Champagne could be good for the heart—and other lessons from a new risk analysis

 Absolutely impossible! Don't you follow research declaring alcohol has no redeeming value? So, your conclusions can't be correct! Here is what your doctor will use, no thinking required:

Safest level of alcohol consumption is none, worldwide study shows

The latest here:

Champagne could be good for the heart—and other lessons from a new risk analysis

Drinking champagne may be associated with significant cardiovascular benefits, according to a new study published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.[1]

The study identified dozens of lifestyle changes that may help lower a person’s risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Some of the changes—eating more fruit, losing weight—were straightforward, but a few of the research team’s findings were unexpected. Drinking champagne and/or white wine, for example, was linked to a reduced SCA risk. The same was also true for spending more time at a computer—though that may tell us more about education levels than screen time.

These findings all come from a new exposome-wide association study (EWAS) out of China. The study’s authors explored the UK Biobank study, focusing on data from more than 500,000 patients. They then looked for associations between SCA and 125 different modifiable lifestyle factors.

“To our knowledge, all previous studies on the risk factors of SCA were hypothesis-driven and focused on a limited number of candidate exposure factors grounded in previous knowledge or theoretical frameworks,” wrote first author Huihuan Luo, PhD, a researcher with Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and colleagues. “This might lead to publication bias distorting summary conclusions, and might increase the likelihood of false positive findings resulting from inter-related exposures. More importantly, the hypothesis-driven approach might miss important exposures or relationships beyond the predefined hypothesis. To tackle these limitations, a hypothesis-free, data-driven EWAS has emerged as a robust analytical framework for simultaneously exploring hundreds of exposures. This data-driven approach does not rely on previous knowledge, and facilitates the identification of novel or underexplored associations.”

Luo et al. identified 56 different variables that appeared to impact a person’s SCA risk. Making lifestyle changes based on these variables could potentially prevent up to 63% of SCA cases.

Spending more time at a computer, drinking champagne/white wine and eating fruit were all associated with a reduced SCA risk. On the other hand, negative “fed-up” feelings, greater arm fat mass, a higher BMI, higher systolic blood pressure and a lower education level were all associated with a higher SCA risk. 

The researchers did note that these findings must be examined closely. For instance, spending more time at a computer may not necessarily be helping patients—instead, it is more likely that individuals who spend more time at a computer are more likely to have more education in their background.  (I spend hours each day updating this blog, keeping me mentally challenged to stay ahead of your stroke medical 'professionals'! But that's not very hard to do, they don't follow or implement research. Why should they, it doesn't increase their pay package unless we finally get to pay for performance!)

Even with that caveat in place, however, it is clear that modifiable lifestyle factors make a substantial impact on a person’s odds of SCA.

“Our study identified a wide range of modifiable factors applicable to general population, and adherence to corresponding interventions could produce tremendous public health benefits,” the authors wrote. “Despite potential overlap among the population attribution fractions of individual risk factors, they might still be instructive because they might indicate the benefits of the risk factor itself, as well as its related factors.”

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in vino veritas

In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder referred to the "common proverb that in wine, there is truth.

On your own to take advantage of these. This is where you need a good medical provider to synthesize this into usable amounts per day. At the very bottom are the negative articles. I probably have more but that's enough for now.

Enjoy.

 

White wine:

The impact of white wine on your health

A paragraph, 'aged white wine?'

In another study, drinking aged white wine(You could ask your doctor the definition of aged, whites are usually not aged like reds.) brought about greater heart-health benefits than drinking gin. In fact, white wine helped to repair endothelial cells lining blood vessels(This is what COVID-19 damages), thus offering cardioprotection. It also decreased the presence of inflammatory cells and pro-inflammatory biomarkers.

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Red Wine

Man Dies Aged 107, Thanked Red Wine For Long Life - 3 liters a day, no water

Maybe you need the right type of red wine?

This is the red wine of choice for the longest living people in the world - cannonau

I tried this, wasn't very good.

Wine Kills Germs That Cause Sore Throats and Dental Plaque Says Study

Red wine molecule may slow Alzheimer's symptoms, study finds

This has the 1000 bottles of wine;

The new aspects of the study examined the cerebrospinal fluid of 38 individuals with Alzheimer’s. Half of the participants were given a placebo, and the other half were treated daily with resveratrol for a year. According to researchers, this amount of resveratrol equated to the amount found in approximately 1,000 bottles of red wine.

Or maybe a little less;

Resveratrol Moderates Alzheimer’s Severity

At the highest dose given in the study (2,000 mg resveratrol per day), you’d have to drink at least 400 bottles of red wine per day to obtain that much resveratrol—but in the study, that amount was represented by four 500 mg capsules per day.

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Or you can wait for this tomato:

Scientists Produce Beneficial Natural Compounds In Tomato - Industrial Scale Up Potential, resveratrol and Genistein

As a result of the research led by Dr Yang Zhang and Dr Eugenio Butelli working in Professor Cathie Martin’s lab at the John Innes Centre, one tomato can produce the same quantity of Resveratrol as exists in 50 bottles of red wine. One tomato has also produced the amount of Genistein found in 2.5kg of tofu.

