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i’ve done a lot of videos on the toxic effect of alcohol on the liver but i

haven’t done a video showing the effects of alcohol

on the heart tissue so let’s talk about that

there is a condition called alcoholic heart

muscle disease where the heart becomes very dysfunctional because of the

chronic use of alcohol but alcohol in general will

create several problems with the heart tissue

one is it causes an increase of acetyl aldehyde accumulation now

i’ve done videos on this on the liver and this chemical is considered a toxin

or a poison it’s responsible for that the feeling of

a hangover and the body will try to use certain enzymes to get rid of this

toxin well the same enzymes in the heart also are trying to get rid of this

toxic poison which is a residue from the alcohol

also you’ll get a decreased protein synthesis on the myocytes so the heart

cell is made out of muscle and it needs

protein to rejuvenate so you’re not going to get

a nice turnover of heart cells dilated chambers so you have different

parts of the heart okay you have four chambers and these

chambers as they start to enlarge they don’t all enlarge on a symmetry

basis like the right side might enlarge more than the left and

that creates all sorts of problems it can also create arrhythmia

problems and murmurs because now as the heart

is enlarged the valves no longer close like they’re supposed to

also there’s going to be increased inflammation in the heart

which really leads to a lot of problems with calcium buildup cholesterol buildup

fibrosis of the heart tissue arrhythmias and then we have another effect of a

decreased ejection fraction and a decreased contractibility so this

contraction of the pump which is supposed to push

the blood throughout the body is impaired we also get a decrease of

anti-apoptosis pathways now what does that mean there

are certain pathways that are there to help the survival of the heart muscle

cell called the myocyte apoptosis is where the cell actually

dies so we have anti heart muscle cell death

right so with alcohol you are going to decrease

the effect of this protective mechanism and you’ll have more heart cells that

die and then we get an increase of calcium

that accumulates inside the cells now normally we’re supposed to have this

ratio of way more calcium outside the cell

than inside the cell we do need calcium inside the cell but

that is very very tightly regulated and

calcium acts as a communication particle in and out of the cell

one of the problems with alcohol is it drives too much calcium inside the cell

and you have all sorts of issues and there’s quite a few other things

that will drive calcium inside the cell too like emf electromagnetic fields

a problem with low potassium because potassium protects

this calcium overload and what happens then is you’ll start getting arrhythmias

and palpitations and all sorts of problems

with the pacemaker of the heart now i know some of you are

going to ask about what about a little bit of wine each day i heard

that was good for the heart because of the phytonutrients the

antioxidants the phenols right well yes that is correct but it’s the

exposure to ethanol that’s the problem if you were to consume a half a cup of

wine that may create a little bit of what’s called a hormetic effect which

will add a little stress to cause the body to

rebound and it you might see positive changes but

who’s going to stop at a half a glass of wine per night

probably not very many people but i will say if you’re going to drink some wine

occasionally and you want it to create more recovery there are certain things

that the heart loves and the biggest thing that it loves is

ketones fat the heart prefers fat fuel way over

glucose fuel and that would be the healthy keto

and the intermittent fasting for sure as a way to recover the damage that alcohol

could create the other two things that the heart

loves our omega-3 fatty acids okay

and vitamin e make sure the vitamin e includes tocatrinos not just

a synthetic tocopherol all right thanks for watching

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