Drinking wine daily may decrease your chances of developing dementia.

It is not by now that regular and moderate wine consumption is associated with health benefits, and the good news is now the result of research that sought to understand the effects of drinking on mental dementia.

For the research, mice consumed what would be equivalent to them to two and a half glasses of wine a day (doses between 0.5 and 4 grams of alcohol per kilo) - after 30 days of experiment, it was observed that The habit was effective in removing from the brain some materials associated with the development of dementia.

The animals also started to perform better in motor and cognitive terms. For neuroscientist Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, who led the study, the research showed for the first time that small doses of alcohol have potential benefits to the brain, especially with regard to the organ's ability to remove materials it no longer needs.

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The research made no mention of the type of wine used, nor did it say whether other types of alcohol, such as beer and vodka, would have the same effect.

It is worth noting that higher doses of alcohol have the opposite effect, since they disrupt the brain in terms of cleanliness. "Prolonged ingestion of excessive amounts of alcohol is known to have adverse effects on the central nervous system, " warned Nedergaard, in a statement published in the Daily Mail.

The original research was published in Scientific Reports, and more studies are needed on the subject. The recommendation, therefore, is not that you start drinking your wine glasses today as a medical treatment, huh!