Alcohol and the brain

Fedor Grigorievich Uglov

Comrades! If yesterday I spoke about the reasons that prevent a person from living long, and how one of them was an addiction to alcoholic “drinks,” then today I will focus on the effect of alcohol itself on human body. This conversation will be more scientific, but I think it will be understandable to everyone.

There is no disease that is not made worse by drinking alcohol. There is no such organ in a person that would not suffer from drinking alcoholic drinks. However, the brain suffers the most and the most severely. And this is easy to understand if you consider that it is in the brain that the greatest accumulation of it occurs. If the concentration of alcohol in the blood is taken as one, then in the liver it will be 1.45, in cerebrospinal fluid– 1.5, and in the brain – 1.75. In case of acute alcohol poisoning clinical picture may be heterogeneous, but at autopsy the largest lesion is observed in the brain. The dura mater is tense, the soft meninges are swollen, plethoric, the brain is sharply swollen, the vessels are dilated. There is a death of parts of the brain matter.

A more subtle study of the brain of a person who died from acute alcohol poisoning shows that in nerve cells changes have occurred in the protoplasm and nucleus, just as pronounced as in case of poisoning by others strong poisons. In this case, the cells of the cerebral cortex are affected much more than the subcortical part, i.e. alcohol acts more strongly on the cells of higher centers brain activity. In the brain there was a strong overflow of blood, often with rupture of blood vessels in meninges and on the surface of the cerebral convolutions. In cases where there was severe but not fatal alcohol poisoning, the same changes occurred in the brain and in the nerve cells of the cortex as in those who died from alcohol poisoning. The same changes in the brain are observed in people who drink, whose death occurs from causes unrelated to alcohol consumption. The described changes in the brain substance are irreversible. They leave behind an indelible mark in the form of loss of small and minute structures of the brain, which inevitably and inexorably affects its function.

But this is not the greatest evil of alcohol. In persons who consume alcoholic drinks, early clumping of erythrocytes - red blood cells - is detected. The higher the concentration of alcohol in the blood, the more pronounced the gluing process. If this occurs in rough tissues, then such a process may go unnoticed. But in the brain, where the gluing is stronger, because The alcohol concentration is higher, here it can and usually does lead to severe consequences. The diameter of the smallest capillaries, which supply blood to individual brain cells, approaches the diameter of an erythrocyte and, if red blood cells stick together here, they close the lumen in the capillaries. The oxygen supply to the brain cell stops. This oxygen starvation, If it continues for 5-10 minutes, it leads to necrosis, i.e. irreversible loss of brain cells, and the higher the concentration of alcohol in the blood, the stronger the gluing process, the more brain cells die. Autopsies of moderate drinkers have shown that their brains contain entire cemeteries of dead cortical cells.

Changes in brain structure occur after several years of drinking alcohol. When examining 20 such people, all of them were found to have a decrease in brain volume or, as they say, a shriveled brain. All were found obvious signs brain atrophy, changes in the cerebral cortex, i.e. where it happens mental activity, the memory function is carried out. Five of them clearly showed a decrease in their thinking abilities even during normal conversation. In 19 patients, changes occurred in the frontal lobe, and in 18 patients, in the occipital lobe.

People have long noticed that people who drink a lot, and even those who have already stopped drinking, show early onset of so-called senile dementia. There is an opinion that all the evil caused by alcoholic “drinks” must be attributed only to alcoholics. Alcoholics suffer. They have changes. What about us? We drink in moderation. We don't have these changes.

It is necessary to clarify here. Attempts to attribute bad influence alcohol only to those who are recognized as alcoholics is fundamentally wrong. Because the terms themselves: alcoholic, drunkard, heavy drinker, moderate drinker, light drinker, etc. have quantitative rather than fundamental differences and are understood differently by many. Some classify as alcoholics only those who drink heavily, who drink to the point of delirium tremens, etc. This is also incorrect. Binges, delirium tremens, hallucinations, Korsakov psychosis, alcohol attack jealousy, alcoholic epilepsy, etc. - all these are consequences of alcoholism. Alcoholism itself is the consumption of alcoholic “drinks”, which has a harmful effect on health, everyday life, work, and the well-being of society. The World Health Organization recognized alcohol as a drug in 1975 and defined alcoholism as a person’s dependence on alcohol. This means that the drinker is in captivity of the drug. He looks for any opportunity, any excuse to drink. And if there is no reason, he drinks without any reason. Drinks in inappropriate conditions, in secret from others. He has a desire to drink not only at the sight of wine, but also when there is none. If we ask any so-called “habitual” drunk if he considers himself an alcoholic, he will answer categorically that he is not an alcoholic. It is impossible to persuade him to go for treatment, although all his relatives, everyone around him groans at him. He says he drinks in moderation.

