestinal mucosa, resulting in gastritis, gastric ulcer, enteritis and other symptoms. Long-term drinking will reduce the digestive function of the stomach and the absorption of nutrients by the intestine, and make people metabolize and lose appetite.
The heart
Alcohol and its metabolites, acetaldehyde and acetate, can directly poison the heart muscle. People who drink a lot of alcohol for a long time may have heart enlargement, heart failure, palpitation, suffocation, arrhythmia and other symptoms, and even cardiac arrest.
For skin
Wine dilates blood vessels on the surface of your body. It not only makes your face red, but also causes your body tissues to overheat and hypothermia. It has obvious irritating side effects on the skin. It can dissolve the necessary phospholipid of human skin cell membrane, destroy the integrity of cells. Long term use will damage the skin and hair follicle cells, cause hair loss and allergic reactions, such as skin atrophy, hairiness, skin capillary expansion and other side effects.