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Alcohol impairs recovery from illness
According to researches from the University of Massachusetts Medical School that collected blood from volunteers to study how drinking alcohol affects monocytes, the white blood cells that are part of the immune system, made an unwelcome discovery. Alcohol can worsen the effects of disease and lengthen recovery period following injury, burns or trauma. It both impairs the body’s antiviral immune response, especially in the liver, and increases inflammation, so think twice before next drink.
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