How Alcohol Rewires Your Brain and Increases Cancer Risk by 40%! The Alcohol Doctor, Dr. Sarah Wakeman

<p>Are you unknowingly damaging your brain and raising your cancer risk with just one drink? Discover the alarming truth about alcohol from Dr. Sarah Wakeman, what every adult needs to know now.</p>
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<p>Dr. Sarah Wakeman is senior medical director for substance use disorder at Mass General Brigham healthcare system, the number one research system in the U.S. She is also the Medical Director of the Mass General Hospital Addiction Consult Team and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. </p>
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<p>She explains: </p>
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<p>How alcohol is hijacking your dopamine system.</p>
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<p>Why no amount of alcohol is good for your brain.</p>
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<p>The shocking truth about moderate drinking.</p>
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<p>How doctors are failing addiction patients on a daily basis.</p>
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<p>Why 1 in 3 people will struggle with alcohol.</p>
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<p>00:00 Intro  </p>
<p>02:23 Sarah's Mission  </p>
<p>02:52 Sarah's Education and Experience  </p>
<p>03:40 Issues With Addiction Treatment in the Modern World  </p>
<p>04:31 What Is Addiction?  </p>
<p>05:48 What Things Are Capable of Being Addictive?  </p>
<p>06:47 Physiological Dependence vs. Addiction  </p>
<p>07:25 Scale of the Problem: Why Should People Care?  </p>
<p>08:59 Is Society Getting Better or More Addicted?  </p>
<p>09:32 Substance-Related Deaths During the Pandemic  </p>
<p>10:22 What Drives People to Use Substances?  </p>
<p>12:24 Substances' Effects on the Brain  </p>
<p>14:29 Does Trauma at a Young Age Increase Addiction Risk?  </p>
<p>16:36 The Opposite of Addiction Is Connection  </p>
<p>18:11 Why Addiction Matters to Sarah  </p>
<p>19:02 Living With a Family Member Struggling With Addiction  </p>
<p>20:43 Who Is Sarah Trying to Save?  </p>
<p>22:57 Change Happens When the Pain of Staying the Same Is Greater Than the Pain of Change  </p>
<p>25:53 Misconceptions About Alcohol  </p>
<p>28:15 Is There a Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption?  </p>
<p>28:50 Is One Drink a Day Safe for Health?  </p>
<p>30:38 Link Between Moderate Drinking and Cancer  </p>
<p>33:23 Types of Cancer Linked to Alcohol Consumption  </p>
<p>34:51 Cancer Risk Among Heavy Drinkers  </p>
<p>35:31 Heavy Drinking and Comorbidities as Cancer Risk Factors  </p>
<p>36:20 How Alcohol Drives Cancer Mechanisms  </p>
<p>38:00 Alcohol and Weight Gain  </p>
<p>38:54 The Role of the Liver  </p>
<p>42:07 Liver's Ability to Regenerate  </p>
<p>46:37 How Alcohol Causes Brain Deterioration  </p>
<p>47:23 Other Organs Affected by Alcohol  </p>
<p>48:00 Alcohol's Impact on the Heart  </p>
<p>49:08 Body Fat Percentage and Alcohol Tolerance  </p>
<p>50:05 Does High Alcohol Tolerance Prevent Organ Damage?  </p>
<p>50:46 What Is a Hangover?  </p>
<p>52:14 Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Alcohol  </p>
<p>53:47 Is Rehab Effective for Addiction?  </p>
<p>56:50 Psychedelic Therapy for Addiction  </p>
<p>57:36 GLP-1 Medications for Addiction Treatment  </p>
<p>59:03 Ads  </p>
<p>59:59  Celebrity Addictions  </p>
<p>1:02:24 Stigma Around Addiction  </p>
<p>1:04:41 Addiction Cases That Broke Sarah's Heart  </p>
<p>1:12:43 Is Empathy Positive Reinforcement for Addicted Individuals?  </p>
<p>1:15:34 Setting Boundaries With an Addicted Person  </p>
<p>1:18:57 Motivational Interviewing to Support Recovery  </p>
<p>1:22:19 Finding Motivation for Positive Change  </p>
<p>1:26:03 Habits to Support Addiction Recovery  </p>
<p>1:29:12 Ads  </p>
<p>1:30:18 Can the Brain Recover From Addiction?  </p>
<p>1:34:55 Unexpected Sources of Addictive Behavior  </p>
<p>1:35:35 How Sarah Copes With Difficult Addiction Cases  </p>
<p>1:37:10 Importance of Language Around Addiction  </p>
<p>1:41:40 How Labels Limit People's Potential  </p>
<p>1:46:05 Sarah's Upcoming Book  </p>
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<p>Research document: </p>
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