Posted on 02/21/2018 1:22:19 AM PST by zeestephen
Alcohol use disorders are the most important preventable risk factors for the onset of all types of dementia, especially early-onset dementia. This according to a nationwide observational study, published in The Lancet Public Health journal, of over one million adults diagnosed with dementia in France.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
"For early-onset dementia, there was a significant gender split.
"While the overall majority of dementia patients were women, almost two-thirds of all early-onset dementia patients (64.9%) were men."
Total bs
What? I don’t understand this thread. What’s going on? Where’s my JD bottle?
It goes on to say that of the 2/3 who are men that get it, 80% or Faking It so as to not have to have conversations with their wives and mothers-in-law.
My father has not touched a drop of alcohol in 40 years. Never was a big drinker in his youth, just beer, but even gave that up for his religious beliefs. He is 70. He’s had dementia since he was 60, progressively getting worse.
Yeah, whatever. Father died of dementia/Alzheimer’s and did not drink alcohol. Go figure.
My late father was a drinker and had dementia. I believe that anything that helps anybody stay away from this horrible condition should be heard.
“Of the 57,000 cases of early-onset dementia (before the age of 65), the majority (57%) were related to chronic heavy drinking.”
We could not solve the problems it created, but found some ways to deal with it, both for him and our family. If you’d like me to expand on this, please freepmail me.
And another new study credits alcohol for long healthy life!
That study credited moderate alcohol use for long life, whereas this one finds alcohol use disorders (fancy way of saying alcoholism) is the single largest risk factor for dementia. There’s a big difference there, the difference between a glass or two of wine in the evening or with dinner, and basically crawling into a bottle and pickling your brain.
There’s way more risk to your liver.
Neither of my grandparents were alcoholics.
And another new study credits alcohol for long healthy life!
I will drink to that!
Bigger chance to live to over 90 , with dementia?
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/drinking-alcohol-key-living-90-article-1.3829634
Temporary dementia for sure... Many people wake up without any knowledge of their actions during the previous night.
As for the long term... My grandmother drank her entire life and finally at the ripe age of 95 she began to suffer dementia... Was it the booze? If you’re lucky enough to make it to 95 who cares?
The most common cause of dementia has nothing to do with your diet or drinking habits, it has a lot more to do with living too long. People are not supposed to make it to 95 and a large percentage of those who do will obviously suffer from the effects of dementia like my grandmother did... And she lived until he was 99.
4 bad years, 95 good ones and no complaints. She enjoyed every Cesar that she ever drank.
Association doesn’t establish causation. The amount of alcohol consumed in France is among the highest in Europe, so that will contribute to the likelihood of finding associations with alcohol consumption. Still, the data deserve consideration, and I wouldn’t dismiss it without looking at the statistical methods they used and what controls they used.
There’s a video of Churchill taking a drink of water before a speech. The audience started laughing and then Churchill.
That was the way I read it as well. Moderate drinking: possibly beneficial. Heavy drinking: likely damaging.
But in neither case are they saying it’s the only factor, nor that they really understand the mechanism.
And just yesterday I read upon these very walls that alcohol, not exercise, is the secret to living past 90.
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