EP 76: Reader Question - Does drinking really prevent Alzheimer's?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Annie responds to an article titled “Moderate to Heavy Drinkers are More Likely to Live to 85 Without Developing Dementia” by breaking down the details from the study and providing her own research. Annie also addresses the headline culture that we live in that allows for articles like this to become sensationalized.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:19.8	Hi friends, it's Annie Grace, author of this naked mind and I have been sent an article
0:33.5	lots of times over the last 24 hours and the article is titled,
0:38.5	Moderate to Heavy Drinkers are more likely to live to 85 without developing dementia.
0:43.2	And whenever an article like this kind of comes out in the media, lots of people send it my way and say,
0:48.1	what about this? What about this? I know you talk about the health aspects of drinking,
0:53.2	but what about this article? And I want to say a few things about this and I've printed off
0:58.0	the, you know, the study where this article actually came from, the actual study, which is always
1:03.7	a good place to go if you are truly curious and just want to address a few different aspects.
1:09.3	Because articles like this are incredible. We live in a headline-based society, so things like this
1:14.8	just get shared and shared and shared. And, you know, the science of sharing is interesting.
1:20.2	People share stuff from very specific reasons. People share stuff for something called social currency.
1:26.2	They share things that they think will make them look good or smart or that will confirm behaviors
1:31.9	that they have that possibly they don't feel great about as a way of like cognitive, you know, bias,
1:36.9	like really getting into feeling better about things that they might not feel great about. And
1:42.2	everybody, you know, likes to share things like this. So this article has been picked up by all
1:47.2	sorts of publications shared over and over and over, which I find really interesting. And
1:52.6	interestingly about things like this, there are thousands and thousands and thousands of studies
1:58.6	about alcohol's harm on our health. And there's a handful of studies saying that alcohol
2:05.0	is somehow good for us. And some of these studies do have some interesting factors about them that,
2:09.6	you know, I definitely explore in my work. But what I think is interesting is if you look at what has
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