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.
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My mom’s almost 94. Sharp as a tack. Never touched an alcoholic beverage in her life. NEVER.
WOW! I can see that this article has brought out some interesting defensiveness of alcohol use among the posters here. Alcohol, in moderation may extend life and health. However, I think most of you missed this statement in the article. ...”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.”... The key words are “Alcohol use DISORDERS,” which means alcoholism and addiction to alcohol. If you think alcoholic dementia is not a problem in alcoholism over years, then that is your choice. But, buyer, beware. Once this kind of dementia has set in, it is not reversible. I have seen it in the field of mental health and among my own family and friends. I hope and pray all you will be able to enjoy drinking in moderation for life and good health but some are prone to addiction and are at risk for all those bad things which come with it, which also brings that suffering to those who love them.
I suspect a little booze even each day is good over the course of a life for living long. That said, a little too much each day is a also a good way to turn the brain into mush early.
It’s not really that slippery of a slope if your drinking “pattern” eventually becomes more conservative. The limits you set for yourself must change as you get older. If you’re at a case and a half of beer every week at age 25, you’re going to want to be down to a case a week by age 40, and by 60 you should still be enjoying your beer at maybe just a half case per week, even if you knock back all 12 in a 6-8 hour period. At that rate of change, you will probably never even come close to physical addiction. However, if you find that you’ve become an increasingly mean drunk more than you’ve been a happy drunk, you might want to cut back a little and by no means should you switch to hard liquor...That shit’ll kill ya!
Moderate amounts of alcohol is beneficial to health. Large amounts of alcohol are deleterious to health. It is true.
It is looking at alcohol abuse and alcoholism not moderate or occasional drinking
Genetic predisposition is likely the greatest single factor. I’ve known some high functioning alcoholics who have done very well for themselves in life and I suspect they never truly sober up. That would kill most people. I’ve known others who seem to lose brain cells with every bender, you can just about watch them go downhill. Me, I spent a good decade hitting bars every day of the week, I think it aged me more than I would have otherwise but no medical repercussions thus far. I never did crave it though, it was a social thing for me, never kept it in the house. Did have a drying out period when I stopped that was not particularly pleasant, night sweats, had trouble sleeping. Lasted a few weeks.
Uhhh...just speaking for myself there. People are different.
...And keep the smoking down to a pack a week. That probably won’t kill you either. But then again...
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Largest study of its kind finds alcohol use biggest risk factor for dementia ------
The worst part is when you can't remember where you hid the bottle.
I find that study hard to believe, as I know people who never drank, who had Alzheimer’s. I know a diabetes study said it was a risk for dementia, however, the meds taken were suspect more than disease. Do you have link for that alcohol study?
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Statistical inference applied to groups does not preclude individual exceptions to statistical probability. I’m sure you do know teetotalers who had Alzheimers but what does that have to do with alcohol abuse correlating highly with dementia? Nothing, really.
These are the same kind of people who claim that even one drink drastically affects your judgement and perceptions.
Carrie Nation is alive and well and strutting her stuff as a MADD cow!
They shouldn’t waste their time on this but rather figure out the reason for the democrats mental illness.
“The worst part is when you can’t remember where you hid the bottle. “
Darn, then you just have to to the liquor store and buy some more!
“An inability to obtain tiswin was one of the reasons Geronimo and others left their reservation and attempted to return to the land of their ancestors”
The ancient Egyptians figured out beer and the American indians had tiswin and mescal. “Out of my cold dead hands”!
I live in a senior community. I know several people with dimentis. We go to dinner with them, none of them drink. The study is bs. Would be interesting to follow the grant money on this “study”, bet it would be more revealing than the results if the study.
Mom died last year, with dementia, never had a drink in her life ....
Misleading headline?
The article itself says use disorders i.e. abuse.
I think of that clear minded French lady who made it past 110 (maybe 120?) who also spoke of consuming one glass of brandy daily. At her advanced age, even if hypothetically she needed heroin to hang on I’d say get it to her by all means!
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