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Biologists have revealed how alcohol damages the heart
Two groups of scientists have shown how alcohol causes atrial fibrillation and warned of the risks for women taking hormone replacement therapy
23 July 2024 -
Mixing energy drinks and alcohol in youth impaired brain function in adulthood
Alcohol consumption along with energy drinks at a young age affected brain function in the long term
03 July 2024 -
Binge mutation
American geneticists have found out that the cause of binge drinking can be mutations and damage in the gene GIRK3, disabling which in the body of mice turned them into binge alcoholics.
12 May 2015 -
What do alcoholism and pathological gluttony have in common?
People suffering from alcohol addiction have a great genetic predisposition to bulimia – bouts of uncontrolled gluttony, followed, as a rule, by attempts to cleanse the stomach and intestines of food eaten.
21 August 2013 -
Naltrexone helps drunks. But not everyone
The blocker of opioid receptors of the mu type in the brain – naltrexone – helps men with a certain mutation in the OPRM1 gene to refuse alcohol abuse, and women – even without such a mutation.
25 March 2011