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02.05.2004

As soon as doctors began to say that moderate regular alcohol consumption improves the condition of the heart and blood vessels, it turned out that it harms the brain, and in addition - the blood vessels.

Employees of a psychiatric clinic at the University of the German city of Erlangen found that alcohol disrupts the processing in the body of the amino acid homocysteine, which is harmful to nerve cells. It is obtained in the process of metabolism as an intermediate product and is soon processed into harmless compounds. But alcohol blocks this transformation, and homocysteine gradually accumulates in the brain tissue.

Occasional and infrequent drinking raises homocysteine levels only slightly, but drinking regularly, even in small amounts, damages nerve cells. In addition, homocysteine makes the walls of blood vessels looser, rougher, and then cholesterol plaques are more easily formed on them.

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