Why are some people addicted to alcohol? Drinking is a common thing for everyone. Moderate drinking is good for health, but long-term heavy drinking is harmful to health and will cause alcohol dependence. The following are the reasons why some people are addicted to alcohol.
Why are some people addicted to alcohol? 1 There are many alcoholics all over the world. The right medicine can cure the disease. To solve the problem of drinking like a dog, we must first find out why some people drink like dogs.
Alcoholism is an alcohol dependence. Alcohol dependence is a strong desire for alcohol caused by long-term drinking, so that once people stop drinking, a series of symptoms will appear, which mostly happens to men.
The thirst of human or animal is controlled by hypothalamus under the cerebral cortex. Scientists suspect that some people drink too much, which may also be related to the hypothalamus. In order to confirm this conjecture, they did an experiment: first, let a group of mice drink a wine with an alcohol content of 20 pa for a month in a row, and cultivate this group of mice into "drunken immortals" among mice.
Then, the "thirst center" of hypothalamus in some rats was destroyed. In this way, there are three groups of mice: group A is a "drunken mouse" whose thirst center has not been destroyed; Group B is a "drunken rat" whose thirst center has been destroyed; Group C was normal mice. Then three groups of mice were kept dry for several days. Then put water and alcohol in front of them and let them get what they need. Results The mice in group A chose alcohol without exception. Mice in group B and group C disdain alcohol.
Therefore, scientists believe that the "addiction center" of alcoholics is likely to be transformed from the "thirst center" stimulated by alcohol for a long time. After the "alcohol center" was formed, it constantly issued instructions to "demand" alcohol, driving "drunkards" to binge drink, which may be the reason why some people are addicted to alcohol. This explanation needs more in-depth scientific argumentation. If so, then, in addition to ideological and will efforts, it is very likely that in the future, through brain surgery, alcoholics will be thoroughly remoulded and then give up drinking.
Of course, drinking has a lot of pressure and knowledge, and it is not advisable to be addicted to alcohol, but moderate drinking is still beneficial. If you master the tricks of drinking and drink scientifically, it will not only harm your health, but also benefit your health.
Why do some people drink too much? Why are some people addicted to alcohol?
Alcoholism is actually an alcohol dependence. Alcohol dependence is a strong desire for alcohol caused by long-term excessive drinking, so that drinking can not be controlled. Once you stop drinking, you will have a series of symptoms such as palpitation, fidgeting, limb tremor, nausea, vomiting and sweating.
Scientists believe that long-term heavy drinking will lead to changes in the central nervous system of the brain and form a "reward neural circuit" related to alcohol. After the formation of this "reward mechanism", the instructions of "asking for" alcohol were issued continuously, which drove "drunkards" to binge drink regardless of time.
What are the hazards of alcoholism?
Once people have "alcohol dependence", it is difficult to reverse it. Excessive drinking will change people's diet structure and lead to malnutrition. The nervous system will also be damaged to varying degrees, which is easy to cause complications such as mental disorders. If you suddenly reduce or stop drinking, you will soon have a withdrawal reaction, which may be fatal. With the longer drinking time, the greater the amount of drinking, the more serious the abnormal nerve conduction velocity of limbs, and the greater the nerve damage.
A large number of clinical trials have confirmed that alcohol is the most direct and greatest harm to the liver. It can lead to degeneration and necrosis of liver cells. Excessive drinking will kill a large number of liver cells and cause a sharp increase in transaminase; If you drink a lot of alcohol for a long time, it will easily lead to alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and even alcoholic cirrhosis. Among alcohol addicts, the incidence of cirrhosis is 0. 10 times higher than that of the general population. In addition, the incidence of gastritis, peptic ulcer, esophageal varices, esophageal cancer, cardiomyopathy and acute and chronic pancreatitis in alcohol addicts is also higher than that in ordinary people.
Drinking is not advisable, but good health is true. For everyone's health, we should strictly control the amount of drinking, and don't drink too much.
Why do some people drink too much? 3. Alcoholism is harmful to health.
1, patients with gastric diseases.
For people with stomach problems, the function of the stomach itself is very poor. Intake of alcohol will lead to gastric mucosal damage, make the original dysfunctional stomach worse, and make the original stomach disease more serious. This may lead to a series of complications, such as gastric ulcer.
2. Patients with liver disease
After entering the body, most alcohol needs to be metabolized by the liver. For patients with liver disease, alcohol cannot be decomposed after entering the body. When alcohol accumulates too much in the body, it may cause alcoholism, and when alcohol cannot be decomposed in time, it will also affect normal liver cells. As a result, the original liver disease became more and more serious.
3, gout patients
For gout patients, the daily diet needs to limit the intake of purine. In this case, you can't drink alcohol, because beer contains a lot of purines and nucleic acids, which will cause gout attacks after drinking.
4. Diabetic patients.
Many diabetics think that drinking beer is not important because the alcohol content in beer is relatively low. However, the heat generated by alcohol will affect the normal diet control of patients. Excessive drinking during medication can lead to hypoglycemia, which is more dangerous.
5. Breast-feeding women
Lactating women can't drink alcohol. To put it bluntly, the baby and the baby mother eat and drink the same. Alcohol is very harmful to the baby's development. Beer is made from barley and other raw materials. Barley malt has the function of shrinking milk, thus affecting normal breastfeeding.
What harm does excessive drinking do to your health?
First of all, we should know that alcohol is a substance that can affect all organs. After it enters the human body, it will affect the stomach, liver and other organs, and increase the risk of diseases such as stomach disease, liver cirrhosis and pancreatic cancer.
In addition to the influence on body organs, alcohol also has an influence on our brain. Paralyze our brains and inhibit the normal function of the nerve center. Long-term drinking can easily lead to alcoholism, limited normal thinking of patients, impaired memory and other symptoms, and drinking will also have an impact on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In a word, excessive drinking is harmful to health, so enough is enough.