Your Good News Of The Day: Alcohol DOESN’T Kill Brain Cells

I have always heard that booze kills brain cells, and you're destroying your brain every time you drink, therefore making you stupider by the sip. Ok, I'm exaggerating a tad, but I was always told that alcohol does a number on our brain cells. Here comes science to save the day!

Popular Science busted 10 brain myths and one of them was that drinking alcohol kills brain cells. Here's what they have to say about that,

That woozy feeling you get after three or four glasses of wine isn’t from brain cells expiring. When scientists at the Bartholin Institute in Denmark compared the brains of deceased alcoholics and nonalcoholics, they found the total number of neurons to be the same. Alcohol, like other substances, can kill brain cells at high doses (especially the sensitive brain cells of developing fetuses), but moderate alcohol use does not. It does interfere with how neurons communicate, affecting one’s ability to perform tasks like walking, speaking, and making decisions. But you already knew that.

So there you go, your good news for the day is that you can consume alcohol in moderation and you won't destroy your brain, but excessive use of booze will kill brain cells. I think we already knew that.