In China, where wine culture is prevalent, many people believe that drinking moderately is good for the body. A crosstalk actor also publicly joked on variety shows: "Smoking, drinking, and perming are the three major hobbies in life."
However, more studies have shown that the harm of drinking to human health cannot be underestimated, such as common brain damage, cirrhosis , etc. WHO has announced that nearly 3 million people lose their lives due to harmful alcohol consumption every year around the world, of which the number of deaths from male drinking in my country is the world's largest, reaching 650,000.
Recently, Professor A. Topiwala, the Oxford University Institute, led a team and published an important study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, saying that alcohol can cause the length of telomeres to be shortened and directly accelerate aging, becoming another "vote" for drinking.
telomeres at both ends of the chromosome are considered by the medical community to be a key marker of aging. It will wear out as cells divide . When the telomeres become too short due to wear, the cells cannot divide again and even die . is therefore also called the "human life clock".
Oxford study, using participants' telomere length as a measure, analyzed the relationship between alcohol consumption and telomere length of 245,354 people in the UK biobank (UK biobank).
Scientists used Mendel's randomization research method, using the British standard, 1 unit = 8 grams of ethanol (alcohol), and a weekly alcohol intake analysis was conducted on participants with an average age of 57 years old. This new study, involving 245,000 people, is the largest analysis of the international academic community's correlation between alcohol intake and human aging.
Researchers found that participants who drank more than 29 units per week (equivalent to 5 cups of 500ml of 14-degree wine) significantly shortened 1-2 years compared to those who drank less than 6 units per week (one cup of 500ml of 14-degree wine), which means that the human life expectancy was significantly reduced by 1-2 years.
It is worth noting that in the randomized analysis, the standard of drinking 100ml per week was increased to 320ml per week, and the telomere shortening rate of the observed subjects was accelerated. In other words, the more you drink, the faster you get older.
"A drink may not be pleasant, but it will definitely hurt the body." Research from the University of Oxford shows that drinking just one glass of wine a day can also accelerate aging. According to the Lancet, the age group of 45-59 in Chinese men is the hardest hit area for drinking, with a drinking rate of 62%.
Interestingly, the joke that has been popular on the Internet recently, "A person has to soak wolfberry in a thermos" is also a true portrayal of this type of people. Previously, JD.com announced the "Consumption Data for 2022" which is a reversal technology product that has dominated the championship of major promotions all year round. Its main consumer group is between 36 and 55 years old, with men accounting for 62.76%, mostly concentrated in Guangdong, Beijing, Shanghai and other places.
is also the main audience for alcohol and debilitating products. In addition to teasing middle-aged men's " punk health preservation", this may indicate that the progress of modern biotechnology is expected to make up for the shortcomings of alcohol in human lifespan.
Take the above finished product as an example. Chinese Academy of Sciences once continuously supplemented healthy men aged 46-60 in a three-month experiment, successfully prolonging telomeres by 25%, which is equivalent to the human body being in its 20s. In addition, hundreds of studies from universities such as Yale University , Tsinghua and Peking University have confirmed that supplementing exogenous substances to experimental subjects has certain potential for extending the life cycle of in mammals and humans.
After mastering the aging code of life, he would "hold" the middle-aged man's money bag. According to JD data, the finished product has generated more than 5.1 billion market segment revenue in less than a year after entering the domestic market, with more than half of the consumption being created by male customers. If there are more than 10,000 yuan in the comment section, some users even purchase 20 bottles at a time, which means that they are only enough for half a year of consumption. The four-digit unit price sluggish technology seems to have become a necessity for middle-aged men to invest in time.
"A pot of turbid wine meets each other happily."In the promotion of alcoholic beverages, happy consumption scenarios are often set up, so that people are prone to ignore their impact on health. This time, Oxford University research clearly pointed out that drinking can accelerate premature aging of human body and sound a wake-up call for people.
In fact, with the advancement of health technology, there are more technologies such as gene therapy, cell recombination programming, which have made great achievements in solving the problem of premature aging in humans. In the future, it may become another dawn for wine lovers.
