Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DE2_4R0O5BN/ Even occasional drinkers raise their risk of cancer.  From Boston’s famed Dana-Farber Cancer Institute come details on why that is true. Alcohol damages the tissues it touches all along your gastrointestinal tract creating oxidative stress in cells. When your cells try to repair themselves, DNA changes, that is mutations, occur and some lead to cancer.  Then too, alcohol is metabolized in your body to the carcinogen acetaldehyde.  Alcohol directly inflames and damages your liver leading to cancer.  It triggers increases in your body’s estrogen levels.  For women, that can facilitate breast cancer development and studies show 15% of these cancers are alcohol-related.  Finally, alcohol is a carb and puts pounds on you, a known cancer risk. Dana-Farber nutritionists recommend reserving any drinking only for special occasions.  That doesn’t mean TGIF. https://blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2023/09/what-you-should-know-about-alcohol-cons