Heavy drinking is an important risk factor for depression and suicide…Reducing alcohol consumption (both total consumption as well as binge drinking) is arguably the most important modifiable way to promote cognitive and neurological health and prevent or reduce brain harms.

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Listen to four expert speakers, Nason Maani, Blanca Lorente, Emil Juslin, and Juliet Namukasa, discuss how the alcohol industry keeps people in the dark about alcohol and cancer and what we can do about it. And we explore insights and lessons from both science and community action in countries such as Sweden, Uganda, and Colombia to chart an ambitious way forward for alcohol policy action to support cancer prevention and increase public recognition of the magnitude of alcohol’s contribution to cancer cases and deaths. 

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Got a Drinking Problem? Do you know? Well, Heads up! If you have an AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder) then you are aging faster than others!

Biological aging markers in blood and brain tissue indicate age acceleration in alcohol use disorder Conclusions: The present study is the first to simultaneously investigate epigenetic clocks, telomere length, and mtDNAcn in postmortem brain and whole blood samples in individuals with AUD. We found evidence for accelerated biological aging in AUD in blood and brain, as measured by Levine's epigenetic clock, and DNAmTL. 

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World Cancer Awareness Day 4^th February 2024 continuing to raise awareness of this broad and relentless disease, which has many contributing factors. Some of these carcinogenic contributors can be completely neutralised – one such factor is alcohol. The disturbing research emerging over the last 10 years has been irrefutably confirming that alcohol use is associated with 7 major cancer types.

Research as follows;

• Alcohol Directly Causes Cancer, New Study Shows
• How does alcohol cause cancer?
• Alcohol is one of the biggest risk factors for breast cancer (W.H.O)
• No amount of bacon or alcohol is safe, World Cancer Research Fund says
• Raising Awareness of the Link Between Alcohol and Cancer
• Stop Drinking Alcohol = Reduced Cancer Risk: Simple equation isn’t it?
• Alcohol Induced Cancer – a Wake Up Call, which is Good News?
• World-first trial in a breast screening service targeting women’s low awareness of the link between alcohol and breast cancer
• Drinking just ONE glass of wine or pint of beer each night 'may raise your cancer risk by 5%' as scientists warn the safest amount of alcohol is NONE

The key message here is not ‘don’t drink alcohol’. However, the unmistakable take-away from these facts is; if you want to maximise your protection against cancer then not drinking at all is the best-practice.

It’s your call, but please be better informed this World Cancer Day 2024

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Alcohol & Cancer: A ‘Dirty’ Ditty?

Do you want cancer, then drink alcohol.
Or you can slow and not drink at all.
You still get to choose but you’ll need all the stats,
Cause Big Alcohol could not give a ‘rats’!
Cancer’s no fun, not for anyone.
Addiction for profit will just set you up.
Throat, Breast, or Bowel, it could be each one.
But Big alcohol cares little if you’re DONE!

Alcohol and Cancer, who knew it could be?
Most people don’t know, but what of industry?
The harms they continue and Cancer the latest.
Become a non-drinker and upgrade your status?
Alcohol causes cancer, cancer, cancer
Rates with asbestos, ‘Jack the Dancer Advancer’

Throat and
Mouth and
Bowel and
Breast… 
Voice box 
Liver and
Food pipe to boot…

7 x chances of developing cancers – all with one root! 

…Alcohol 

© Dalgarno Institute 2023

By Dalgarno Institute Research Team

In the 2023 Review of Alcohol Issues, we collect seven landmark tools, manuals, and resources from the World Health Organization regarding alcohol issues in 2023:

1. World Health Organization Comment in The Lancet: No Level of Alcohol Use Is Safe for our Health
2. WHO Releases Updated Recommendations on Treatment of Substance Use Conditions
3. A New Agenda for Mental Health in the Americas Recommends Alcohol Policy Action
4. WHO Publishes Reporting About Alcohol Guide For Journalists
5. WHO Europe Training Course on Alcohol and Public Health in Europe
6. New WHO Brief on NoLo Alcohol Products Released
7. WHO Calls on Countries to Raise Alcohol Taxes to Prevent Deaths and Promote Health for All