Study Links Alcohol Consumption to a Decline in Brain Health

River D'Almeida, Ph.D
2 min readMay 24, 2021

There’s no “safe” number of drinks

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Thinking of cracking open a cold one this weekend? Researchers from the University of Oxford have identified a connection between alcohol consumption and the shrinking of the brain’s gray matter, according to a new study. The team found that any amount of alcohol could negatively affect the brain, meaning that current “drink…

River D'Almeida, Ph.D

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