Alcohol! How it Affects Us?

Alcohol is known as a good chemical man ever found. Small amount of ethanol alcohol from wine, beer or vodka will do magic in raising the HDL or the high density lipoprotein which is known as the good cholesterol which cleanse the body’s nerves and arteries with the bad cholesterol. But prolong absorption or drinking of large amount of these alcohol rich beverages is well established to be fatal.

As the glass of wine or strong alcoholic drink was raised the magic happens; the alcohol quickly kick in, irritating every surrounding tissue within the mouth and of the esophagus giving it a burning sensation as someone made a good gulp of this alcohol. This liquid passes through the stomach and quickly moves toward the small intestines and right to the bloodstreams. The alcohol rich blood passes to the liver towards the brain and within minutes the mind bends from continues surges of alcohol. The alcohol numbs the neuronal cells disrupting the electrical signals that send a message to the body. In the heart, the cardiac muscles moves fast, raising the blood pressure and pulses, straining the heart to cope with the alcohol depressive effect.

As alcohol drinking continues, alcohol concentrations in the blood builds up, storming the brain and its nerve affecting the central nervous system. Sudden changes occurs in the speech, blurring visions, inability for the body to get balance, reflexes comes late and judgment became haywire resulting to some serious accidents and some alcohol related incidents. With prolonged indulgence and ingestion of alcohol, a drinker would eventually lose consciousness and might suffer of die from respiratory failures and other similar alcohol related ailments.

Alcoholism increases the risk of heart diseases and form of cancers, especially the liver cancers common to drinkers. As the alcohol rich blood passes in the liver, the liver reacts as the body filter and chemical neutralizers. The alcohol was being metabolize by the liver into carbon dioxides and water which could be eliminated and push out naturally to balance the harmful chemical residues found in the body. This process strain the liver, leaving great amount of unmetabolize alcohol to stay in the liver which preempts the abnormal breakdown of fats which accumulates into the liver cells. This development is called as fatty liver which poses a considerable threat to our body filter – the liver. These fatty cells get enlarge in time and they eventually ruptured or burst leaving fibrous scar liver tissues known as cirrhosis which is a liver disease that blocks, disrupts and impedes the normal flow of blood in the arterial and veins of the liver. Also these fatty cells could grow into cysts which replace normal liver cells and this is known as liver tumor cancers.

Alcoholism is by far as one of the most potent and harmful chemical along with cigarette smoking and illegal drugs. And it is one of the great problems among all nations around the world because of its destructive effect on human lives and safety as well on the properties.

Alcoholism ranks as number one reason of the fatal highway accidents worldwide. Drunk drivers with impaired vision, slow reflexes, numbing mind to process judgment poses great danger in human lives among the public both motorist and pedestrians. In United States more than 45,000 died each year from fatal highway accidents, worldwide this number will reach nearly a million a year.

Most crimes like rapes, murders, massacres and numbers of heinous crimes are all alcohol related development. As alcohol reaches the brain it quickly affects our central nervous system, depressing the inhibitory and excitatory neurons that control our senses; speech, mood, impulses, which give us a kick. It creates in us the macho feeling which create lust and desire, the push as a fighter to inflict harm to others and the lost of rational to our inordinate actions. And this is what and where alcoholism is taking us and our kids.

Upon writing this article, a grandson of a political figure jump from the 30^th floor of a hotel killing him instantly, if you will turn on your t.v set the news will tell you of daily crimes committed by scrupulous drunkards, raping a 9 years old and strangling her with a barbed wire, more than 50 were killed and ambushed by lawless and mind distorted groups, riders dead in direct collision with other drunk drivers and so forth and so on. And until we realized how alcohol is doing in us then we will continue to witness all of these.