{"id":1493,"date":"2020-11-03T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tghd.flipside-staging.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2023-02-28T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:39:17","slug":"could-drinking-a-little-wine-or-gin-have-some-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theguthealthdoctor.com\/could-drinking-a-little-wine-or-gin-have-some-benefits","title":{"rendered":"Could drinking a little wine or gin have some benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Read this if you&#8217;re having a few drinks this weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Well if you can stop at just a few&#8230;then I have some good news for you. It turns out drinking a little wine or gin might not be a bad thing for your health, with evidence suggesting it may decrease the inflammation that can lead to heart disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a study with a group of men who had heart disease risk factors (e.g. type 2 diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol and family history), researchers found that having approximately 3 units (adjusted to their body weight) so for an 80kg man approx. 300ml wine or 80g gin reduced the expression of some pro-inflammatory genes, linked with heart problems (e.g. where the blood vessels supplying the heart are narrowed or blocked) 4 hours after drinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wine (Andalusian aged wine to be exact) had a greater effect than gin thought to be thanks to the beneficial plant chemicals in wine called polyphenols (more on those in my last post). What&#8217;s more, wine (more so than the gin) slightly reduced blood pressure and &#8216;bad&#8217; LDL cholesterol levels too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Full disclosure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That&#8217;s not to say the more the merrier! Participants had around 3 units of wine or gin, which is in line with the government guidelines (max 14units per week). This was also a pretty small study with only 39 men aged 55-80 yrs (no females!) and they didn&#8217;t take into account the effects of long-term alcohol consumption, nor other markers such as cancer risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Bottom line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Drinking alcohol in moderation CAN be part of a healthy lifestyle. But it really is about the amount (and likely the type too)&#8230; overdoing will absolutely have the opposite effect on your heart health and your mind. For some, abstinence is bliss and remember loading up on plenty of polyphenol-filled plants and fatty fish is the best-studied recipe for a healthy heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For those who have a sensitive gut, alcohol can certainly make things worse by affecting how your gut muscles move &#8211; topic for another post!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Want to check if you&#8217;re drinking too much? Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/drinkaware.co.uk\/tools\/self-assessment\">drinkaware.co.uk\/tools\/self-assessment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this if you&#8217;re having a few drinks this weekend&#8230; Well if you can stop at just a few&#8230;then I have some good news for you. It turns out drinking a little wine or gin might not be a bad thing for your health, with evidence suggesting it may decrease the inflammation that can lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-or-nutrition","category-myth-busting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Could drinking a little wine or gin have some benefits? | The Gut Health Doctor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguthealthdoctor.com\/could-drinking-a-little-wine-or-gin-have-some-benefits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Could drinking a little wine or gin have some benefits? | The Gut Health Doctor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Read this if you&#8217;re having a few drinks this weekend&#8230; Well if you can stop at just a few&#8230;then I have some good news for you. 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