A doctor explains what the latest research on alcohol teaches us about its effects on physical health and mental health; ...

Strength gains depend on a delicate balance between muscle protein synthesis and breakdown, that is: the body’s ability to ...

Although substances like tobacco have reputations for being highly carcinogenic, or having the potential to cause cancer, recent studies have shown that alcohol has also been increasingly linked to ...

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Ethyl alcohol is a food, a drug, and a poison, depending on how it is used. Alcohol use can be socially and medically beneficial, a lubricant of human interactions and an extender of life. [1] Alcohol ...

Chronic and heavy alcohol use leads to gut inflammation, which increases the risk of stomach cancer. Stomach cancer, a serious condition characterized by the growth of malignant cells in the stomach ...

A new study has shown that alcohol intake can interfere with the natural regenerative abilities of the liver. Alcohol can keep cells in a kind of limbo between a functional or regenerative state, even ...

Scientists have now discovered how alcohol can switch off an immune "alarm system" in the gut, allowing bad bacteria to escape their natural habitat to flood into the liver, rapidly causing ...

TAMPA (WFLA) — The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has not yet concluded its investigation into the death of Vincent Jackson, but statements made by Jackson’s family reveal he may have suffered ...