This is The Most Dangerous Age to Drink Alcohol, Scientists Say; 65+

 Well, I'll be there in 3 months and since they talk about excessive drinking it doesn't apply to me. There are way too many benefits I've identified. 

Like these.

Alcohol for these 12 reasons.

 

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  And this?

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And this?

Low, moderate drinking tied to better cognitive function later in life

But this Spaniard is my hero:

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However your doctor will use this one research to say,'no alcohol'. 

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This is The Most Dangerous Age to Drink Alcohol, Scientists Say

Almost all of us have made some mistakes with alcohol in our lives, usually when we were young and first getting a sense of how it affected us. You might think that when you get older, you're pretty much out of the woods. Well, think again: a new study published in medical journal BMJ has found that excessive drinking in older adulthood (65 years and up) can be incredibly damaging for your brain.

What's more, older adults are especially at risk of these negative effects during the pandemic. Study co-author and old-age psychiatrist Tony Rao writes in the Independent, "If we factor in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, older people in the 65-74 age group have shown the highest rise in [probable alcohol dependency]." Basically, we've been seeing an increase in excessive drinking among older adults this year, and it could be seriously impacting brain function. Rao adds, "What's more, alcohol now ranks alongside smoking and high blood pressure as a preventable risk factor for dementia." (Related: The One Vitamin Doctors are Urging Everyone to Take Right Now.)

Why the risk? Older adulthood is one of three "periods of dynamic brain changes" identified by the study—aka moments in life when your brain is changing and alcohol can do the most damage. As you enter old age, your brain starts to atrophy faster as your neurons become smaller and their component parts break down. When this is happening, drinking can start to do irreparable damage to your cognition. And it's not just binge drinking—the study points out that "even moderate drinking has been shown to be linked to a small but significant loss of brain volume."