2024-04-25 18:00:00
More than one in five adults (22%) in France exceed the recommended alcohol consumption limits. According to the National Cancer Institute, alcohol is the “second leading cause of cancer mortality” responsible for many cognitive disorders.
“For your health, alcohol is a maximum of two drinks per day and not every day”, recalls Public Health France in its prevention campaigns. However, according to the latest figures published by the health agency, 22% of French people admit to exceeding the recommended consumption limit. Alcohol is directly or indirectly responsible for more than sixty diseases such as stroke or certain cancers, especially of the liver, head or neck, breast, colon or rectum, oesophagus, stomach and pancreas. If ethanol is the second cause of avoidable death in France after tobacco, many are unaware of its long-term effects on the brain.
What are the long-term risks of alcohol on the brain?
If pure alcohol mainly affects the pancreas, heart and liver, “the brain remains the first organ to be affected”, notify Julien Bouveret, Director of Addiction Franche-Comté Group to France 3. “It is one of the most neurotoxic psychoactive substances known, with harmful effects as consumption increases and the higher the consumption. he specifies. ONE excessive consumption of alcohol can lead to significant cognitive disturbances: ADHD, concentration problems, loss of memory, abstraction skills and executive functions.
In some cases, and especially in people with alcoholism, these cognitive impairments can lead to a form of dementia called Korsakoff syndrome. This brain disease is characterized by a massive and irreversible change of memory, a tendency to confabulation to compensate for memory loss, mood disorders and other pathologies.
Can excessive alcohol consumption cause mental disorders?
Before reaching a stage of dementia or total loss of cognitive and executive functions, excessive alcohol consumption can be the cause of anxiety or depression. Information service for alcohol reminds us that drinking can suppress a temporary feeling of discomfort, but it is never a solution to get through a difficult period. If your consumption seems excessive to you, you isolate yourself, your sleep is disturbed… It is never too late to get help.
Marjorie RAYNAUD pour TF1 INFO
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