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Published online 14 January 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000120-1
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Drinking dulls defence
You may think that your nightly tipple helps you cope with stress, but alcohol may actually make your body far more vulnerable to it, reports Sara Abdulla.
Years of drinking alcohol may interfere with your body's ability to maintain its equilibrium. By blunting the brain's natural stress response, long-term boozing can impair the way in which a body protects itself from damage.
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