While it's a well known that excessive alcohol consumption is terrible for the body, a new study shows yet another reason not to go overboard in this aspect: among the binge drinking health effects there's the fact that young adults' immune systems can actually disrupt.
Unconcerned with the binge drinking health effects, many people in their 20s may party a little too hard and indulge in excessive drinking, but the fact is that depending on age, weight and health the effects can be all the worse, even in people who are in shape.
According to Science Daily, the new findings regarding binge drinking health effects was first pursued by the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, in a research paper published in the last number of the journal Alcohol, under the title "Acute Immunomodulatory Effects of Binge Alcohol Ingestion."
According to The Huffington Post, to achieve further knowledge about the binge drinking health effects, the researchers asked 15 participants (average age of 27) to drink vodka depending on their weight, which would be enough to exceed the alcohol content in their bloods to .08, which is the legal limit for driving.
After asking them to do this, the researchers found that twenty minutes after the peak level of intoxication, their immune systems basically went into overdrive: their blood tests showed higher levels of white blood cells as the body fought against the intoxication.
Later, according to Science World Report, the researchers measured the blood of the participants after two and five hours; it seems that, by that point, their immune systems had turned considerably less active than when sober.
In other words, among the binge drinking health effects, there's the fact that the immune system can crash, even in young and healthy males, something that could potentially lead to a higher risk of contagion of diseases when intoxicated.
