translated from Spanish: That is how alcohol damages your DNA and makes you want to take more

Excessive alcohol is not good for our health is something long ago comes tested scientifically.
In recent years, several scientific studies have shown that the old belief that a glass of wine at meals is beneficial for our health was erroneous.
The health benefits of (at least) a day without drinking alcohol “or even a drink a day”: what says about drinking the largest study on disease and death in the world many even argue that even a single drink has a negative impact on n our State of health.
And in addition, increasingly are known over the effects of the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Now, a group of scientists from the University of Rutgers (USA) together with researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Yale (USA), have found that alcohol consumption may even alter our DNA to make us want to take more.
More consumption, greater is the desire to reach this conclusion, the team focused its analysis on two genes involved in the control of behavior when we are under the influence of alcohol.
One is the PER2, which influences our body’s biological clock and the other the POMC, which regulates our mechanism of response to stress.
The researchers found that drinking alcohol may alter certain genes, affecting the amount of alcohol we drink to futuro.Comparando groups of drinkers moderate with people who take too much, the scientists observed that these two genes had changed in people who consume large amounts of alcohol.
In those who drank compulsively and in greater quantity, their genes produce proteins at a slower rate and also developed a momentum and taste for drink in times of stress.
Why is it so common to consume alcohol to deal with our problems?
Changes in genes were more few more drinks, developing a kind of vicious circle: to more alcohol consumed, the bigger the damage to genes, which in turn make us want to consume greater amounts of alcohol.
“We have discovered that people who drink much may be changing their DNA in a way that makes them want more alcohol,” said Professor Dipak K. Sarkar, lead author of the study led by Rutgers University.
By consuming too much alcohol, we feed a vicious cycle that makes us want to eat even more, according to the scientists.” This may help to explain why alcoholism is an addiction as powerful”, he added.
“He drank so much alcohol that my 12 year old daughter had to prepare food” researchers hope that their discovery allows them to identify biomarkers, i.e. measurable indicators such as proteins or genes modified to predict risk an individual must be a great drinker and prevent to consume still higher intakes of alcoholic beverages.

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