Dementia: Drinking wine can cut risk of brain inflammation
Small doses of wine can help the brain to 'clean itself'
But it also can flush it of toxins, including those associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Study leader Dr Maiken Nedergaard said: “This study shows for the first time that low doses of alcohol are potentially beneficial to brain health, improving the brain’s ability to remove waste.”
Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center in the US focused on the glymphatic system, the brain’s cleaning process.
It showed how cerebral spinal fluid is pumped into brain tissue and flushes away waste – including the proteins beta-amyloid and tau.