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All the great things studies claim drinking red wine can do:

Ask your doctor if one glass of red wine a day can provide all these benefits

1. Lower the risk of breast cancer.

2. Raise levels of good HDL cholesterol.

3. Be equivalent to an hour of exercise.

3. Give you better sleep quality.

4. Prevent tooth decay.

5. Reduce plaque in your arteries.

6. Make you have fewer colds.

7. Help you lose weight.

8. Give you "gorgeous skin."

10. Aid digestion.

11. Enhance exercise performance.

12. Control Type 2 Diabetes.

13. Help you "chill out."

14. Reduce risk of depression.

15. Give you a longer life.

16. Increase diversity of bacteria in your gut.

17. Fight off cavities.

18. Stop bug bites.

19. Prevent memory loss.

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Wine as Food and Medicine

Need a reason to celebrate National Wine Day? Here are 5

Here's why pinot noir is the healthiest wine you can drink

Wine and cheese make you smart and healthy, according to new studies

Resveratrol appears to restore blood-brain barrier integrity in Alzheimer's disease

   

Benefits of red wine—health or hype?

This one has this sentence:

Furthermore, you would have to drink between 100 and 1,000 glasses of red wine daily to experience the health benefits observed in animal models.

But these negatives;

Put a Cork in It: Drinking a Bottle of Wine Per Week Is as Bad as Smoking 10 Cigarettes, Researchers Say

A researcher pooh poohs the idea of good stuff; In other words, I think coffee is in the same camp as red wine: the observed benefits are likely due more to the type of person who drinks it than what's actually in the drink.

A Little Wine Can Protect, But a Double Can Double Dementia

Very Popular Drink Linked To Brain Damage

 

The impact of white wine on your health

Your doctor will never tell you about this benefit, you'll get this instead. Of course you'll have to figure out the dose needed yourself. 

Safest level of alcohol consumption is none, worldwide study shows

Or maybe you prefer red wine:

Benefits of red wine—health or hype?

 

The latest here:

 

The impact of white wine on your health

Melissa Sammy, MDLinx | March 26, 2020

Red wine, a distinguished component of (arguably) the healthiest diet in the world—the Mediterranean diet—is often extolled for its numerous health benefits. These benefits are owed to red wine’s naturally occurring key ingredients: heart-healthy antioxidants, cholesterol-lowering polyphenol resveratrol, and anti-cancer polyphenol ellagic acid. But—what about white wine?

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Researchers have shown that white wine has its own unique roster of health-boosting chemicals and antioxidants that sets it apart from red wine.

Although not as extensively studied as its red counterpart, white wine does have some positive health attributes. In fact, some researchers have shown that white wine has its own unique roster of health-boosting chemicals and antioxidants that sets it apart from red wine.
So, whether you’re allergic to red wine, not a big fan of the taste, are searching for something light and refreshing for the warm-weather months, or just outright prefer white wine, here are five health benefits of white wine that may inspire you to pour a glass:
Heart health and metabolism. Researchers have shown that drinking white wine may improve cardiovascular and metabolic function. In one study, researchers randomized 224 patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes to drink either red wine, white wine, or mineral water with their dinners for 2 years to determine the effect of moderate wine intake. At the end of the trial, although red wine drinkers demonstrated the most improvements in lipid and glucose control, those who drank white also saw improvements. Plus, compared with those who drank mineral water, white wine drinkers saw no increases in blood pressure levels or decreases in liver function.
In another study, drinking aged white wine(You could ask your doctor the definition of aged, whites are usually not aged like reds.) brought about greater heart-health benefits than drinking gin. In fact, white wine helped to repair endothelial cells lining blood vessels, thus offering cardioprotection. It also decreased the presence of inflammatory cells and pro-inflammatory biomarkers.

• See Also: The healing powers of beer

Lung health. This is one area of health where white wine may have an edge over red. While white and red wine can both bolster lung function, white wine seems to have a greater positive impact on it.
In one study by University of Buffalo researchers, 1,555 participants were assessed for lifetime alcohol consumption, lifestyle habits, body measurements, and lung function. According to findings, wine drinkers had the highest concentration of protective antioxidants in their blood. Additionally, following an analysis of all alcohol intake variables with lung function, both recent and lifetime intake of wine had the strongest associations with volume forcibly expelled in one second and forced vital capacity. Interestingly, this association was stronger for white wine.
“Red wine in moderation has been shown to be beneficial for the heart, but in this case the relationship was stronger for white wine. We also have shown that both dietary levels and blood serum levels of antioxidants are linked to lung health and function. We think that the antioxidants in wine account for our current findings,” said study author Holger Schünemann, MD, PhD.
Renal health. One unique compound in particular—caffeic acid—may be responsible for white wine’s health benefits, according to researchers. For instance, in a study published in PLOS ONE, Italian researchers isolated and investigated caffeic acid for its purported antioxidant activities. Specifically, they assessed the protective effect of low-dose caffeic acid on oxidative stress-induced endothelial injury. Overall, low-dose caffeic acid—similar to the amount observed following moderate white wine consumption—may offer endothelial protection and reduce the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease.

• See Also: Wine before beer? Researchers test age-old adage

Cognitive health. Some researchers have shown that the unique antioxidants specific to white wine may offer protection against cognitive decline. For instance, in a study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, researchers extracted polyphenols from white wine and fed them to mice for 2 months to determine the impact of a white wine-enriched diet on the brain for Alzheimer disease-like pathology. At the end of the trial, these mice had lower risk of developing cognitive problems leading to Alzheimer disease.
Glycemic health. Like red wine, white wine may help improve cholesterol levels. In one study involving 146 participants with mild to moderate risk of cardiovascular disease who were followed for a year, those who exercised at least two times per week and drank wine―white or red―saw significant improvements in their LDL cholesterol levels.
As always, remember that moderation is key and to drink responsibly. Cheers!