Even as someone who loves lifting weights and vinyasa, I onlywishlifting my glass strengthened my biceps.
Are the health benefits of alcohol all just fake news?
But one thing that we actually know is a toxin to the body is alcohol.
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When your body breaks down wine, it releases toxins that damage your cells.
The more you drink, the more damage is done, especially to your liver.
This alone should be a reminder to be mindful of how often you down an entire bottle of cabernet.
Much of this research has credited resveratrol, a polyphenol found in grape skins.
Since red wine is fermented with the grape skins, red wine has more resveratrol than white wine does.
And those studies linking moderate drinking with reduced mortality due to heart disease?
They hardly prove that merlot will make you live longer.
First, theres the possibility of selection bias when we classify someone as an abstainer in these studies.
It would be more accurate to say these people are abstainers because they are not healthy.
Their poor health is probably not due to a lack of alcohol.
Abstainers are more likely to have other challenges that harm their health.
So what about drinking in your 20s?
And there’s the potential short-term risk of heavy alcohol consumption.
Which just might have something to do with those IQs.
More recently, though, headlines have warned about alcohol consumption increasing the risk ofcertaincancers, particularlybreast cancer.
Plus theWorld Health Organization classifies alcohol as a carcinogen.
Now that you know the risks, you decide if you wish to continue drinking vino.
People enjoy both dessert and wine, and many wouldnt want to give either of them up.
But wine, like dessert, is unlikely to make us healthier, and less is more.
Most experts say a drink or two a dayand not every dayis the way to go.
It’s important to put things into context, Downer says.
The headlines give this notion that if you aren’t drinking, you immediately should start.
But there are some limitations in the data and types of studies we can do.
The findings aren’t saying that if you don’t drink, you should start drinking.
But it’s not like you’re missing out on anything by not drinking wine.
Drink for pleasure and remember that wine isn’t medicine, Stockwell says.
But I’ll still enjoy a glass or two when I’m in the mood.
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