Alcohol is good for your heart - or not?

[Ianc2]

Red wine is good for you. 20 g of ethanol will protect your heart. A study of 108, 000 people of age 24-97 , carried out over 14 years agreed. However there is always a but.

But .. it is not the case for people with AFib . As little as 12g of ethanol equivalent to a 330ml of beer, or a 120 ml glass of wine will make you 16% more likely to develop Afib, up to 28% for two drinks and 47% for 4 drunks. Chuck in obesity, high blood pressure and your stroke risk shoots up.

Xmas is over. You were going to be good, were you not?

Report published in the European Heart Journal. Information above reported by Ian Sample in the guardian newspaper 13 Jan 2021.

[The_Lord_is_with_Us]

You can get all the benefits of wine without the alcohol by taking resveratrol and grape seed extract. Widely available. I think one capsule is equivalent to the resveratrol and polyphenols in dozens of glasses of wine.

[Ppiman]

20g of ethanol would be toxic, I should think! Suitably diluted and imbibed in the form of a glass or two of a decent Haut Medoc would be entirely beneficial, however!

Steve

[Reidel in reply to Ppiman]

I really enjoy a glass of wine but have had to cut it out almost entirely and certainly never drink wine without food. It’s sets my PAF off and I think, though this seems weird and I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else, I seem to have a delayed reaction- it can be two days after drinking maybe two small glasses of wine that I go out of NSR. It’s happened on a number of occasions and I can’t think of any other reason that it’s kicked off.

[DKBX in reply to Reidel]

Same experience here with the delay of AF after alcohol consumption. It may be the byproducts of alcohol metabolism that are the culprit.

[Ppiman in reply to Reidel]

That’s interesting. Perhaps because the alcohol is digested by liver enzymes, it could be those that, much later, set off your heart? The body is certainly complex.

Steve

[Ianc2 in reply to Ppiman]

I have much the same response. If I drink red wine I also get red cheeks and look quite flushed. I had a dig around and there seems to be theory that there is an enzyme missing in the liver.

[Ianc2 in reply to Ianc2]

People who flush when they drink might have a faulty version of the aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) gene. ALDH2 is an enzyme in your body that helps break down a substance in alcohol called acetaldehyde. - Healthline. Best cure seems to be don't drink.

[Hidden in reply to Reidel]

Me too, about 24hrs later

[sdweller]

Red wine is particularly bad for afib, (compared to other alcohols), as the preservatives are a trigger for many.