The effect of beer on hemoglobin in the blood — does it increase or decrease it?

Beer is one of the few alcoholic beverages that even doctors recognize as beneficial to health, namely for the circulatory system.

There is a point of view that beer relieves anemia. But the question of whether this drink can raise hemoglobin to the desired level requires particularly detailed consideration.

Blood composition may improve when drinking a natural intoxicating drink. But, first of all, we are not talking about all varieties and types of beer. Secondly, an adequate dose of consumption is also important.

Effect on hemoglobin levels

There are two points of view on the ability of a drink to increase hemoglobin. Both of them have the right to exist.

1. Any alcohol raises hemoglobin due to blood thickening. Beer contains ethyl alcohol: a half—liter bottle is 20-40 g of ethanol. Therefore, when consumed, like any other alcoholic beverage, beer first helps to thin the blood , and then thickens it. Due to this, the concentration of hemoglobin increases.
2. Only the dark variety is useful for anemia. Dark beer initially contains a large amount of useful vitamins, iron and other minerals. Iron is the most active participant in the hematopoiesis process and the main component of hemoglobin. Light beer undergoes several filtrations, as a result of which it acquires transparency and a light color, but at the same time loses many useful substances, including iron. And the dark one contains a lot of iron, which, by oxidizing other substances, gives the product a rich color and tart taste. Non-alcoholic beer is also not suitable for this purpose.

Adherents of the second point of view urge to increase the level of iron content through regular consumption of dark beer.

Is it possible to drink at low levels?

Yes, it is possible. Provided that it is a natural unfiltered and unfixed product. Dark beer can really affect the problem of anemia.

But it is impossible to turn this into a "course of treatment" for the following reasons:

1. It is very difficult to determine the dose and duration of a course to increase hemoglobin levels using dark beer. Each body reacts to alcohol consumption in its own way. And if for one person half a liter of a drink drunk once a day is a healing dose, then for another this dosage causes intoxication.
2. Not every drink lover is able to limit himself in beer, even having an idea of his physiological norm. And after exceeding the dosage and with frequent use, ethanol gives the opposite effect to wellness: alcohol destroys the main blood cells, erythrocytes, and at the same time reduces hemoglobin, which is part of red blood cells.
3. Along with beer, a snack that is not very healthy is often consumed, which can negate the therapeutic effect of a high-quality drink:

• Salted nuts, chips, crackers;
• Salted dried fish;
• Smoked foods
• Snacks with a high content of trans fats.

Is it possible to consume at a high level?

Elevated hemoglobin is not an indicator of a good level of health, but on the contrary, it is a sign of existing blood pathologies. Large numbers often indicate diseases such as:

• Hypertension;
• Thrombophlebitis;
• Varicose veins, etc.

All of them are harbingers of such deadly diseases as brain stroke, myocardial infarction, etc.

Even drinking dark beer, that is, beer that is useful for blood, hypertension or another patient with pathologies of the circulatory and cardiovascular systems, Exacerbates health problems .

Benefits and harms for the cardiovascular system

In addition to the composition of the blood, the drink changes the condition of blood vessels and affects the work of the heart muscle . With a moderate dosage, this effect can also be positive.

1. Vasodilation. In small doses, light alcohol is a little dilates blood vessels and improves blood circulation.
2. Lowering blood pressure. Due to the fact that the blood vessels expand, the pressure in them decreases. Therefore, after a few sips of beer, a person begins to feel better.
3. Nutrition of blood vessels and heart muscle. The intoxicating drink contains vitamins A and C, a large amount of B vitamins, magnesium, potassium, selenium, silicon, zinc, copper, manganese, which are necessary to improve blood composition, for strengthening of blood vessels and reducing their permeability, nutrition of the heart.

But it is only necessary to exceed the frequency or one-time rate of drinking a drink, as it turns from a healing one into a very harmful one for all body systems.

1. Blood clots. Beer has a strong diuretic effect, due to which blood is thickening . Ethanol also increases viscosity, provoking the formation of blood clots and blood clots and increasing the likelihood of stroke and stroke.
2. Increased hypertension. Alcohol increases blood pressure, causing hypertension as a chronic disease.
3. Increased pressure on blood vessels and heart muscle. The amount of alcohol consumed increases the amount of blood pumped by the heart, causes an increase in pressure on the walls of blood vessels, which are forced to artificially expand .
4. Violation of vascular elasticity. Ethyl alcohol makes arteries, veins and capillaries brittle, their walls thin and permeable.
5. Hypoxia. Condensed blood moves more slowly through the vessels, supplies oxygen worse, without reaching the periphery. This causes oxygen starvation of all organs of the body, and first of all — the heart and brain.

 

Safe daily allowance

Nutritionists, narcologists and other doctors call different daily norms for drinking intoxicating drinks without harm to health.

But the average figures are as follows:

• From 2 to 3 times a week, 250-750 ml per day for women;
• 3 to 5 times a week, 350-1000 ml per day for men.

These norms are of a very approximate recommendatory nature and cannot be applied to everyone without exception. Even if a person has no contraindications to alcohol consumption, the dosage is determined by a large number of individual parameters. But exceeding these norms will definitely cause harm and will not help to improve the circulatory system.

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Conclusion

Natural unfiltered beer is a delicious and beloved drink by many. And it can really help in getting rid of anemia. But it is better to combine this method of healing with others, and first of all with proper nutrition.