How Alcohol Rewires Your Brain and Increases Cancer Risk by 40%! The Alcohol Doctor, Dr. Sarah Wakeman

the amount of alcohol it takes to begin to cause health related problems is much lower than you think. Every day. You'd be in what we call moderate risk. Which is associated with pretty much every form of cancer. So say that I'm drinking. If you're drinking two of those classes, we're talking like a forty percent increase. But even drinking that amount, your risk of breast cancer would increase by about five percent. This amount. Which for many people is very normal. So there's a lot of misinformation out there about how much should you drink, which I think people don't know. But I can take you through everything. So Dr. Sarah Wakeman is a Harvard professor and addiction expert. Leading the charge against one of the biggest public health crises of our time. Addiction. Bringing facts, empathy, and hard earned truth. One in three people may have a problem with alcohol at some point in their life. And globally, 2.6 million people every year die from alcohol related causes because pretty much every organ in the body is impacted by it. You can see here this is a 43 year old person where their brain looks the way a 90-year-old with dementia would look because of that brain damage over time from alcohol use. But what drives people to use substances is probably the most important question. And if we look at

One is about 40 to 60% genetics. And then the other half of the equation is trauma. And so when we hear someone talk about alcohol gives them pain relief, whether that's emotional or physical, that's a very real thing. That's because your sort of natural painkiller system is activated by drinking. It's an anti-anxiety and a pain medication sort of all in one. So when you think about how we treat addiction, where we The biggest problem is that people haven't been given the evidence and tools to understand the diction, but also many rehabs don't offer the things that we know are actually effective. And what is it that people need? Great question. One of the most effective tools we teach people is the menthol. And they found that people drank much less after it? Yeah. I find it incredibly fascinating that when we look at the back end of Spotify and Apple and our audio channels, the majority of people that watch this podcast haven't yet hit the follow button. or the subscribe button, wherever you're listening to this. I would like to make a deal with you. If you could do me a huge favor and hit that subscribe button, I will work tirelessly from now until forever to make the show better and better and better and better. I can't tell you how much it helps when you hit that subscribe button. The show gets bigger, which means we can expand the production, bring in all the guests you want to see and continue to do in this thing we love.

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