Healthy alcohol?: Moderate alcohol consumption can prevent diseases

Alcohol sold in times of Corona is particularly good.

Because Bars and Clubs are closed, repel the Germans instead, now in your own four walls, like on your health.

New research could now give the impression that alcohol could be actually good for your health.

Quite so easily but this does not say that.

Alcohol against auto-immune diseases

According to a team of researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) can be called, is the consumption of alcohol, excessive immune reactions inhibit.

Such excessive Reaktione of the immune system can lead, for example, autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Multiple sclerosis.

Alcohol is broken down, therefore, in the body to the active compound acetate, in the the T-helper cells are sensitive. So sensitive that it impairs the functioning of helper cells, which are responsible for ensuring that information between the different immune cells can be quickly and smoothly transferred.

The consumption of alcohol in moderate amounts acts but, obviously, not generally, but specifically on a certain type of immune cells, immune-repressive.

In clinical observations, it was found, therefore, that especially in patients with rheumatoid Arthritis significantly less disease occurred relapses when they consumed alcohol on a regular basis.

The work of the researchers is now to be according to the University, in the journal ‘Nature’published.

Negative think about the consequences of alcohol

It must not be forgotten that alcohol is basically poison for the body and leads to in the increased consumption in virtually all tissues and cell damage.

The German centre for addiction issues e. V. is called in this breath, many organ damage that can be caused by alcohol.

Only diseases of the liver, the pancreas, heart, nervous system and muscles, but also an increased risk of cancer, the long-term massive consumption of alcohol has been proven to be caused not include.

So Mario Zaiss admonished from the chair of Internal medicine III, FAU:”The negative effects of excessive alcohol consumption should also be in the light of these data, nevertheless, to be remembered always, even if moderate alcohol consumption show positive health effects, especially in the case of autoimmune diseases, a therapeutic immune tolerance can produce effect”

Sources

• Nature, V. Azizov, K., Dietel, M. M. Zaiss (2020): “Ethanol consumption inhibits TFH cell responses and the development of autoimmune arthritis”, retrieved on 06.05.2020: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15855-z
• DHS: “alcohol”, retrieved on 06.05.2020: https://www.dhs.de/suchtstoffe-verhalten/alkohol.html

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