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Does alcohol make me stupid?

Other than making you call your ex at 3am, crying? No. “Even the concentration of alcohol in the brain of a person who is dead drunk doesn’t come close to the levels required to kill living cells,” says Stephen Braun, a science writer and the author of Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine. People become intoxicated with only 0.1 per cent of alcohol in their blood. But alcohol is a “dirty bomb”, says Braun. Rather than zeroing in on one specific region of the brain, alcohol actually impacts your entire noggin. The result: A few drinks can temporarily block new memory formation, dull your thinking, and severely reduce muscle control.