regular wine drinkers will it be easy to "top" as the standard one. Experiment by German scientists for the first time that the human body in six minutes after drinking, that is, changes in brain cells that reach the wine began to damage the brain and brain cells.

human experimentation

previous alcohol test only in animals carried out. University of Heidelberg, Germany Hospital neuroradiology Engineering study officers found the eight men and seven women were tested in volunteers.

subjects be asked to undergo MRI brain scans at the same time through a 90 cm long straw to drink a certain amount of wine, its alcohol content equivalent to three glasses of beer or two glasses of wine.

reason why the standards set by the alcohol intake because it can make human blood alcohol content from .05 to .06 percent. The degree of alcohol content is not driving a vehicle, but the phenomenon is not a serious drink.

MRI brain scans allow researchers to observe the brain cells were drinking subtle changes in the organizational structure.

at an alarming rate

scanning results showed that only six minutes, the subjects of brain cells began to change. Started using alcohol in the brain of the sugar to provide energy for the operation, rather than using the basic cycle of the blood sugar glucose (monosaccharide). This means that at this time has been damage to brain cells.

responsible for the experimental neuroscientist at University Hospital of Heidelberg Arbil Amin said, "Research shows that alcohol intake with the change of energy source."

with higher alcohol concentration in the blood, normally protects the brain cells of material, energy metabolites, such as reductions in creatine. If alcohol consumption increases, brain cells, other ingredients, such as with the cell membrane constitute the ACh also be reduced. "It is very likely indicates that alcohol poses to trigger changes in brain cell membrane."

study published in the latest issue of the British "Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism."

the same for men and women

researchers also found that after drinking, men and women of the brain response to alcohol are not. Moreover, despite the alcohol damage to brain cells may be only short-term, but after the brain cells to spend a longer time to complete self-repair.

Arbil, said: "The next day follow-up experiment studies have shown that moderate drinking healthy individuals, its changes in brain metabolites fully reversible. But we speculate that the brain response to alcohol injury with repair capacity increase in alcohol intake decreased or disappeared. "

previous studies have shown that alcohol can shrink the brain. U.S. researchers found that those who drink a daily average of more than two people, the brain volume smaller than 1.6 percent alcohol. And human aging caused by the death of brain cells in each brain atrophy only 0.19%.

"drinking experiment showed dramatic changes after the brain may be caused by alcohol will be the basis of permanent brain damage, but it remains to be further studied," he said.