Study: Alcohol Can Boost Your Immune System

CBS News ^ | December 24, 2013 | NA

[neverdem]

ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – According to a new study, alcohol can boost your immune system.

Researchers vaccinated animals and then gave them access to alcohol. Researchers found that the animals that had consumed alcohol also had faster responses to the vaccines.

According to Medical News Today, the researchers hope this study leads to a better understanding of how the immune system works, and how to improve its ability to respond to vaccines and infections.

Researchers were able to show other data to back their findings. According to UCR Today, moderate alcohol consumption has long been associated with a lower mortality rate.

Moderate alcohol consumption boosts your immune system while chronic alcohol consumption leads to a suppressed vaccine response.

The difference between moderate and chronic is defined by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. They define moderate as no more than four drinks on a single day and no more than 14 in a week for men. For women, it is defined as no more than three drinks on a single day and no more than seven in a week.

According to the British Medical Journal, excess alcohol consumption is a worldwide problem. They report that around 4 percent of deaths are related to alcohol.

The study was published in the journal Vaccine.

[freedumb2003]

I will live forever.

[henkster]

I’ve read that you should drink a beer a day. I’m good until sometime in June 2038.

[ETL]

Everyone knows alcohol kills germs. But I guess it’s not as straight forward as that. :/

[Beowulf9]

and that is why I am so health conscious:)

[wku man]

I've always found that if I'm feeling a bit squishy in the stomach, a couple snorts of Maker's settles it nicely. Who needs Pepto?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

burp

[ETL]

Researchers found that the animals that had consumed alcohol also had faster responses...

[AlexW]

A liter of red wine a day keeps the doctor away.

[montanajoe]

The medical community in the USA has been more responsible than any other group for the erosion and many cases the out right taking of individual and both political parties have gone along..

Your MD wants to take your guns, your booze, your double bacon cheese burger, and you car after you get to be 70.

Sh*t I don’t want to keep any of these doctors..

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

When I was a drunk I never got the flu. When I quit I got a bad case of the flu. I thought I was going to die.

[SIDENET]

LOL.

Me, too.

[ETL]

[mylife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oilwusvq5SI

[Graybeard58]

I will live forever.

A claim I've made from time to time since I've been on F.R.

So far, so good.

[Graybeard58]

When I was a drunk I never got the flu. When I quit I got a bad case of the flu. I thought I was going to die.

People my age tell me what a fun decade the 60s was. I dont know personally as I was drunk that decade.

[ottbmare]

I've always found that if I'm feeling a bit squishy in the stomach, a couple snorts of Maker's settles it nicely. Who needs Pepto?

Wrong. Woodford.

[Zeneta]

The medical community in the USA has been more responsible than any other group for the erosion and many cases the out right taking of individual and both political parties have gone along..

Your MD wants to take your guns, your booze, your double bacon cheese burger, and you car after you get to be 70.

Sh*t I don’t want to keep any of these doctors..

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Always remember these Doctors are “Practicing” medicine.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I have a couple of decades like that also.

[The Cajun]

The very first sign of a sore throat, straight shot of vodka, swill it around for a minute or two.

Sore throat doesn't stand a chance, years of proof :)