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Alcohol and the Benefits to Your Heart Health

After countless studies have been conducted on how alcohol affects our cardiovascular health, many extraordinary results have been discovered. Namely, how moderate consumption of alcohol actually helps our heart. There are numerous ways in which alcohol helps our heart, but we will merely be looking at the surface of what benefits drinking 1-2 drinks per day can provide.

As most of us have already heard, red wine has a very beneficial element that can help improve our health. Red wine contains polyphenol antioxidants which assist in fighting cardiovascular diseases as well as many other diseases and conditions such as thrombosis, or blood clotting.

Drinking moderately has not only also shown that it can help prevent blood clotting and blood clotters like fibrinogen; it also can increase your HDL cholesterol levels, which is the good cholesterol. In addition to these wonderful attributes, alcohol consumption in moderation can help alleviate artery stress spasms, increase insulin sensitivities, while improving blood flow.

Not only is it a good thing for individuals to drink alcohol moderately, but many doctors use alcohol in treatments for such things as improving artery walls in addition to alcohol’s healing attributes.

Studies have shown that those who drink moderately tend to live longer and healthier lives, as opposed to those who remain abstinent or are heavy drinkers, after reviewing the results. Also, tests have shown that those who drink alcohol moderately also help prevent heart attacks and/or the survivability of a heart attack. This also demonstrated that those moderate drinkers who did have a heart attack were less likely to have another heart attack.

In addition to heart health alone, alcohol has the ability to prevent strokes. However, it is important to remember that this is in reference to a moderate amount of alcohol regularly. Individuals who drink more than a moderate amount, such as heavy drinkers, do raise the bar and provide themselves with a higher risk of stroke as well as many other health risks.

There are many more benefits to moderate consumption of alcohol, as we discuss in other articles as well as at The Hangover Network website. But, as for alcohol and our cardiovascular health, it seems that alcohol is indeed becoming more and more realized as a preventative measure against many different types of diseases and conditions versus an alcohol free or heavy alcohol consumption lifestyle. Please remember that these statements are based on tests done by organizations and colleges such as Harvard Medical, The U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), World Health Organization, and The American Heart Association.



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