By the way, this is the most insidious term behind which alcoholics hide, and the most reliable weapon of all those who seek to make our people drunk. It is enough to encourage people to drink in moderation and tell them that it is harmless, and they will readily follow such advice. And most of them will become alcoholics. The term “abuse” must also be recognized as inappropriate. After all, if there is abuse, then it means that it is used not for evil, but for good, i.e. useful. But there is no such use. Moreover, there is no harmless use. Any dose taken is harmful. It's a matter of degree of harm. The term "abuse" is essentially incorrect. And at the same time, it is very insidious, because it makes it possible to cover up drunkenness with the excuse that I don’t abuse it. But there is and cannot be a boundary between use and abuse. Any use of alcoholic drinks is abuse. Even if you drink dry wine in small doses, but consume it more than once a week, the brain will not return to normal from drug poisoning at all. And its harm is undeniable. Therefore, those who recommend serving a bottle of dry wine at each dinner table are clearly counting on getting people drunk. But the question is: why drink once a month or once a year? After all, it is a narcotic poison. It's just not smart.

And isn’t it time to stop even talking about this topic in an educated, cultural society? After all, they don’t say here that you can inject yourself with morphine at least once a month, snort cocaine, take a portion of heroin, but the effect is the same. In both cases, a person finds himself captured by an illusion with bad consequences for him. So why make an exception for the same, but even more insidious drug, which is alcohol. Really, tens of millions of alcoholics and drunkards, hundreds of thousands of degenerate children do not convince us that we must put an end to this evil once and for all, put a barrier to this evil in our socialist society forever and in any doses.

How does alcohol affect brain function? What happens to a person? Why does a person’s personality, character and behavior change so dramatically? This issue has been studied quite thoroughly by psychiatrists and physiologists. It has been established that alcohol in all “drinks” containing it (vodka, liqueur, beer, alcohol, wine, etc.) affects the body in the same way as other narcotic substances and typical poisons, such as chloroform, ether, and opium in all its varieties. It selectively acts on the central nervous system, mainly on its higher centers. With repeated intake of alcohol, damage to higher centers of brain activity lasts from 8 to 20 days. If alcohol consumption occurs long time, then the work of these centers has not been restored.

In numerous experiments conducted by specialists in this field (Bunge, Krikrinsky, Sikorsky, etc.) it has been proven beyond doubt that under the influence of alcohol, the simplest mental functions, such as perceptions, are disrupted and slowed down, but not as much as more complex ones, i.e. .e. associations. These latter suffer in two aspects. Firstly, thought formation is slowed down and weakened, and, secondly, their quality is significantly changed in the sense that instead of internal associations based on the essence of an object, external associations often appear, often stereotypical, based on consonance, on the random external similarity of objects . The lowest forms of association (namely, motor or mechanical associations, learned) arise most easily in the mind. Sometimes such associations appear without the slightest reason for the matter. Once they appear, they stubbornly remain in the mind, popping up again and again, but completely inappropriately. In this respect, such persistent associations resemble the same pathological phenomena seen in neurasthenia and severe psychoses.

Of the external associations, those associated with motor acts arise especially often. Therefore, many, say, master drunkards perform their work more or less normally - the associations embedded in their brain are realized in motor acts. All this points to profound changes in the mechanism of thinking caused by poison. A person’s behavior in this state resembles manic excitement. Alcoholic euphoria occurs due to disinhibition and weakening of criticism. One of the undoubted reasons for this euphoria is the excitement of the subcortex, the oldest part of the brain in phylogenetic terms, while the younger and more sensitive parts of the cerebral cortex are severely impaired or paralyzed.

Alcohol taken in large doses causes more deep violations perception of external impressions, their accuracy decreases, attention and memory are impaired to an even greater extent than with moderate doses. Associations of quality grow, and criticism weakens; the opportunity to listen carefully to others, monitor the correctness of one’s speech, and control one’s behavior is lost. Sometimes there is an awakening...

An article by Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov about the destructive effects of alcohol on the human brain and psyche.

Uglov is a man who is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon in Russia and the CIS. He operated and saved other people's lives even after reaching 100 years old! Therefore, guys, it’s worth listening to F.G. Uglov’s thoughts on the effect of alcohol on the brain.

Before us is a recording of a lecture by Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov, which he gave on December 6, 1983 at the House of Scientists of the SOAN USSR in Novosibirsk.

Find out what harm alcohol does to the human brain, and what happens to the brain after alcohol.

It is unlikely that after the knowledge gained, there will be a desire to drink, even “culturally”.

IN as a last resort You can study more materials on the topic posted on our website, including medical ones, in order to finally

So, we will highlight the key changes that occur under the influence of alcohol on the human brain and psyche, but you can read more about these negative processes in the article by Fyodor Grigorievich.

1. When drinking alcohol, everyone suffers the most subtle functions brain, but the particularly destructive effect of alcohol on the brain is expressed in the death creativity, irreparable harm is caused to which life is dedicated.
2. The influence of alcohol on the brain is also expressed in a decline in morality and indifference to higher moral interests: indifference to responsibilities and duty, to other people and even to family members is becoming more and more obvious.
3. Under the influence of alcohol on the brain, the tendency to commit crimes increases, since the intoxicated brain has no moral guidelines and does not know what is good and what is bad; The character of a drinking person changes radically.

