Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Health

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And if you drink a great deal of alcohol and the GABA system is maximally potentiated, it turns off your brain, in the same way as an anaesthetic, so you stop breathing.

Sensible book with advice doled out in spades; the style is evidently from an academic who set himself to writing for the general public and he only partially succeeds; the overall tone remains a bit dispassionate and geared towards the one-way transfer of hard earned scientific knowledge on the subject; the text would have benefitted from a more narrative approach; more storytelling. I didn't realize that in the old days, beer and wine had much less alcohol in them than they do today (3-4% vs 5-8% today for beer). By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. Me ha gustado mucho el libro, explica muy bien el cómo actúa el alcohol en el cuerpo y los efectos que produce.Using any drug, including alcohol, over long periods of time alters our brains, and these changes then make it very difficult to stop using the drug. The author shares strategies to help people who aren't dependent get the maximum benefits with the minimum harm. I get the book means well, but really, it avoids the depth and profundity of alcohol’s dangers to both drinkers and their loved ones, and the pain associated for all. He then spent two years as Chief of the Section of Clinical Science in the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in NIH, Bethesda, USA.

It wont stop me drinking but it whad made me more aware of how much or how little I drink at any one time. Areni Global is a company incorporated as private limited by shares, with a declared non-for-profit mission, with its registered office situated in England and Wales. Professor David Nutt cuts through the noise to explain the long- and short-term effects of alcohol, makes complex science digestible and takes readers through its journey inside the body and brain from the very first sip. So, if you've ever been curious about the science of alcohol and how it truly impacts our health, this book is a must-read.

you have a seven-times-increased risk for a suicide attempt soon after drinking alcohol, and this increases to 37 times after heavy use of alcohol. Nutt's good on the health issues of alcohol, including more details on cancer than I had known before. also what happens when people retire and find themselves with disposable income and with more time to drink and no reason to put on the brakes.

We exist to answer the big questions of our time and to address our industry’s major threats, including regulatory, environmental, and societal changes. professor David Nutt, is director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London. How does the risk of cancer from alcohol compare to, say, the risk of cancer from smoking or obesity or something?When it comes to the heart, "Even light to moderate drinking raises your risk of an irregular heartbeat, cardiac arrythmia, which may make you feel faint and short of breath. In the US, an estimated 88,000 people (approxi- mately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States, behind tobacco and poor diet and physical inactivity. These were the places I expected to see citations, like throughout the rest of the book, but where documentation for an assertion was lacking.

The beginning is the "why" alcohol does what it does, and the second half is the "how" one can reduce or eliminate alcohol use.

His writing style reminds me of when I have a paper due at midnight and it’s 7pm so I just find a shit ton of sources I can cite and paraphrase what’s in the sources without any additional insight. He is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs. Where people have looked at alcohol intake in other cultures where you don’t have all those other factors, then it’s pretty hard to show that alcohol is beneficial. He was the clinical scientific lead on the 2004/5 UK Government Foresight initiative "Brain science, addiction and drugs" that provided a 25-year vision for this area of science and public policy.