Content How to Make Exercise a Regular Part of Your Addiction Recovery Are there different types of adolescent drinkers that can benefit from targeted interventions? How Does Alcohol Withdrawal Affect the Body? Tips for Dealing With Anger When You’re Sober Some people still experience impaired cognitive functions even after a significant recovery of brain volume. […]
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Recovery of Cognitive Functioning in Alcoholics PMC
Content Why You Need to Get Help With Alcohol Addiction What Happens When You Stop Drinking? A Sobriety Timeline Your skin may improve. Ready to make a change? Two Months Alcohol Withdrawal Timeline to Recovery: An Alcohol-Free Life Regular alcohol consumption generally causes a chronic state of mild dehydration, so as you restore your body to […]
A revitalized biopsychosocial model: core theory, research paradigms, and clinical implications PMC
Few morbid conditions could be interpreted as being of the nature “one microbe, one illness”; rather, there are usually multiple interacting causes and contributing factors. Thus, obesity leads to both diabetes and arthritis; both obesity and arthritis limit exercise capacity, adversely affecting blood pressure and cholesterol levels; and all of the above, except perhaps arthritis, […]
Having Alcohol Blackouts? Here are the Possible Causes and Solutions
Content Increased Risk for Other Addictions What is Selenium’s Role in Diabetes? Anticraving Medications What Is Diabetes? Diabetes and Alcohol Consumption Dos and Don’ts Those enzymes are secreted directly into the gut to ensure effective food digestion. Two of the hormones (i.e., insulin and glucagon) are potent regulators of blood sugar levels. Both hormones are […]
Negotiating the Relationship Between Addiction, Ethics, and Brain Science PMC
In fact, San Francisco reported a higher cannabis use rate than Amsterdam (Reinarman, Cohen and Kaal 2004). The factors that increase an individual’s risk for addiction are numerous, yet they all find their place in the biopsychosocial model of addiction (Marlatt & Baer, 1988). Taken together, this model provides a holistic conceptualization of addiction that […]
Carrie Fisher, Augusten Burroughs, Leslie Jamison: 15 great recovery memoirs
Anxiety, depression, and cravings are not a sustainable way of life, nor are they inevitable symptoms of a permanent disease. By the time I found this book, I already knew from experience that supplements can repair your brain after you quit drinking. Her masterpiece provided me with a wealth of new information and a blueprint […]
How To Stay Sober When It Seems Like Your Life Sucks
If you sit and actually have an inquisitive, conversation with us and not instantly judge us, because we are not drinking. Those of us who choose to get sober see this destructive pattern and want to change it. (I am speaking from personal experience, maybe yours is different). https://ecosoberhouse.com/ Here’s how to stay sober, and […]
Alcoholic ketoacidosis
Content Six Cases Of Sudden Cardiac Arrest In Alcoholic Ketoacidosis Emergent Treatment of Alcoholic Ketoacidosis Can Alcoholic Ketoacidosis kill You? The syndrome of alcoholic ketoacidosis Clinical studies of alcoholic ketoacidosis Clinical Features The patient should have blood glucose checked on the initial presentation. The next important step in the management of AKA is to give […]
Alcohol Intolerance: Symptoms, Tests & Alcohol Allergy
A study conducted in 2015 showed that blocking TLR4 function most of the neuroinflammatory effects produced by ethanol were diminished [104]. In another study, adolescent mice that consumed ethanol intermittently (3 g/kg) for two weeks, showed that this consumption pattern leads to an activation of TLR4 signaling pathways, an up-regulation of cytokines and proinflammatory mediators, […]
How does alcohol affect blood pressure?
For example, people of Asian descent tend to have lower levels of ALDH. Individuals may also explore alternative alcoholic beverages or nonalcoholic options that they can tolerate. They may also find that eating certain foods, taking supplements, or exercising may help with their reaction. They may also discuss possible medications for their reactions, such as […]