Wine and Dementia Prevention

Humans have certain amount of brain cells which grow to the top amount at 25 years old and then gradually decrease due to diseases and aging. So the older, the easier to get the problem of amnesia. This is a natural aging phenomenon of human organism with growing ages. When amnesia problem gets more serious, people may forget things like eating or their phone number. This is called dementia. Dementia is classified as cured one and uncured one. The uncured one is dreadful and called Alzheimer’s disease. The patient of Alzheimer’s disease can not be cured even when they die. Mr. Ronald Reagan, the former American president, suffered from this disease.

A research group in France did a follow-up survey on 3727 elders with ages of 65 and above. Their result shows that the rate of getting Alzheimer’s disease for people who drank 3-4 glasses of wine every day is only 1/4 of that for those who do not drink . So daily and moderate drinking of dry red wine can prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

There is another type of dementia which results from stroke due to arteriosclerosis. Drinking wine can prevent arteriosclerosis so as to prevent the onset of this type of amnesia.