Drinking alcohol causes cancer and irreversible damage to your DNA

The supposed benefits of alcohol are zero and its detrimental effects, many, such as cancer and DNA damage of stem cells. This is what the last study done in mice, which actually does nothing but ratify the relationship between alcohol and cancer.

This relationship has already been tested on several occasions. The Spanish association against Cancer even warns of this on its website, but until now we did not know the consequences of drinking alcohol in the stem cells, those in charge-among other things-to generate new tissues to repair those that are destroyed.

Apparently, as researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) have shown, drinking alcohol on a regular basis or even on time erodes the defense of cells, particularly the two types of enzyme that defend them from external aggressions. Once they have been deactivated, alcohol attacks the DNA until it destroys the cell.

It is a brief summary of all the conclusions of the study, but it serves to illustrate the way of acting of the alcohol in the organism, an irreversible damage that can prevent the recovery of some injuries or even the production of blood, because for both things It takes a steady stream of stem cells.

In addition, it may also increase the risk of paceding certain types of cancer. The best example, quoted by the Guardian, is that of certain Asian populations that lack one of the two aforementioned defensive enzymes. Among these people there is a prevalence of esophageal cancer.

The responsible for all this is a metabolite called acetaldehyde, very present in ethanol.

Almost equally important that the great conclusion reached by this study is the fact that the damage occurs since the first drop of alcohol is drunk. This means that there is no safe or healthy consumption and that from the first "dram" you are irreversibly damaging your body.