So let's start reading the articleFedor Grigorievich Uglovabout the effect of alcohol on the brain in particular and health in general. Please, friends, draw the right conclusions from what you read. Live soberly, and may there be peace and harmony in our families and our country.

Year of manufacture: 1983

More on the topic:

Lomekhuzy (book by F.G. Uglov about the dangers of alcohol) Trap for Russia (book by Uglov Fedor Georgievich) Captured by Illusions (1985 book) Suicides are those who use alcohol, tobacco and other drugs The Mystery of Acrid Smoke (cartoon) Secrets of manipulation. ALCOHOL Alcohol: the story of one deception (doc. film)
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The post was inspired by reading the first chapter of Fyodor Uglov’s book “Truth and Lies about Legal Drugs,” which is called “Alcohol and the Brain.”

I learned about Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov while listening to an evening program on radio "Vera". The broadcaster and the granddaughter of Fyodor Uglov discussed his principles of life and the rules of longevity. One of the most important rules was called complete failure from alcohol and tobacco. I really liked this program, I later listened to it again in the recording. I was also interested in Fedor Uglov himself and his works on the dangers of alcohol, because I myself am a categorical opponent of the use of tobacco, any alcohol, or drugs.

Meaning
"Alcohol and the Brain" - the first chapter of the book " Truths and lies about legal drugs". Here are the main points that it is not customary to focus on when drinking alcohol:
1. Drinking any amount of alcohol negatively affects the brain, impairing the functioning of the entire central nervous system. Yes, gentlemen who drink moderately, alcohol also affects your brain. Yes, Negative influence alcohol is much more pronounced in alcoholics, but there are no moderate drinking effects in terms of negative consequences.
2. The culture of drinking alcohol should only take the form of complete abstinence from alcohol. Everything else is of the same order as the culture of consumption of heroin, marijuana, opium, etc.
3. Free sale of alcohol is opened door into chaos, destroyed families, lives, nations.
4. Alcohol is a drug. Its effect on the body is similar to the effect of chloroform, ether, and opium.
5. Alcohol consumption leads to the disappearance of shame, justice, nobility, morality, fear and patriotism as very important forms regulation of human actions.
6. Prohibition laws of 1914 and the second half of the eighties of the XX century didn't bring to an increase in alcohol consumption, as is now commonly argued.
7. Increasing prices for alcoholic beverages is not an effective measure to combat alcoholism in the population. The most effective measure- restriction (prohibition) of trade in alcoholic beverages.
8. It is important for people to tell the truth about alcohol.

Conclusion
All the evil that alcohol causes to people has become so commonplace that its colossal scale is not felt. But the problem has actually reached monstrous proportions: there is hardly a single family where at least one close relative did not come under the destructive influence of alcohol in any form. I have personally seen enough such cases in my own family and the families of my relatives. Unfortunately, there was not a single case of miraculous healing; rather, on the contrary, everything inevitably led to tragedy.

The most win-win option for interacting with alcohol, tobacco, and drugs is to completely stop using them. This and only this will help save the life, physical and mental health of you and your loved ones, well, and the country as a whole, no matter how pretentious it may sound.

Fedor Uglov was born on October 5 (September 22), 1904 in the village of Chuguevo, Kirensky district Irkutsk region, which is on the great Siberian river Lena. Father - Uglov Grigory Gavrilovich (1870–1927). Mother - Uglova Anastasia Nikolaevna (1872–1947). Although his family of eight lived very modestly, his parents managed to give higher education five out of six children. When Fyodor expressed his desire to study, the father gave his son 30 rubles for the journey and a ticket for the ship, saying that he would not be able to help him in the future.

In 1923, F. G. Uglov entered the Irkutsk University. He continued his studies at Saratov University, graduating in 1929. After receiving his diploma, Fyodor Grigorievich worked as a local doctor in the village of Kislovka, Lower Volga region (1929), then in the village of Otobaya, Gal region of the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1930–1933) and in the Mechnikov hospital in Leningrad (1931–1933). After completing his internship in the city of Kirensk, he worked as the chief physician and head of the surgical department of the interdistrict hospital for water workers (1933–1937).

In 1937, F. G. Uglov came to Leningrad and entered graduate school at the Leningrad State Medical Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians. Among his first scientific works There were articles “On abscesses of the rectus abdominis muscle with typhoid fever"(1938), "On the question of the organization and work of surgical departments on the distant periphery" (1938). After defending his candidate's thesis on the topic “Mixed tumors (teratomas) of the presapral region” (1939), F. G. Uglov worked as an assistant (1940–1943), associate professor (1944–1950) in the department of surgery of this institute.

During the Soviet-Finnish War, Fyodor Grigorievich served as senior surgeon of the medical battalion on the Finnish Front (1940–1941), and during the Second World War - chief surgical department military hospital. He also operated during raids, in low light, in the piercing cold, saving dozens of human lives. Survived the 900-day siege of Leningrad. Throughout this time, he worked in the besieged city as a surgeon, head of the surgical department of one of the hospitals.

