A friend sent me an article on the effects of binge drinking, probably because he knows that although I never drank I have the cognitive skills of a rat who participated in a binge drinking study. According to what I read, the more we have binged ? and the younger we have started to binge ? the more we experience significant, though often subtle, deleterious effects on the brain and cognition. In plain English, if you binged when you were a kid, you?re likely to do some inexplicably stupid things when you?re an adult. So --- here are some tips. Stop after one or two drinks. If you must binge, start at age 40, not at age 16. And, most important of all --- if you binged excessively when younger, please don?t get elected President.
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