Drinking alcohol every day can speed up brain aging by one week per session, according to a study of more than 17,000 people

Doesn't apply to me, I don't drink every day.  You doctor will use this latest study and the one directly below to insist you not have any alcohol.  

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My alcohol intake vastly increases my social connections and thus reduces my chances of dementia and is completely worth whatever risk it causes. 

Other benefits here: Don't do them, I'm not medically trained.Is your doctor?

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The latest here:

Drinking alcohol every day can speed up brain aging by one week per session, according to a study of more than 17,000 people

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• Researchers at the University of Southern California looked at more than 17,000 brain scans to see if daily smoking and drinking advanced brain age. 
• The study found that every gram of alcohol consumed a day aged the brain by 11 days. Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for a year aged the brain by 11 days.
• It is one of the largest studies ever done on brain aging and alcohol, making the findings quite robust.
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Over time, drinking a little bit more alcohol than recommended could accelerate the brain's aging process, according to a new study.
Though previous studies have found the same, most were tentative findings based on small groups of people or large groups of mice.
The new study, from researchers at the University of Southern California, offers a more robust estimate, reached by examining 17,308 human brain scans from the UK Biobank — one of the biggest sample sizes ever seen.