Cheers! Drinking champagne regularly combats Alzheimer’s disease while boosting spatial memory, research shows
by: Isabelle Z.
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, July 02, 2016
If you were looking for an excuse to drink more champagne, we have some good news for you. Now you don’t have to wait for New Year’s Eve or your anniversary to break out the bubbly, as a study from a respected university shows that drinking champagne can help to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
The study was carried out at Reading University, where researchers discovered that a compound found in the grapes used to make champagne, such as Pinot noir and Pinot meunier, can prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
The scientists believe that the spatial memory improvements noted after consuming champagne are brought about by smaller phenolic acids in the beverage such as gallic acid, tyrosol, caffeic acid, caftaric acid and protocatechuic acid.
In the study, 24 rats were divided into three groups. Eight of the rats were given champagne, eight received a different bubbly alcoholic drink, and the remaining eight were given a carbonated soft drink in their feed. Over the course of six weeks, the researchers kept track of the rats’ ability to work their way through a maze to find a treat. It turned out that the champagne drinkers performed significantly better on this task.
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