In 1949, Fyodor Grigorievich defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Lung resection.” Since 1950, he worked at the Department of Surgery of the First Medical Institute named after Academician I. P. Pavlov (now St. Petersburg State Medical University). For more than 40 years he headed the department of hospital surgery and created a large surgical school.

Fedor Uglov is considered a pioneer of cardiac surgery in the Soviet Union. He worked as director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Pulmonology. Author of works on the problems of esophageal surgery, portal hypertension, hypothermia in thoracic surgery, etc. One of the first in the USSR (1953) to develop methods for the surgical treatment of heart defects, he successfully performed complex operations on the esophagus, mediastinum, for arterial hypertension, pancreatic adenoma, ventricular aneurysm, for lung diseases, congenital and acquired heart defects, and aortic aneurysm. Suggested a number operational techniques and tools, for example Uglov's access - quick access To root of the lung for pneumonectomy: an anterolateral incision of the anterior chest wall with the intersection of one or two ribs. He is also the author of the invention “Artificial heart valve and method of its manufacture” (1981, 1982).

F. G. Uglov is a surgeon with a unique surgical technique; after performing operations, he was repeatedly applauded by many famous surgeons in the world. His monographs “Lung resection” (1950, 1954), “Lung cancer” (1958, 1962; translated into Chinese and Polish), “Teratomas of the presacral region” (1959), “Diagnostics and treatment of adhesive pericarditis” (1962) became widely known. ), " Surgery portal hypertension" (1964), "Complications during intrathoracic operations" (1966), "Cardiac catheterization and selective angiocardiography" (1974), "Pathogenesis, clinical picture and treatment of chronic pneumonia" (1976), "Basic principles of syndromic diagnosis and treatment in activities surgeon at polyclinics" (1987). He has published more than 600 articles in various scientific journals.

The world-famous surgeon, along with his medical activities, carried out extensive educational work. His first fiction book was published in 1974. "The Surgeon's Heart". She immediately won the love of the widest readership. The book was reprinted several times in Russia and translated into many languages ​​of the world.

F. G. Uglov - author of books "A Man Among Men" (1982), "Are we living our time" (1983), "Under the White Robe" (1984), "Lifestyle and Health" (1985), "Captive of Illusions" (1985), "From the Captivity of Illusions"(1986), “Take care of your health and honor from a young age” (1988), “Lomehuzy” (1991), “Suicides” (1995), “Trap for Russia” (1995), "A man is not old enough" (2001), "Truth and lies about legal drugs"(2004), “Shadows on the Roads” (2004), as well as more than 200 articles in art and journalistic magazines.

Back in the 50s, Fyodor Grigorievich began the fight for sobriety in the country: he gave lectures, wrote articles, letters to the Central Committee and the Government. His articles and speeches on radio and television remained in the memory of readers and listeners for a long time, notable for their sculptural, visible evidence, uncompromising judgments and conclusions. In these conversations, he will forever continue the battle for the lives and health of people - a battle that he fought at the operating table for more than 70 years with a scalpel in his hands.

Since 1988, Fedor Grigorievich has been the permanent chairman "Union for the struggle for national sobriety". His report at a scientific conference in December 1981 in Dzerzhinsk on the influence of alcohol on social life gave birth to the massive Fifth Temperance Movement in the USSR and the CIS, the leader of which he was invariably until last days own life. The selfless work of F.G. Uglov to establish sobriety in the country saved the lives and health of millions of our compatriots.

Awarded the title of Lenin Prize laureate (1961) for the development surgical methods treatment of lung diseases, Sklifosovsky Prize, First National Prize “Vocation” in the nomination “For Fidelity to the Profession” (2002), international award St. Andrew the First-Called in the nomination “For Faith and Fidelity” (2003), Prize named after. A. N. Bakuleva. Laureate of the competition “Golden Ten of St. Petersburg - 2003” in the nomination “For honest service to the Fatherland” (2004).

He was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, the medals “For Military Merit”, “For the Defense of Leningrad”, “Inventor of the USSR”, and the gold badge of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (2003). F. G. Uglov is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon in Russia and the CIS.

Fedor Grigorievich Uglov left us on June 22, 2008 at the 104th year of his life. Buried on June 25, 2008. The funeral service took place in the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

12 life principles Fedor Grigorievich Uglov

• Love your homeland. And protect her. The homeless don't live long.
• Love the job. And physical too.
• Know how to control yourself. Don't lose heart under any circumstances.
• Never drink or smoke, otherwise all other recommendations will be useless.
• Love your family. Know how to answer for her.
• Save yours normal weight, no matter what it costs you. Don't overeat!
• Be careful on the road. Today it is one of the most dangerous places to live.
• Don't be afraid to go to the doctor on time.
• Spare your children from health-destroying music.
• The mode of work and rest is laid down in the very basis of the work of your body. Love your body, spare it.
• Individual immortality is unattainable, but the length of your life largely depends on you.
• Do good. Evil, unfortunately, will happen on its own.

