Drinking 2 beers / day causes premature degeneration of brain 6 years

Researchers found that people over 40 who drank only two pints of beer a day also face the risk of accelerating brain degeneration for up to six years when they reach retirement age.

In the first long-term study of this type, scientists from University College London tracked more than 5,000 British men for 20 years and discovered that drinking a lot of alcohol was the cause of the loss. Early damage to memory.

According to the researchers, men over 40 years of age who drink 2 beers / day may suffer memory loss six years faster than usual.(Artwork: Word Press)

According to the research team, moderate alcohol consumption, ie near a pint of beer or a large glass of wine a day does not affect memory, reasoning or problem solving.

However, gentlemen who drink near 2 beer jars or 2 large wine glasses / day suffer from the decline in information recall capacity, equivalent to an additional 6 years of aging. In it, the brain's "governance function" , including the scope of attention and reasoning skills, is also degraded faster than a year and a half.

Dr. Séverine Sabia, the head of the study, stated: "Most of the research evidence on alcohol consumption and the relationship between this behavior and memory and administrative functions of the brain is often based on groups. However, our study focused on middle-aged subjects and discovered that drinking more alcohol and beer is associated with faster degradation in all cognitive functions in men. gender ".

The team concluded that excessive absorption of middle-aged alcohol is more likely to harm cognitive aging, at least in men. So the advice of experts for men in the new year is to start cutting down the amount of beer and alcohol you drink daily to "safety thresholds" of a beer mug or a glass of wine a day.