Alcohol-Avoid At All Times
Alcohol: Are you thinking the worst side effect of alcohol is empty calories or a little in moderation is fine? You might be saying “But I have read about the health benefits of wine reducing chances of stoke and anti-aging”. The next time you have a small drink of alcohol it is best to know the following: Whether it is mixed with grain, berries, grapes, or sugar it is still Ethyl alcohol. How do we justify that Ethyl alcohol is healthy for the body in any small dosage? Alcohol causes brain cell loss, breathing issues, ages us rapidly leaving us with horrible looking skin, dehydrates, stops the natural release of Human Growth Hormone, causes liver disease, highly acidic (tanking your imune system and drawing calcium from your bones), is a depressant, causes sleeping disorders, along with hurting a women’s reproductive system with minimal consumption.
For The Men Who Enjoy Sex…even moderate consumption of alcohol can lead to impotence, lost sensitivity, loss of sperm, and neuropathy. Why risk permanent loss of erection ability and sensation by continuing to drink?
Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is responsible for our growth through childhood years. It also helps with regeneration and repair of human tissue during our lifetime. When we are 30, people have spent most of their lives with considerably high levels of human growth hormone.
When we reach the age of 30, our HGH levels are only about 20 percent of their peak levels during childhood, and after the age of 30, they continue to decline at about 14 percent per decade, and often much more. By the time most of us are 30 years old, our bodies no longer produce enough HGH to repair all of the damage that is occurring in our bodies. As our HGH levels continue to decline, the damage that we call aging continues to accelerate. The more we drink alcohol the faster we age. Alcohol suppresses the natural release of HGH in our bodies. http://www.nd.edu/~ucc/muscle.html
How Alcohol Effects Muscle Development and Recovery
Everyone knows that working out while under the influence of alcohol is dangerous because of the likelihood of injury, but few athletes realize that consuming alcohol after a workout, practice, or competition can cancel out any physiological gains you might have received from such activities. Not only does long-term alcohol use diminish protein synthesis resulting in a decrease in muscle build-up, but even short-term alcohol use can impede muscle growth.
In order to build bigger and stronger muscles, your body needs sleep to repair itself after workouts. Because of alcohol's effect on sleep, however, your body is robbed of a precious chemical called "human growth hormone" or HGH. HGH is part of the normal muscle-building and repair process and the body's way of telling itself your muscle needs to grow bigger and stronger. Alcohol, however, can decrease the secretion of HGH by as much as 70 percent! Also, when alcohol is in your body, the production of a substance in your liver is triggered that is directly toxic to testosterone, a hormone essential to the development and recovery of your muscles.
Speeding the recovery of sore muscles and injuries is integral to optimal performance. Alcohol is a toxin-a toxin that travels through your bloodstream to every organ and tissue in your body, thus slowing your body's ability to heal itself. Additionally, once alcohol is absorbed through your stomach and small intestine and finally into your cells, it can disrupt the water balance in muscle cells, thus altering their ability to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is your muscles' source of energy. ATP provides the fuel necessary for your muscles to contract.
Be strong and turn down an offer of alcohol at parties, social events, dinners, or celebrations. Do we desire the feeling we get from alcohol more than we value a healthy life? Now people will always tell you everything in moderation. Would you take strychnine in moderation? How about drinking bleach in moderation, drinking gasoline in moderation (of course not)? They are dangerous poisons. Why would we choose to have a little poison here and there in moderation?
NOW FOR THE WOMEN
In human females, alcohol ingestion, even in amounts insufficient to cause major damage to the liver or other organs, may lead to menstrual irregularities. It is important to stress that alcohol ingestion even in amounts insufficient to cause permanent tissue damage, can disrupt the delicate balance critical to maintaining human female reproductive hormonal cycles and result in infertility. A study of healthy nonalcoholic women found that a substantial portion who drank small amounts of alcohol (i.e., social drinkers) stopped cycling normally and became at least temporarily infertile.
RYBACK, R.S. Chronic alcohol consumption and menstruation. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 238(20):2143, 1977.
Research shows that alcohol use negatively affects puberty in females, disrupts normal menstrual cycling and reproductive function, and alters hormonal levels in postmenopausal women. These effects of alcohol use can also have important consequences for bone health.
Alcohol markedly disrupts normal menstrual cycling in female humans. Alcoholic women are known to have a variety of menstrual and reproductive disorders, from irregular menstrual cycles to complete cessation of menses, absence of ovulation, and infertility (reviewed in Mello et al. 1993).
Is Alcohol such as Red Wine Really Good For Me?
Be careful of the marketing propaganda research studies you read about wine because they are trying to make you feel good about justifying consumption in order to purchase a product that has a high mark up. They are usually not telling the entire story. Research is done to boost sales, and the outcome of the research is already pre-determined before the study begins. No one goes into research with a funding of an extra couple million dollars with an open ended outcome. For example…Wine helps with anti-aging and reduces strokes is one scientific study. Or the new study on Resveritrol that says this is anti-aging...but you would have to drink 1000 bottles a day of wine to get the same amount in a pill? Resveritrol comes from raw grapes and you should never need to combine it with alcohol. They found resvertirol doing a study on wine...not grapes. Why not do a study about eating raw grapes off the vine in anti-aging, and reducing stroke studies vs drinking wine? Well the answer is easy…. there is no big money source, mark-up, or demand for eating raw grapes like there is in wine mark-up. What about hiking our tush out to the vineyard and eating grapes off the vine? Now that would still be romantic and relaxing. The vineyard owner would probably allow it if you paid them the same as a bottle of wine. We will try to justify anything we can if we like eating or drinking it.
From Aliveraw.com:
“The wine industry, all at once says alcohol, which we know is deadly, no matter if it's in wine, or whisky, whatever the heck it's in, it is alcohol. It destroys cells. The fact of the matter is the astringent factor in grape seeds are different. The astringent factor cleans out the veins, and not the alcohol! Alcohol will pickle you. People do not seem to get alcohol is bad for you at any level. Listen to this, if you have a flaming alcoholic, what is destroyed in her body? The liver. So that means that if you only drink a little alcohol, it doesn't destroy a little bit of the liver? Think about this: You say you like wine. So you're going to want to buy the story that was sponsored by the alcohol industry. They always have these studies about every one or two years-normally six weeks before the holidays, because that's a good time for purchasing booze. So everyone’s preparing, but they don't want to feel guilty about drinking booze so the propaganda is spoken about at parties to make everyone feel better.
It's the beginning of November, and a study comes out from
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