Continuous Binge Drinking and Your Immune System

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Having fun and drinking all the booze you can in a day could be fun once in a while. But if you're doing more frequently, you may be risking your body to be more susceptible to diseases as what recent studies has found out.

We already know that too much alcohol won't bring any good, Gyongyi Szabo and his colleagues verifies this with their study pointing out that heavy drinking can worsen the effects of illnesses and weaken our immune system's defenses against further infections.

The researcher from University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester exposed white blood cells to chemicals that mimics viruses and bacteria. Half of the cells were intoxicated with the same alcoholic levels found on the blood stream for drinking five alcoholic drinks in a day for 7 days.

White blood cells are parts of our immune system that directly fights infections and foreign materials in our body. The research found out that alcohol plays a vital part in weakening the white blood cells' defenses, noting that heavy drinking can lower the body's immunity to serious viruses such as HIV, Hepatitis C and many more. They warn heavy drinkers to beware of damage they may be inflicting to their body. The researchers hope to follow the research to see how alcohol affects flu vaccines.

Heavy drinking was link to many health deteriorating effect to our body. Researchers from the University of Santiago Compostela in Spain earlier this year revealed that binge drink can strong affect cognitive functions. Students who drank more than five alcoholic drink for men and four servings for women, scored in lower on a verbal learning test compared to alcohol-free students. Another study directly linked heavy drinking to heart diseases, according to decade long study in Northern Ireland and France which was published last year.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism or NIAAA suggests that two drinks for men and one for women is the safest amounts of alcohol that can be consumed on a daily basis without or little health-related problems. A serving of alcohol is set at 12-ounce beer, 5-ounce wine, or 1.5 ounces of an 80-proof drink.

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