Here’s How Alcohol Can Increase Your Risk for Alzheimer’s

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

Drinking alcohol has been found to have both a protective and damaging effect on the brain, depending on which study you read and how much alcohol is consumed. The jury is still out on whether light or moderate consumption may be good for your brain, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that heavy drinking is not. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago even revealed how alcohol may increase your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, by disrupting the way amyloid beta is cleared.

Amyloid beta is a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease that can clump together in the brain, …read more

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