Category: Sober living

Substance use and gambling disorders are complex conditions that affect the reward, reinforcement, motivation, and memory systems of the brain. They are characterized by impaired control over usage; social impairment, involving the disruption of everyday activities and relationships; and craving. Continuing use is typically harmful to relationships as well as Twelve-step program to obligations at…

For those struggling with alcoholism or other substance abuse problems, powdered alcohol may represent an easy and convenient way to consume large amounts of alcohol without anyone noticing. This could lead to serious health consequences or even death in some cases. In fact, it was first invented in the late 1960s by a corporation named…

They report that excessive alcohol use led to around 178,000 deaths in the U.S. between 2020 to 2021, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 24 years. Alcohol is a diuretic because it suppresses the release of vasopressin, also known as antidiuretic hormone. When vasopressin is suppressed, you lose fluids by…

NADPH is a necessary cofactor for the biosynthesis of fatty acids along with acetyl-CoA, generated by the metabolism of ethanol. Pyruvate carboxylase and malic enzyme mediate a cyclic metabolic pathway, which via the mitochondrial citrate and pyruvate transporters results in the transport of acetyl-CoA across the mitochondrial membrane and generation of cytosolic NADPH. An alternative…

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