Name: Alcohol is AMAZING
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Alcohol is the most harmful substance on earth.

Every year, it kills more people than terrorism, wars, homicide, and car accidents combined.

It injures tens of millions in accidents, violence, and crime, while keeping hundreds of millions trapped in disease.

If it didn't exist already, inventing it today would be unthinkable.

And yet, more than 2 billion people drink.

Most of us can't imagine a barbecue without beer, a wedding without wine, or a fancy soiree without champagne.

We have a drink at the weekend because it's the weekend, but

also after work, when we're stressed and when we're relaxed, sad and happy at home and outside.

Why do we cling so much to the thing that harms us the most?

You after one drink Alcohol is a biological weapon that yeast produces during fermentation to wipe out its competition in alcoholic drinks.

It's mixed with water and flavored with everything from fruits to caramel.

With just one sip, sextillions of alcohol molecules flood your stomach and small intestine.

From there, they head to your liver, your primary detox center, and to other organs like the brain.

But your liver can only process about one sip of beer every five minutes.

So unless you drink really slowly, it will become overwhelmed while an ever growing swarm floods your brain.

The legion of intruders fills your brain and starts messing with neurotransmitters and receptors.

Their sabotage is so complex that scientists aren't fully sure yet about all their mechanisms.

But we know that alcohol numbs your neurons, making them slower and disrupts their communication.

This has several it sedates you, melting away tension and stress.

It stuns your prefrontal cortex, your center for decision making and self control, making you more disinhibited and prone to say or do things that you normally wouldn't.

Feel good Molecules deeply tied to human connection.

The chemicals that we produce when we laugh, sing, or dance with others, and

which help us turn fleeting moments into shared memories.

So after a drink or three, the world doesn't only feel lighter, it feels lighter with others.

The invisible walls of insecurity around us begin to soften, and

you find yourself becoming a little more you less afraid to talk, laugh, sing, or share joys and sorrows.

Conversations flow easier, smiles last a little longer, and strangers can become friends or lovers more easily.

So for a while, it feels like the weight of being human isn't yours to carry alone.

Alcohol sits at a sweet spot of gentle relaxation, mild courage, and

friendly companionship that Makes it the perfect social lubricant.

Your body on regular drinking for billions.

These rounds become more frequent over time.

The occasional drink becomes a weekly habit, Then a ritual every other day.

And there's always this buddy who drinks way more and has a perfectly normal life.

But as the rounds add up over years, the damage builds up.

The alcohol molecule can dissolve in water and fat, which allows it to invade almost every cell and tissue.

And when your body breaks it down, it transforms into acetaldehyde, A chemical that's even more toxic than alcohol itself.

And that wreaks havoc on your tissues, cells and DNA in your brain.

This shrinks your neurons and severs their connections, Making it harder for different parts of the brain to communicate.

As your brain withers, your memories fade, your thinking slows down, and your risk of dementia increases.

The younger you are, the wider the damage.

And the more you drink in one go, the worse you'll make it.

The human brain isn't fully wired until your mid-20s, so drinking before that age is like smashing wet cement before it's set.

20 year olds, Blackout drinking episodes have been found to cause mental problems for up to a year.

Forgetting why you entered a room or having difficulty learning new things.

Binge drinking in late adolescence is also one of the highest risk factors for early onset dementia.

Just as smoking hits your lungs, Alcohol causes eight types of cancer, basically everywhere, from mouth to bowel, plus breast cancer in women.

Here, risks start at an average consumption of less than one glass of wine per day.

Worldwide, alcohol causes around 740,000 new cancer cases per year, leading to 400,000 deaths.

Alcohol disrupts fat metabolism, causing fat to build up in your liver cells.

But this often has no symptoms, so you may go on drinking.

As your liver slowly turns to fat, swells with inflammation, and starts to fail.

Your liver is full of scars and barely functioning.

This might take over 10 years, but once it appears, it's largely irreversible.

Every year, 600,000 people die because they have a liver destroyed by alcohol.

Drinking also weakens your heart, raises blood pressure, and

increases the risk of stroke and thrombosis, leading to another 500,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases every year.

In terms of looks, too, alcohol damages cells around your body, including your skin, which looks older sooner.

And not only does alcohol contain a lot of calories itself, It Also makes many people very hungry.

Drinking is a huge source of weight gain and increases the risk of obesity, opening the door to a cascade of other health problems.

When scientists crunch these numbers, they see that health problems can start at about one beer a day, and

that the chances of premature death start rising significantly at around three beers a day for men and less than two for women.

If this sounds like a lot to you, maybe look around.

In the eu, the average man drinks the equivalent of almost three beers a day.

Similar figures apply to much of the world, especially the West.

There's no other drug we consume that gets so close to the edge of harm.

Alcohol causes a staggering amount of accidents.

The numbness and disinhibition of a few drinks can morph you into a clumsy critter eager to take really stupid risks on a balcony, at sea, or on the road.

Every year, alcohol fueled accidents kill 500,000 people, 300,000 of them in car accidents.

But more than half of the people who died in those crashes didn't drink.

Alcohol is also one of the major causes of violence, from fights in the pub to domestic abuse, other brutal assaults and murder.

essentially 50% of all violent crime and sexual assault is committed by drunk offenders.

Each year, alcohol fueled crime kills about 100,000 people.

That's a city like Pisa being massacred every year by a drunk mobile.

And then you have all the non lethal victims.

In England alone, 500,000 adults are injured every year in accidents caused by drunk people.

Another 800,000 get hurt in violent attacks by drunk offenders.

Zoomed out to the rest of the drinking world.

This means that every year, dozens of millions are physically harmed by someone else's drinking.

The most innocent bystanders are the 600,000 babies born every year with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, A devastating lifelong condition caused by drinking during pregnancy.

Alcohol is nothing short of a global catastrophe.

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