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.

[Bonemaker]

I’m safe..I only drink the hard stuff.😎

[Lurker]

So my brain is roughly 3 millennia old then.

L

[stevio]

That’s good. LOL.

[Equine1952]

More old drunks than there are old doctors.

[LibertyWoman]

I've read that smoking shortens my life
I've read that drinking shortens my life
So I've decided to quit reading

[Bonemaker]

[Equine1952]

Remember “ Whiskey for my men. Beer for my horses”.

[hoe_cake]

yes, the doctors died of their own indulgences.

I will never forget, in the 1980s, my doc who smelled heavily of cigarettes.

[daku]

Huh , what’s that you say sonny ?

[CJ Wolf]

The devil must have made tequila.

[CJ Wolf]

That dinner sounds yum, but I had it 2 nights ago. Nothing beats it.

[Olog-hai]

Temperance and abstinence are of course not synonyms; and a lot of un-Biblical ideas were behind prohibition.

This is out of UPenn, who has a sizable Muslim Student Association.

[Bonemaker]

It’s just food.😎

[sit-rep]

wheres humblegunner....

[M_Continuum]

I’m dead. Where do I send flowers?

[hoe_cake]

My Lean Cuisine doesn’t come close

[SecondAmendment]

So it looks like alcohol in moderation is very good for you after all ...

[BipolarBob]

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

I start off the day drinking and continue during the day so I don't have that night drinking problem.

[CJ Wolf]

I would think not. Lol.

[Equine1952]

The vulture said moderation my ass, I’m going to kill something.