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Stay Calm When Triggered! - Be The Confident Woman Everyone Respects & Admires | Louisa Nicola PT 2

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The Effects of Ethanol on the Brain

Our brain is comprised of gray matter that sits on the outer portion of our brain. Gray matter just means it's got the cell bodies. Now, remember at the start, I told you about the axon? That's the white matter. That is where all of our myelination happens. You are killing both areas of the brain through drinking. So ethanol is not just disrupting sleep. You're also killing neurons. And can you get those neurons back? If you stop drinking, adult neurogenesis does not exist in humans.

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