Books

Surgeon's heart-1974 This book, widely known in its time, is based on documentary material (in some places, only for reasons of tact, the author had to change the names). In it, Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov talks about his life and work, about the high duty of a doctor and every Person. A brilliant and courageous experimenter, a most skilled surgeon, he saved the lives of thousands of people. The book was published in Georgian, Armenian, Estonian and other languages, and was reprinted several times in Russia.

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Man among people- 1978 Notes of a Doctor - such a modest subtitle for this book. Academician F. G. Uglov shares his thoughts about the relationships between people in society, about lofty concepts honor, duty and love. The book was reprinted 3 times in Russia, as well as in a number of Union republics. It was read in full on All-Union Radio.

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Are we living our time?- 1983 If you are careless about your health, you can quickly use up your vitality, even if a person is in the best social and material conditions. And vice versa. Even with financial difficulties, many shortcomings, a reasonable and strong-willed person can save life and health for a long time. But it is very important that a person takes care of longevity from a young age... If a person’s life is filled with interesting and useful content, if a person observes basic rules of hygiene, work, rest and nutrition, often communicates with nature, does not smoke or drink, and is busy favorite activity, lives in a healthy family and everyday environment, avoids excesses, leads an honest open life and does not experience remorse, inner fear, engages in physical labor, hardens himself in winter and summer, then we can safely say that the life of such a person will be joyful, healthy and long. Nothing weighs on a person more and has a detrimental effect on his health than discord with conscience, his own unseemly actions, and black envy.

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Under the white robe- 1984 The outstanding surgeon of our time, Academician Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov, had the happy fate to be among those who do not limit themselves to easy, beaten paths, but are looking for new ways in the fight for the life and health of people. The reader of his book, written in the first half of the 70s, will certainly agree with the author’s conclusion: “Living beautifully means never, under any circumstances, losing your human dignity.”

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Captive of illusions- 1985 Fedor Uglov dedicates this book to a burning topic: how to protect human health, how to ensure that everyone lives a bright, full-blooded spiritual life, and does not lose themselves as an individual, as a creator? The author reflects on how to deal with the antipodes of our morality, lifestyle and, above all, alcohol consumption: he shows the grave consequences of this vice. The book is based on a lot of life material, interesting research doctors Stunning statistics and real-life examples are provided. In 1986, with minor additions, the book was republished under the title “FROM THE CAPTIVITY OF ILLUSIONS.” Completely reprinted in Roman-Gazeta (5 million copies). Translated into the languages ​​of a number of Union republics.

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Lomehuzy- 1991 Having experienced a period of some sobering and enlightenment, society again plunged into the darkness of alcoholic dope. The government and the central leadership of the party, abandoning any struggle for a sober lifestyle, approved an unprecedented “drunk” budget for 1991 in history. The country was brought to the brink of disaster economically, environmentally, and most importantly, morally. And all attempts to at least to some extent improve the situation in the country, while maintaining the same level of alcohol consumption, not only did not produce any results, but also worsened the situation. Alcohol turned out to be stronger than everyone else... This forced Fedor Uglov to take up his pen again.

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Suicides- 1995 Alcohol drinking and smoking are based on lies, which are presented to the people by the enemies of sobriety under any pretext. It's only worth it drinking man tell the truth about alcohol and tobacco, but tell it in such a way that he believes this truth, and the person stops drinking forever. This is the basis of the method of G. A. Shichko, which allows, without any drugs, without vows, but only with the words of truth, to sober up drinkers, stop smoking tobacco, etc. The purpose of this brochure is to tell people the truth about alcohol, and also point out individual examples false arguments with which the alcohol mafia most often tries to fool weak people and not let them out of alcohol chains.

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A man is not old enough- 2001 At sixty, life is just beginning! There is so much strength like I didn’t have in my youth. Run up the stairs, drive a car, get everything done on time. In the profession, wise with experience and complete creative plans, - you are on a horse. ABOUT family relationships It’s not customary to say, but the fact that a father gives birth to a baby in his seventh decade speaks for itself. And all this is not fantasy if you live as taught by F.G. Uglov, a brilliant doctor listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-operating surgeon in the world. From time immemorial people have been looking for the secret of longevity. Some went into medical experiments, some into magic, some tried to create greenhouse conditions around themselves. To all this Fedor Uglov says: “No!” - and gives his advice to those who do not want to put up with impending old age. After all, science has proven: we live much less than the time allotted to us by nature.

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2004 The latest book to date by Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov once again calls on readers to think, analyze the terrible situation that has arisen as a result of a catastrophic high level consumption of legal drugs in our country: “I see my task,” says the author, “to tell strictly scientific truth about what tobacco and alcohol are and what they bring to the people and the country. I hope that the reader will understand why the people live so poorly and how the mafia gets richer and fatter.”

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Reports

Medical and Social Consequences of Alcohol Use. Report at the All-Union Conference on Combating Alcoholism, Dzerzhinsk, 1981 (abbreviated). This report is considered to be the beginning of the modern, fifth sober movement, the honorary leader of which is Fedor Grigorievich Uglov.

