way alcohol affects your immune system:
both acute and chronic alcohol use impair
cellular immunity, leaving your immune
system even less prepared to deal with
inflammatory consequences. Alcohol is also
pro-oxidative, meaning that it contributes to
oxidation in the body: it reduces antioxidant
levels by increasing free radicals, which (as
we’ll detail soon enough) contributes to
chronic systemic inflammation.
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Even in moderate amounts,
alcohol is acutely neurotoxic. It
alters the normal activity of your
nervous system, may cause
damage to nervous tissue, and can
disrupt or even kill neurons, the
cells that transmit and process
signals in the brain and other
parts of the nervous system. In