{"id":222380,"date":"2025-09-24T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/drinking-any-amount-of-alcohol-likely-increases-dementia-risk"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:42:10","slug":"drinking-any-amount-of-alcohol-likely-increases-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/drinking-any-amount-of-alcohol-likely-increases-dementia-risk","title":{"rendered":"Drinking any amount of alcohol likely increases dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drinking-any-amount-of-alcohol-likely-increases-dementia-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drinking any amount of alcohol likely increases the risk of dementia, suggests the largest combined observational and genetic study to date, published in <i>BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Even light drinking\u2014generally thought to be protective, based on observational studies\u2014is unlikely to lower the risk, which rises in tandem with the quantity of alcohol consumed, the research indicates.<\/p>\n<p>Current thinking suggests that there might be an \u201coptimal dose\u201d of alcohol for brain health, but most of these studies have focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/older+people\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">older people<\/a> and\/or didn\u2019t differentiate between former and lifelong non-drinkers, complicating efforts to infer causality, note the researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking any amount of alcohol likely increases the risk of dementia, suggests the largest combined observational and genetic study to date, published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. Even light drinking\u2014generally thought to be protective, based on observational studies\u2014is unlikely to lower the risk, which rises in tandem with the quantity of alcohol consumed, the research indicates. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}