Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Qzle1OfnhEI   Drinking ANY alcohol is associated with reduction of your functional brain volume, and the more you drink the worse the effect.  Epidemiologists and neuroradiologists at Britain’s University of Oxford make this assertion after studying 25,378 participants in the UK Biobank by magnetic resonance brain imaging.   As lifetime drinking escalates, all brain zones suffer.  Elevated blood pressure and body weight only aggravate this brain deterioration.  Binge drinking predictably makes the situation worse, and the frequency of benders from none to daily has an additive effect.   The scientists sobering conclusion is that there is no safe level of drinking when it comes to your brain health.  They recommend that current guidelines be revised.    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256931v1.full.pdf   #alcohol #brain #greymatter #hypertension #obesity x