Red wine can save from the death of brain cells?

Everyone knows: excessive drinking is bad, because it harms health and, above all, the brain. However, it turns out that everything is not so simple. If you drink a moderate amount of alcohol, then not only will it not harm you, but it will also benefit.

This topic has long been controversial, and everyone already knows that red wine can be beneficial to heart health. Although some scientists are in a hurry to refute even this theory, expressing the opinion that to obtain a beneficial effect, it is necessary to drink too much wine, and this contradicts the initial condition of utility. Now scientists have proved that red wine can be useful not only for the heart and circulatory system, but also for the brain. How? It's time to find out!

How does alcohol affect the brain?

Excessive alcohol use can definitely harm your health, but researchers from the UK recently discovered that drinking a small amount of alcohol can be beneficial, especially for your heart. However, now it turns out that the positive effect of alcohol extends to other organs. A new study showed that moderate consumption of red wine can protect cells in your brain.

The essence of the study

In the study, scientists selected certain components that are present in the feces and urine of those people who regularly eat a moderate amount of red wine, that is, what remains after digestion of the wine by the gastrointestinal tract. Then they added these components to the human neurons, that is, the nerve cells in the brain. After they exposed these cells to stressful situations that would normally damage them or even kill them, imitating the stages of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, the researchers found that red wine metabolites protected neurons from death!

results

This demonstrates that your intestines play a very important role in protecting your brain. The exact composition of red wine metabolites is very important in the fight against the death of neurons, and it will depend directly on which beneficial bacteria that help to digest and assimilate food and drinks, live in your intestines. And the microflora of the intestines is affected by what you eat. That is why the research will continue, and during them it is planned to determine how a healthy diet can affect the health of your brain.