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Our Brains Could Be Directly Involved in Processing Alcohol, Mouse Study Hints – ScienceAlert
Despite alcohol being a common recreational substance we’ve been drinking for at least 12,000 years, it seems we still don’t fully understand just what it does…
Despite alcohol being a common recreational substance we’ve been drinking for at least 12,000 years, it seems we still don’t fully understand just what it does inside our bodies… or brains, for that matter.
A new study in mice and human brain samples has looked at the enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase and discovered that it might break down a particular byproduct of alcohol digestion in the brain rather than just in the liver.
We do know that when you drink alcohol, your body jumps into action…
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