Is it good for people who blush after drinking?

Because it is ethanol that makes people drunk, the difference of people's alcohol consumption depends on the ability of metabolizing ethanol in the body, that is, the difference of the quantity and activity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) in the first metabolic reaction; If only the amount of drinking is considered, there is no significant difference in the metabolic rate of alcohol between people who blush and those who don't blush. But the health risks they take are quite different. Because people who blush after drinking alcohol can't be metabolized quickly after alcohol is converted into acetaldehyde, excessive acetaldehyde accumulated in their bodies will not only make them feel worse after a hangover, but also increase the risk of hypertension and cancer.

According to the International Agency for Cancer (IARC), acetaldehyde is a high-risk carcinogen, which can destroy DNA and prevent cells from repairing themselves. Relatively speaking, alcohol and acetic acid have low carcinogenic factors. Therefore, people who face up as soon as they drink alcohol will be exposed to high carcinogens for longer. According to a report published by NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) and Kurihara Alcohol Center in Japan in 2009, the relative risk of esophageal cancer is much higher for people who blush than for those who don't blush. However, due to the complexity of the cause of cancer, there is no direct experiment or statistical data to support this analysis and guess. The report also admits that for some areas with high incidence of esophageal cancer, whether long-term drinkers blush or not is not the main factor affecting the incidence.

Although the correlation with the incidence of cancer is inconclusive, people who blush after drinking should really pay more attention to the high blood pressure that may be caused by excessive drinking. At the end of 20 13, the medical research team of South Korea's Chungnam University made a direct breakthrough in the study of the relationship between blushing drinkers and hypertension risk. They counted the medical records of 1763 people, including those who did not drink, those who did not blush after drinking, and those who obviously blushed after drinking. The results show that if people drink four or more standard doses of alcohol per week, the risk of hypertension will increase obviously, while people who don't blush will only have such a risk if they drink more than eight standard doses per week (a standard dose of alcohol refers to 65,438+00 ml of pure alcohol, which is usually equivalent to 87.5ml of alcohol).

Therefore, it should be clear that alcohol is not a completely untouchable poison for people who blush after drinking, but the boundaries of safe drinking are much stricter than those who don't blush after drinking. Of course, not only people who blush when drinking, but anyone should know how to drink moderately.