It's happened to all of us more or less (more or less frequently):waking up with a big memory lapse, unable to remember what happened the night before. And there, a host of feelings invades us. We are afraid of having done something stupid, of having sent a message that we already regret, of taking compromising photos and above all, we have this very unpleasant feeling of not knowing how we got home and what happened. has passed. English professor Paul Wallace, in charge of providing medical advice on the Drinkaware site, reassures us:it's normal and it happens to everyone... but that doesn't mean it's a good thing, on the contrary. .
Alcohol has adverse effects on the brain, even in small amounts. It slows down its functioning and therefore causes weaknesses in the memory. It's not that we forgot the events, it's that our brain simply didn't register them, since the overflow of alcohol in the blood prevented it from functioning properly. The first problem of these memory losses is that we realize after we have sometimes put ourselves in dangerous situations or that we have put other people in danger, such as driving in a state of drunkenness or unprotected sex because we had completely lost control. The second is medical:over the long term, excessive alcohol consumption damages the brain. Doctors have detected faster and greater brain degeneration over time in patients who consumed large amounts of alcohol, as well as memory loss and fatal neurological diseases. So we think about his brain and reason with each other!
To avoid this kind of problem and preserve our brain, we can go to the English site Drinkaware which allows us to consult medical advice in the event of overconsumption, to learn about the harmful effects of alcohol but also to calculate its consumption. The UK site advises a maximum consumption of 14 units (the amount varies by drink) for a week (and not at the same time!). So we calculate its units, it allows you to see where it is, to avoid too much glass and the black hole of the next day but also to take care of your brain.
