The researcher at the National School of Biological Sciences (ENCB) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Iván Villanueva Becerril, conducts an investigation to determine the effects of alcohol consumption on metabolism.
In a statement, he said that it was found that excessive alcohol intake alters the rhythm with which the organism's tissues are synchronized to perform physiological functions, such as food, which could cause overweight, irritability, cognitive deficiencies, resistance toInsulin and type 2 diabetes.
He informed that, based on an experiment with rats carried out in the Department of Physiology, it is believed that ethyl intake favors cerebral gabaergic activity, a mechanism that reduces neuronal activity and stimulates the inhibitory mechanism, which causes the deincronization between tissues and subtractionThe ability of the agency to defend itself and leaves it vulnerable to developing diseases.
Circadian cycles are physiological changes that occur every 24 hours in the body, in which the body's tissues intervene and synchronize to fulfill specific functions, which have an endogenous clock mechanism that marks them daily and determines whatAct, he explained.
Under normal conditions, the tissues maintain a constant temporal adjustment ratio, which begins when the AOL comes out and decreases when there is no light, so these mechanisms accelerate when they wake up and lower the intensity when sleeping, he said.
The circadian riticity allows the activity of the different physiological processes to coincide with the appropriate moments of the environmental and dark environmental cycle.
However, the results showed that after an alcohol poisoning, the circadian phases take longer to complete and start the next period, Villanueva Becerril explained.