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Appeals

Weapons against the nation(application from 1,700 doctors). We, doctors, professors and academicians of medicine, appeal to you with a request to discuss and make a decision on the official recognition of alcohol and tobacco as drugs, which have become widespread in the country, have caused and are causing enormous harm to individuals and society, threatening the very existence of our Fatherland as a cultural states...

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Video from F.G. Corner

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov 2004(amateur photography). The congress of all temperance movements in the country, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Academician Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov, took place in St. Petersburg on October 9-10. Delegations from many regions of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine arrived to congratulate the patriarch of the temperance movement. Warm, sincere words of congratulations were heard, Fyodor Grigorievich received a lot of gifts, and all his comrades-in-arms received an unprecedented charge of strength and vigor in the fight for the just cause of sobering up our people, our bodies, souls and consciousness.

I'll give you tomorrow"TV KOMSET", Stupino, 2004 TV company "TV KOMSET", Stupino. The program was created for the centenary anniversary of Fyodor Grigorievich. In it we see not only the savior of human hearts, but also learn about the work of his whole life: the struggle to save our people from the terrible social evil caused by alcohol...

Testament Fedor Uglov 2004 - the oldest practicing surgeon (from 1930 to 2004), who worked in all areas of surgery and was the first in the world to perform many fundamentally new operations, pronounces a monologue from the 100th anniversary of his own life.

Methodological materials and articles

Some paths to longevity. As a result of improving social conditions and the level of medical care average human life expectancy in Soviet time increased to 70 years. However, this period can be significantly extended. Academician Uglov outlines the main, simple and accessible ways to long-term active life. In addition to eliminating smoking and drinking alcohol from your life - bad habits, the harmful effects of which on health do not require proof - Fyodor Grigorievich recommends refraining from profanity and foul language, avoiding excess weight, and also observing the regime of work, nutrition, rest and sleep. A regime is not a burden, but, above all, a reasonable change of work and rest, cheerful work and healthy fun, a condition for the fullest use of one’s capabilities with minimal costs.

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Smoking and lung cancer(To help the lecturer). From brief coverage current state On the issue of lung cancer, it is clear that its incidence is growing from year to year. Data recent years on this issue there is no doubt that tobacco smoking is the number one factor in the occurrence of lung cancer and in its increasing frequency.

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Alcohol and the brain(lecture given on December 6, 1983 at the House of Scientists of the SOAN USSR in Novosibirsk). There is no disease that is not made worse by drinking alcohol. There is no such organ in a person that would not suffer from taking alcoholic “drinks”. However, the brain suffers the most and most severely...

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Lifestyle and health(To help the lecturer. 1985). Issues of longevity and human performance are covered. A person’s health is protected not only by doctors - it largely depends on himself, on the people around him, on the environment in which a person lives and works. The publication was recommended by the scientific and methodological council for the promotion of medical and biological knowledge under the Board of the Leningrad organization of the Knowledge Society of the RSFSR.

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Truths and lies about alcohol(methodological manual for club workers. 1986). In the course of cultural and educational work aimed at clarifying the truth about alcohol consumption, it is necessary to emphasize that the use of alcoholic “drinks” has a detrimental effect on human health, entails irreversible changes in his body and harms the entire society. In this methodological guide, Fedor Grigorievich Uglov touches on all aspects of alcohol consumption.

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Sober up! All scientists in the world have proven that any dose of alcohol destroys the brain and destroys its most perfect functions: morality, nobility, patriotism, selflessness, honor, conscience... At the same time, they are destroyed reproductive organs, And this means that not only the present is perishing, but also the future of man as a rational being...

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This article became a kind of repetition and addition to the famous report at the All-Union Conference on Combating Alcoholism in Dzerzhinsk, with which Fyodor Grigorievich laid the foundation for the modern, fifth sober movement.

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Right to motherhood. I would like to appeal to Russian women, to their minds, hearts, capable of great love: the future of the Russian people depends on you, more than on men! If you yourself stop drinking alcohol and direct all your will, mind, and energy to weaning men from this harmful habit, you will do, perhaps, more than the mothers and great-grandfathers on the Kulikovo Field!

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Where do the adherents of “cultural” wine drinking lead?. The spread of drunkenness, to one degree or another, was involuntarily associated with illiteracy and lack of culture of the people. It is known that drunkenness never comes to people on its own. It is, as a rule, propagated by those who profit from the production and sale of alcoholic “drinks.” The less literate a people is, the more predators there are who are trying to get them drunk and fool them...

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Robbery strategy - the enemy's fail-safe weapon. Facilities mass media, being in the hands of people alien to Russia and its indigenous population, they are bending over backwards to present our country and our life under Soviet power in black colors...

Fedor Grigorievich Uglov (September 22 (October 5) 1904 - June 22, 2008) - Soviet and Russian surgeon, writer and public figure, full member Russian Academy medical sciences.

