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Alcohol appears to have dose-dependent effects. Excess intake is clearly detrimental, but use and abuse are entirely different. The latest recommendation in oncology is that zero intake is best. In the real world, people have more than cancer to consider though. Add the study below that shows less abnormal protein aggregation in the brain to your alcohol pro/con list. Perhaps we will be able to individualize our recommendations for alcohol intake someday.
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Alcohol consumers with liver pathology rarely display α-synuclein pathology A study examining postmortem brain and liver tissue from 100 individuals found a negative correlation between alcohol-induced liver damage and α-synuclein pathology in the brain. Individuals with severe liver damage were more likely to have Alzheimer's type II astrocytes, but dementia was less common in this group. These findings suggest that alcohol consumption may protect against Parkinson's disease although the sample size is small. This study should be replicated in other populations as well. The article was published in Acta Neuropathologica: https://lnkd.in/eR7AYj9B #genetics #genomics #precisionmedicine #genomicmedicine #brain #neurology #neurodegeneration #neuroscience #alzheimer #parkinson #als #ftd #alcohol #addiction #liver #hepatology #clinicalresearch #biomarkers #biotechnology #innovation #research #science #sciencecommunication
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3moVery informative 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