Even small amounts of alcohol may increase dementia risk, study finds

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  • Alcohol consumption, particularly heavy alcohol use, is linked to many health conditions, including an increased risk of dementia.
  • However, studies have suggested that consuming small amounts of alcohol might actually decrease the risk of developing dementia.
  • Now, a study has found that low alcohol consumption may not have the suggested protective effect.
  • The study, which used both observational and genetic analysis, suggests that any alcohol consumption may increase a person’s risk of dementia, with the risk increasing as alcohol intake increases.
More Here: Dementia: Drinking any amount of alcohol linked to higher risk
 
Well, I have drank probably more beer then fish have water....still kicking.

Wait, where am I?
 
i started at 12... crashed my first car at 17. The DWI from that cost me my savings $2000 .... and any decent job in the military. At 20, with a gaping headwound from another wreck I was taken to an AA meeting. It would nine more years and of hard knocks and several more cars, and a couple of suspensions before I finally quit at aged 29.
Now I'm 35 years drug and alcohol free. Doc said I had an enlarged liver at 24.
Now America's highways feel safer :)
I think I drove home from work drunk most nights. So statistically speaking 1000 nights driving drunk to 1 official DWI and a few wrecks says I was a smashing success.
 
It's not going to be the small amounts of alcohol giving me demtentia, more likely the telephone pole at 50mph that rearranged my face and screwed with my memory banks.
 
I haven't drank in a very, very long time. And I haven't smoked in at least 6 or 7 years....don't miss either of them really....and now, I don't understand how people can afford them.
 
At 45 yrs of age, my son-in-law had to have both hips replaced, then a few months later he had to have his pelvis fused together.
What's the cause you say, he's an alcoholic, his favorite is beer. Then he has been a smoker for yrs.
Between the beer, and the smoking, it has depleted his calcium in his bones.
I don't know how he's still going. Has he stopped any of those habits you ask? Nope not at all. :smash: