Drink to celebrate the New Year, but be careful that alcohol can harm your body! In the new year, let us learn to refuse alcohol

Whenever we have a holiday party, some of my friends will become drunk performance artists, especially when they are the competitive ones who can't drink but insist on drinking. How can we describe their alcohol tolerance? Oh! Their ambitions are too high.

Not to mention the confusing behaviors of humans after being drunk. The most common one is to fall down on the roadside, muttering, "If you are not drunk, I am not drunk, who will sleep on the curb?" Use bananas to make phone calls, use slippers as microphones, and some advanced ones can even insert charging cables into chocolate.

The fundamental reason is that his own stupid reaction to alcohol leads to a series of puzzling behaviors.

Originally, I made a promise before every party, vowing not to drink anymore, but how come I started drinking beer and white wine together? How come I lost my self-control?

This is because alcohol does not need to be digested when it goes down the esophagus into the stomach. It goes directly to the head, shutting down the inhibitory switch in the brain, and gradually reducing self-control. One cup opens the appetite, two cups are good for the kidneys, and three or five cups go into the stomach, making the face flushed. Alcohol enters the blood circulation, and the blood vessels in the body expand, and all kinds of senses become sensitive. The body becomes hot and sweaty, and the brain also releases a lot of hormones that make you feel excited and reckless, such as norepinephrine and adrenaline (adrenaline is the reason why Edward in "Twilight" deceived Bella that he could stop a car with his bare hands.) Although it is not in line with reality, it also shows to a certain extent that the role of these hormones is very large. At the same time, the brain will also release dopamine, making you feel that the happiness at this time is incomparable.

At this point, alcohol has occupied every corner of the body, especially in the liver, waiting to be broken down. The liver is the main organ for alcohol metabolism. In the liver, alcohol is metabolized by "alcohol dehydrogenase" to acetaldehyde, and then metabolized to acetic acid under the catalytic action of "acetaldehyde dehydrogenase". Acetic acid will quickly decompose into carbon dioxide and water, releasing the heat needed by the human body to complete the metabolism of alcohol. However, most people lack acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, so a lot of alcohol can only be converted into acetaldehyde and remain in the body. The brother of acetaldehyde is formaldehyde. Think about the harm of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde is not weaker than formaldehyde. Acetaldehyde can enter the cell to destroy genes, cause damage fundamentally, and plant the seeds of tumors. As alcohol has long been listed as a first-class carcinogen by the World Health Organization, it is closely related to oral cancer, esophageal cancer, laryngeal cancer and other cancers. At present, 5.5% of cancers in the world are caused by alcohol, which means that one in every 18 cancers is caused by drinking.

At this time, the stomach is also full of alcohol, and gastric juice is constantly secreted to decompose alcohol. As a result, it kills 100 enemies but loses 120 of its own. Excessive gastric juice makes people feel nauseous and want to vomit, so every toilet is the final destination of drunk people. Not only do drunk people want to vomit, but they also want to urinate, because alcohol decomposition produces a lot of water, and the antidiuretic hormone in the brain is also suppressed, so whether to vomit first and then urinate or urinate first and then vomit depends entirely on the choice of the drunk person (dog head funny). At the same time, because alcohol constantly damages the nerve cells, visual cells, and muscle cells in the body, and blocks the receptors, the previous happy feeling like a fairy is replaced by fatigue, and it may even suppress your memory, so "blackouts" become a matter of course.

Wow, this reminds me of an old man in Japan who loves drinking and photography. He usually walks around aimlessly with a bottle of wine and takes photos. One day when he wakes up and looks at his camera, he realizes, oh, he ate this last night.

The uncle said that one morning when he woke up he only felt pain in his feet, but he had no memory of it at all. So he opened his camera and found a photo of himself in an ambulance, drinking the strongest liquor and being sent to the best hospital for emergency treatment.

Even if you wake up the next morning and the alcohol has been metabolized, the subsequent effects will always be there, such as headaches, dizziness, stomach burning pain, hypoglycemia, etc. It's really like drinking to forget your sorrows, the more you drink, the more sorrowful you become, and it's useless.

China's drinking culture has a long history. As the first country in the world to use koji to brew wine, drinking has long become an indispensable social tool in Chinese society. No matter how strong one's will is, it cannot resist the saying "If you don't drink, you look down on me!" However, being able to drink and being toasted is not something to be boasted about. On the contrary, the harm caused by drinking is much greater than we think.

According to the Global Burden of Disease Study (2017), the number of deaths caused by drinking in China reached 670,300 in 2017, 1.82 times that of 1990, of which 97% were men. The 670,000 deaths were only caused by drinking as a total cause of death. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, in 2016, 6.1% of male deaths in China were caused by alcohol, because there are so many problems caused by drinking.

Alcohol can cause alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic cirrhosis and other diseases. In severe cases, it can be accompanied by complications such as severe ascites, renal insufficiency, gastrointestinal bleeding, etc. It can also cause chronic alcohol poisoning and alcoholic dementia. In addition, high blood pressure and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems are also related to drinking, which can increase the risk of sudden coronary heart disease, heart failure, intracranial hemorrhage, etc.

In addition, drinking a lot of alcohol can stimulate pancreatic secretion, easily leading to acute pancreatitis and an increased risk of gastric ulcers. According to statistics, the biggest problem caused by Chinese people drinking alcohol is hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic stroke, that is, stroke. Alcohol acts on the smooth muscles of cerebral blood vessels to cause spasms, platelet aggregation and activation, thereby increasing thromboxane (TX-A2) in the human body, which in turn causes stroke. Among middle-aged and elderly men, stroke caused by drinking alcohol is particularly serious. At present, stroke has also become the number one killer of Chinese people's health.

In addition to stroke, Chinese men may also develop tuberculosis, lower respiratory tract infections and other diseases due to drinking. It can be said that alcohol damages physical health from head to toe.

Excessive drinking can also lead to drunkenness and may cause a range of problems including traffic accidents, self-harm and fighting.

Although an old Chinese saying goes "a little wine can soothe one's mood", we should still try not to drink if we can. If we really have to drink, I have prepared many reasons to avoid drinking below. Please use them according to the situation!

I'm taking cefuroxime.

I drove here today.

I haven’t been sleeping well recently and I’m taking sleeping pills.

If you have a cold and take ibuprofen, you can't drink alcohol.

You should not drink alcohol right after taking blood pressure medication.