Wife - Uglova (Streltsova) Emilia Viktorovna (born 1936), candidate of medical sciences. Children: Tatyana Fedorovna, Elena Fedorovna, Grigory Fedorovich. F. G. Uglov has 9 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, 2 great-great-grandchildren.

In 1923, F. G. Uglov entered Irkutsk University. He continued his studies at Saratov University, graduating in 1929. After receiving his diploma, Fedor Grigorievich worked as a local doctor in the village of Kislovka, Lower Volga region (1929), then in the village of Otobaya, Gali region, Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1930-1933) and in the Mechnikov hospital in Leningrad (1931-1933).

After completing his internship in the city of Kirensk, he worked as chief physician and head of the surgical department of the interdistrict hospital for water workers (1933-1937). In 1937, F. G. Uglov entered graduate school at the Leningrad State Medical Institute for Advanced Training of Physicians.

In 1949, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Pulmonary resection.”

After the start of the Great Patriotic War Throughout the 900 days of the siege of Leningrad, he worked in the besieged city as a surgeon, head of the surgical department of one of the hospitals.

Since 1950, Fedor Grigorievich has been working in the 1st Leningradsky medical institute(now - St. Petersburg State medical university named after academician I.P. Pavlova). For more than 40 years he headed the Department of Hospital Surgery at St. Petersburg State Medical University and created a large surgical school.

An outstanding surgeon, scientist and teacher, F. G. Uglov was full of energy until his last days. Working as a professor at the Department of Hospital Surgery of the St. Petersburg State Medical University named after Academician I.P. Pavlov, he conducted rounds and consultations with surgical patients, classes with students and young surgeons, and performed operations, many of which were unique.

On June 22, 2008, at 2:15 a.m., at the age of 104, the Great Son of Russia Fedor Grigorievich UGLOV passed away.

Books (12)

Collection of books

F.G. Uglov is the author of the books: “A Man Among People (A Doctor’s Notes)” (1982), “Are We Living Our Time” (1983), “Under a White Robe” (1984), “Lifestyle and Health” (1985), “In captivity of illusions" (1985), "From captivity of illusions" (1986), "Take care of your health and honor from a young age" (1988), "Lomehuzy" (1991), "Suicides" (1995), "Trap for Russia" (1995), “A Man Is Not a Century Long” (2001), “Truth and Lies about Legal Drugs” (2004), “Shadows on the Roads” (2004), as well as more than 200 articles in artistic and journalistic magazines.

Alcohol and the brain

Lecture by an outstanding surgeon of our time, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, author of 8 monographs and 600 scientific articles, who performed more than 6,500 operations and in 1994 was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon in the history of world medicine, having lived for almost 104 years, chairman of the Union for the Fight for popular sobriety.

Read on December 6, 1983 at the House of Scientists of the USSR SOAN in Novosibirsk. The lecture, based on medical research, talks about the destructive and irreversible processes in brain cells caused by alcohol consumption and the associated processes of personality degradation.

Are we living our time?

If you are careless about your health, you can quickly use up your vitality, even if a person is in the best social and material conditions. And vice versa.

Even with financial difficulties and many shortcomings, a reasonable and strong-willed person can preserve life and health for a long time. But it is very important that a person takes care of longevity from a young age...

From the captivity of illusions

Fedor Uglov dedicates this book to a burning topic: how to protect human health, how to ensure that everyone lives a bright, full-blooded spiritual life, and does not lose themselves as an individual, as a creator?

The author reflects on how to deal with the antipodes of our morality, lifestyle and, above all, alcohol consumption: he shows the grave consequences of this vice. The book is based on a lot of real-life material and interesting medical research. Stunning statistics and real-life examples are provided.

Lomehuzy

This - terrible truth about alcohol, which is hushed up by the media, but which everyone should know.

The book is devoted to a topic whose relevance has now reached its apogee: the “ninth wave” of alcoholism is once again rolling into the country, threatening the very existence of the nation’s gene pool. These are hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and defective newborns, many industrial accidents and road disasters, crippled destinies and ruined health.

Truths and lies about legal drugs

The book by Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov once again calls on readers to think and analyze the terrible situation that has arisen as a result of the catastrophically high level of consumption of legal drugs in our country: “I see my task as,” says the author, “to tell the strictly scientific truth about what tobacco and alcohol and what they bring to the people and the country.

A man is not old enough

At sixty, life is just beginning! There is so much strength like I didn’t have in my youth. Run up the stairs, drive a car, get everything done on time. In the profession, wise with experience and full of creative plans, you are on horseback. It is not customary to talk about family relationships, but the fact that a father gives birth to a baby in his seventh decade speaks for itself.

And all this is not fantasy if you live as taught by F.G. Uglov, a brilliant doctor listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-operating surgeon in the world. From time immemorial people have been looking for the secret of longevity. Some went into medical experiments, some into magic, some tried to create greenhouse conditions around themselves.

To all this Fedor Uglov says: “No!” - and gives his advice to those who do not want to put up with impending old age. After all, science has proven: we live much less than the time allotted to us by nature.

