What Happens If You Drink Red Wine Every Day?

Is red wine a guilty pleasure or actually good for you? Well, the research consistently suggests that if you’re a light to moderate drinker, you’re doing your body a favor. There are many reasons why antioxidant rich red wine is good for your body.

Let’s look at the ways in which red wine boosts your health.

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5 Red Wine Benefits

1. Brain Protection

Red wine is good for your brain, research suggests. Light to moderate wine drinkers have a reduced risk of various brain diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's 1.

Researchers credit the widely known resveratrol compound, along with other antioxidants in wine, for the beverage’s “neuroprotective” effects 1. These antioxidants stop brain cell-damaging oxidative stress and inflammation 2.

2. Heart Protection

Red wine protects your heart health in many ways. Research shows that red wine works to enhance cardiovascular function, keep your arteries from clogging, and reduce the risk of heart attacks.

A glass of wine can lower bad cholesterol, increase the good type of cholesterol (HDL), reduce blood clotting, and help blood vessels dilate more easily 3.

3. Boosts Immune System

Who wants to be sick? Viral and bacterial infections make you feel lousy, keep you from carrying out daily activities, and can even cause more serious diseases if they affect you for years.

Red wine boosts infection-killing compounds in the body like nitric oxide, immunoglobulins, and interferon 4.

Immunoglobulins are proteins that kill viruses and bacteria or tag them for elimination by other parts of the immune system. Interferon stops viral replication.

4. Lifts Your Mood

Heavy drinkers and people who don’t drink at all tend to have higher rates of depression 5. But light to moderate drinking, in the words of researchers, leads to “happiness, euphoria, conviviality and pleasant and carefree feelings” along with tension 5. It’s no wonder why so many people drink a glass of wine with dinner to unwind.

5. Protects Against Oxidative Stress

Free radicals can damage your body’s tissues, accelerate aging, and cause disease. These unstable molecules wreak havoc, but red wine has been proven to successfully fight them.

After consumption, red wine increases the antioxidant capacity in your blood and can inhibit inflammation that increases oxidative stress 6. In old and young people, moderate red wine consumption is confirmed to decrease oxidative stress and cause significant antioxidant protection 7.

Conclusion

Now that you know about all the good things that red wine does, you’ll enjoy your nightly glass even more. Relax, lift your spirits, protect your heart, and drink in the antioxidants. Your body will thank you.

Evan Burns

MSC in Nutrition

Evan Burns

MSC in Nutrition

Evan has years of experience researching and writing about the health effects of food and nutritional supplements.

He is especially passionate about nutritional pharmacology and the bioavailability, efficacy, and actions of supplements. He wants to spread knowledge about how effective diet and supplements can be at treating ailments and promoting well-being.

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