Warning to middle-aged drinkers that just one glass of wine or pint a night can age your brain by TWO YEARS, study claims

UK Daily Mail ^ | 3/4/2022 | Joe Davies

[fruser1]

Drinking just a glass of wine or pint of beer each night in middle-age may age your brain by two years, a study claims.

Researchers analysed MRI scans of 36,000 adults to calculate their brain size, and then compared the alcohol intake of the volunteers.

Their results suggested a 50-year-old who drank one unit a day — the equivalent of half a lower-strength lager beer — would have a brain six months older than if they kept off the booze.

University of Pennsylvania researchers found the link grew even stronger the more people drank.

Middle-aged adults who consumed two units a day — one medium-sized glass of red or white wine — had a brain two-and-a-half years older, the data implied.

[fruser1]

I never knew I was older than Methuselah.

[MercyFlush]

By my calculations I’m approximately 1,462 years old.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I ain’t dead yet so what’s the problem?

[drSteve78]

Neither is my wife……

[oldasrocks]

Not drinking will age you faster. Imagine the stress.

[Dead Corpse]

Weird how decades of other studies show the benefits of moderate to light alcohol intake are now being pushed aside in what appears to be a global marketing campaign to make it seem like poison...

[humblegunner]

I must be about 75,000 years old.

[unixfox]

God made beer for a reason.

[deport]

Well when you get into your 80s is it beer, wine, liquor
or just plain old age?

[skeeter]

Don’t care how old my brain is as long as the rest of me looks sharp.

[LibertarianLiz]

Weird how decades of other studies show the benefits of moderate to light alcohol intake are now being pushed aside in what appears to be a global marketing campaign to make it seem like poison...

Yeah, that was my first thought. Wasn't a glass of red wine supposed to be very beneficial to health? I can't keep up with this stuff anymore. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us smoking is good for us.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Ditto

“Study claims” - Guaranteed to be followed by mounds of bovine excretions generated by leftist busybodies who can’t STFU about their hatred for normal people enjoying life

[Billthedrill]

Drinking just a glass of wine or pint of beer each night in middle-age may age your brain by two years, a study claims.

So don't drink just one glass. Apparently not two either. Problem solved.

[Flycatcher]

I don’t drink wine.

I gently imbibe it.

So I’m fine.

[Romulus]

Age is wisdom.

[Libloather]

After doing the math, my brain is now 763 years old. Bottoms up!

[blueunicorn6]

Just stay out of any bars named Middle Age.

[glorgau]

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

[LibWhacker]

They’re looking at brain size.

I must be the amazing Man With The Nanobrain.

[M Kehoe]

Wine is good for digestion.

Wine is good for the soul.

Wine is good for loosening the First up...

5.56mm