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Posted on 09/26/2025 5:32:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Alcohol raises the risk of dementia regardless of whether people are genetically predisposed to the neurodegenerative condition, a large new study suggests.
It is the latest research to confirm that even moderate alcohol consumption can pose health risks. Despite the occasional headline about the benefits of low-level drinking, research has repeatedly shown that no amount of alcohol is safe for our health.
“For anyone who chooses to drink, our study suggests that greater alcohol consumption leads to higher risk of dementia,” Stephen Burgess, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said in a statement.
The study, which was published in the journal BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, included about 560,000 people in the United Kingdom and the United States who were followed over several years, as well as genetic data for about 2.4 million people.
In the first part of the study, researchers asked people how much they drank and then determined the relationship between alcohol and dementia risks. They also analysed genetic markers tied to alcohol use to take into account its cumulative effect over the course of people’s lives.
The higher someone’s genetic risks tied to alcohol, the higher their dementia risks, the study found. If someone had three drinks per week, for example, they were 15 per cent more likely to develop dementia than someone who had one drink per week.
“Genetic evidence offers no support for a protective effect [from alcohol] – in fact, it suggests the opposite,” said Anya Topiwala, one of the study’s authors and a senior clinical researcher at the University of Oxford.
The study does not conclusively prove that drinking alcohol causes dementia, only that the two are linked, cautioned Tara Spires-Jones, director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She was not involved in the study.
Which country in Europe is home to the continent's heaviest drinkers? However, “fundamental neuroscience work has shown that alcohol is directly toxic to neurons in the brain,” she added in a statement.
In one previous study using brain scans, researchers found that drinking one or two units of alcohol per day was associated with reductions in brain volume and changes to its structure, which may be linked to memory loss and dementia.
The latest study’s authors said their findings add to the growing body of evidence that cutting out alcohol could have serious health benefits.
“Reducing alcohol consumption across the population could play a significant role in dementia prevention,” Topiwala said.
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Alcohol kills brain cells, but only the weak ones.
I’m getting smarter every day!
The Cliff Clavin Theory!
Nice.
I don’t drink at all. But I do cook with wine and eat Pound Cake soaked in Rum.
Everything has positive and negative effects on the human body. Enjoy your life and pay no mind to these stories.
_Sips a bourbon on the rocks_
I’mmm in trouble...
Horizontal is in big trouble.
My oldest sister ended up with alcohol-induced dementia. She’d originally been in and out of alcohol rehab at the State Psychiatric Center in her younger years, and eventually ended up being permanently institutionalized for the rest of her life, passing at age 74.
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
One David Harvey will blow this study to a gazillion pieces!!
One of my few Tile Bosses for 43 years!! Dave Harvey was an Alcoholic the likes not seen by most!!! He started drinking booze EVERY DAY at the office by 11 AM. Everyone....Tile Suppliers, Contractors, General Contractors(The Top Dogs) Employees... Everyone knew NEVER call the shop after 11:30. Text book definition of Verbal abuse!!! He was an animal!! He is now 89 years old, and STILL is at the shop at 6 AM every day except Sundays... starts drinking by 11 AM and goes home drunk at 2:30PM...
He is STILL sharp as a tack!! Zero Dementia in Dave Harvey!!!
Thought I’d Share a Life long cause of one of my sources of mental trauma!!
...I regularly enjoy a couple of IPA beers after dinner....or before dinner....or after breakfast...or before bed...I can’t say any of that has had any ...... effect....affect...oh, darn...where was I.......
Well, I’m a goner then... But it’s been fun.
I am a lifetime teetotaler.
Started as a hostile act against my alcoholic, abusive, man hating mother.
Since probably age 19 or so I have never had a drink.
Trump, Mitt Romney and I are nondrinkers.
More evidence of supposedly smart people exercising their dumbassery.
Example 1: My fraternal grandmother began experiencing severe dementia about the age of 70; it killed her within 3 years. She never touched alcohol.
Example 2: My maternal grandfather - old country Italian - drank like a fish and died relatively young at about age 60. He never experienced any dementia, but he did suffer heart ‘disease’.
My point is that these studies are so poisoned - ahem - with bias that their worth is measured in the spectrum of gases they emit as they decay after being digested by the study authors forced to eat printouts of their - ahem again - crappy work.
Until the entire NIH grant approval process is overhauled - an agency still populated with covidiots responsible for plandemic policies/crimes - nothing will ever change.
For the record, this is the study from which they’ve done a full 180:
Prospective Study of Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Dementia in Older Adults
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/196197
Which is right or wrong? pfffffft
Well, refined sugar is bad for the liver, and sugar reduces the immune systems ability, so alcohol can have a similar effect. So if you’re having an issue with a damaged area or infection in the brain, it definitely won’t help your body fight it/fix it.
Trump, Mitt Romney and Frank Ballenger walk into a bar...
My middle name is Tanqueray. Still doing well. Family makes it to 86 then we die. My genetics prefer Juniper Berries and Tonic. Please add lime.
15% of people who die of breast cancer are men.
I only ever drank on weekends.
Trouble was my weekends were always beginning on Monday.
Me too. Who cares anymore? This world is gonna kill us long before the G&T at this rate.
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