Under the white robe

The outstanding surgeon of our time, Academician Fyodor Grigorievich Uglov, had the happy fate to be among those who do not limit themselves to easy, beaten paths, but are looking for new ways in the fight for the life and health of people.

The reader of his book, written in the first half of the 70s, will certainly agree with the author’s conclusion: “Living beautifully means never, under any circumstances, losing your human dignity.”

Advice from a centenarian surgeon

Is individual immortality achievable? When can we expect victory over the major diseases of our time - from cardiovascular diseases and cancer to influenza?

These and a number of other issues are closely related. And in the end they come up with the question of how to live a long, happy and full of goodness and benefit life, how to avoid premature old age and violent death?

Academician Uglov tried his best to answer these difficult questions. long life. He lived to be 104 years old and became the only surgeon in the world to perform operations at the age of 100! So Dr. Uglov knows about the secrets of longevity from his own experience, which he shares with readers in this book.

An honest conversation about what prevents a Russian person from being healthy

Fedor Grigorievich Uglov remained a practicing surgeon until he was 100 years old. He himself did not drink or smoke, he was actively involved in sports - perhaps this is the reason for his longevity.

Hundreds and thousands of operations, great observation and concern for people - all this forced him to turn to a problem that was relevant in the 80-90s. and is still relevant today - to alcoholism.

Since today the Russian village, the Russian province, the Russian capital are DRINKING... How to stop this? Doctor Uglov knows, he sounded the alarm many years ago. Simple and useful recommendations a famous surgeon will help save your family and friends from alcohol hell.

Reader comments

DMITRIY/ 01/07/2018 I read and re-read several books by F.G. Uglova: “Lomehuzy”, “In captivity of illusions”, “From captivity of illusions”, “A century is not enough for a man!”, “The heart of a surgeon”, “Are we living our century”, “A man among people”. The books are wonderful! They can be very useful for a thinking person. I myself have not used intoxicants for 22 years. My wife and I raised sober children. They are now creating their own sober families. Sober people- these are adequate people. WITH with a clear look to what is happening. I think Fyodor Grigorievich’s contribution to sobering up society is invaluable.

Gregory/ 01/27/2016 Great truths have been written. My family does not drink alcohol, 3 healthy children, Happiness. Thanks to F. G. Uglov. If our people do not drink alcohol, then we will live well.

GALINA/ 01/26/2016 I READ THE 1ST BOOK BY FEDOR GRIGORIEVICH 15 YEARS AGO THIS “THE HEART OF A SURGEON” I’M STILL IMPRESSED BY IT BUT THE BOOK WAS NOT RETURNED TO ME Sorry I CAN’T BUY IT ANYWHERE TO ZHDANOV THANK YOU SO MUCH TO HE NAP WE WILL REMEMBER THIS AMAZING PERSON IN OUR PROGRAMS VISION

Dmitriy/ 10/15/2015 Not only did he provide an invaluable service to people through his work, working as a surgeon and saving their lives, but he also provided informational health by writing such wonderful books.

DONUT/ 07/31/2015 when I read from this author that there are 80 million alcoholics in Russia, I immediately realized that he had absolutely no knowledge of this topic.

Alkash/ 06/03/2015 Martin Buster, who ran a marathon at 101 and drank beer every day, also died at 104.

Albert Hofmann, who discovered LSD, took LSD until his death at 104.

Arthur/ 11/15/2014 I met this wonderful person through another equally wonderful person, V. G. Zhdanov.

Andrey/ 09/10/2014 Thank you for the fact that with the help of these books I got acquainted with the thoughts of this wonderful man, a surgeon. I have been living absolutely SOBRIE for more than 7 years. I spend all holidays without alcohol. I threw out all alcoholic utensils from my house (shot glasses, glasses, wine glasses ).Choose Sober Life.

Timur Republic of Kazakhstan/ 02/09/2014 10 I read and re-read a wonderful book from the captivity of illusions I don’t drink alcohol as a matter of principle 10 years after fully understanding the essence of this wonderful and great book I try to spread the principles of sobriety in society, although this is not easy, many do not fully understand the ominous role of alcohol in a person’s life, however in given time Young people, as far as I have noticed, rarely drink alcohol anymore, and this makes me happy.

Dmitry Budarov/ 02/13/2012 Great man...

/ 07/28/2011 Victor For Ruslan.
A nation is not a nationality

goka/ 03/25/2011 Thanks for the material!..
But HTML is a terrible format for books.

Olga/ 12/17/2010 Kakie zamechateljnie knigi, skoljko v nix mudrosti i dobroti.
Dazhe kniga o vrede alkogolizma - izumiteljnaja:chitaesh kak istoricheskuu knigu.

valentine/ 09/17/2010 I bow before this man. I remember how before “Perestroika” we avidly read photocopies of his works, and in many ways this was a discovery for us, especially since it was expressed with pain, with the heart and a specialist surgeon. And then I found out that I not only declared, but also followed my convictions and had excellent results. How great it is that the Russian land gave birth to such a Man.