A Good Time to Swear Off Alcohol

[jedishrfu]

In this article, new research suggests a clear connection between the ability to digest Alcohol and DNA damage done to your stem cells:

Alcohol can cause irreversible genetic damage to the body’s reserve of stem cells, according to a study that helps explain the link between drinking and cancer.

The research, using genetically modified mice, provides the most compelling evidence to date that alcohol causes cancer by scrambling the DNA in cells, eventually leading to deadly mutations.

During the past decade, there has been mounting evidence of the link between drinking and the risk of certain cancers.

https://www.theguardian.com/science...sible-genetic-damage-to-stem-cells-says-study

Many who suffer from Asian Flush should pay particular attention to this message and curb your drinking habits:

 

[.Scott]

The study ties the damage to the alcohol metabolite, acetaldehyde.

 

[Psinter]

But aren't mice studies accurately representative of mice and not humans?

 

[Vanadium 50]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I guess the key is to find the amount that will only harm you once you are at an age where something else will likely kill you anyway.

 

[jedishrfu]

But aren't mice studies accurately representative of mice and not humans?

While this is true. It is also true that we share many processes and molecular machinery with mice and researchers use that to gauge how it might affect us.

https://www.livescience.com/32860-why-do-medical-researchers-use-mice.html

 

[symbolipoint]

Studies done on mice? Cell damage due to acetaldehyde?

Stop drinking all alcoholic beverages now! Alcohol drinking interferes with intellectual effort and ruins most of your academic studying and judgement.