Posted on 03/04/2022 2:48:47 PM PST by 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.
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I kinda like my old brain, compared to my young, impetuous idiot brain.
As an adolescent, I went to a psychologist...who ended up committing suicide. There is no proof our conversations had anything to do with it.
I think tobacco alone is less problematic than all the chemical crap big tobacco jammed into it.
I knew they were all crazy!
I saw this on a sampler decades ago:
If all be true that I do think
There are four reasons we should drink:
Good friends
Good wine
Or being dry
Or lest we should be bye and bye.
Not sure why I remembered it. 🤔
And yes, that is a true story.
I have three functioning brain cells. It’s why I’ve never drunk alcohol, for fear of losing one.
Tough decision, brain or heart?
Maybe if I drink 1/2 a glass of wine each night, they wil both fail together?
Or... I might get hit by a bus so I should eat, drink, and be merry!
Just in case... I’m going to set up a still on the back of my property underneath the old Norway pines. Just in case...
Jesus turned water into wine for a wedding celebration. There is at least tacit approval from Jehovah although I think we can all agree that some take it too far.
I’m content.
My brain was in pretty good shape 40 years ago.
LOL! Making us behave the way they want us to behave is the goal of the ego trip that they are on. They believe they know better. They don't; but, they believe they do. Also, making us do what they want us to do is a great power trip. Example: Covid
Yes, and the Bible has no shortage of condemnations of drunkenness.
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