Drinking Alcohol Could Be One Of The Keys To Living Past 90!

Looking forward to that drink tonight? Well, no matter what multiple conflicting studies have shown till date drinking in moderation has shown to be associated with living a longer life, affirms the most recent study.?

Living past 90 may come down to drinking a couple of glasses of alcohol a day, according to a study published by the University of California Irvine's Institute for Memory Impairment and Neurological Disorders.?

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The study was conducted on more than 1,600 nonagenarians (people between 90 and 99 years old) revealed that about two glasses of wine or beer a day was linked to an 18 percent drop in the chances of an early death.?

"I have no explanation for it, but I do firmly believe that modest drinking improves longevity," said head of the research Dr. Claudia Kawa, M.D, a neurologist at the University of California and one of the researchers in the study, in her speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Surprisingly, people who were overweight but not obese in the 70s ended up living a longer life compared to people with a normal weight or were underweight. "It's not bad to be skinny when you're young, but it's very bad to be skinny when you're old," added Kawa.

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Another revelation was that the people who spent two hours a day on a hobby were able to cut their risk by 21 percent. "These people are inspiring-they drink wine, drink coffee, gain weight, but they exercise and use their brains," Kawas said. "Maybe that can tell us something."

This isn't the first study that links alcohol with long life either. A 2015 study of people with mild Alzheimer's had previously found that moderate drinkers were less likely to die in comparison.

A more recent larger study in 2017 revealed that light and moderate drinkers were less likely to die from cardiovascular ailments in comparison to teetotallers. Red wine, for instance, is renowned for its anti-ageing benefits due to a compound called resveratrol.?

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Downing a couple of glasses of alcohol isn't the elusive anti-ageing magic pill that you've been waiting for. Rather people who drank moderately also have to be engaged in a healthy lifestyle to lengthen their lifespan. Beware, drinking more than a couple of glasses can instead end up damaging your liver!?