New Research: Binge Drinking Alters Your Genes

March 2nd, 2019

By Dr Joseph Mercola

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Enormous numbers of people are increasingly becoming binge drinkers — defined as consuming five or more drinks in two hours for men, or four or more for women — and researchers are trying to figure out why. To that end, Forbes reports that a new study shows that binge drinking actually alters your DNA, stunting genes in such a way that it makes it harder for you to not drink, in effect making you crave alcohol even more.

With more than 1 in 8 Americans now classified as alcoholic, this research sheds new light on what must be done to curb not just alcoholism, but binge drinking, even when the binge is only an occasional one. In essence, this condition has become a public health crisis that is too often glossed over, especially when you’re talking about that occasional binge.

One reason for this may be that while alcohol has become easier to access, addiction treatment serviceshave remained hard to reach. Plus, with so much emphasis on avoiding stigmatizing someone with an addiction of any kind, the focus has been more on tolerance than treatment.

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